By Sameet Chavan
We inaugurated the festive week on a cheerful note on Monday and witnessed some hiccups in the initial two hours of trade. As we progressed, the buying interest emerged to slowly and steadily move beyond 17950. On the following day, we again started positively but failed to sustain at higher levels after retesting the psychological barrier of 18000. After undergoing a small correction on Tuesday, the subsequent session started positively and Nifty made one more attempt towards 18000. Once again we witnessed some nervousness at higher levels as the selling augmented in the latter half to pull the Nifty back to 17800.
We continue to remain cautious on the market because of few technical developments, they are as follows: 1) the ‘Lower Top Lower Bottom’ on daily chart got confirmed last Friday after breaking below 18000. 2) this coincided with the violation of the key short term moving average of ’20-day EMA’, which is now acting as a sturdy wall. 3) More importantly, if we take a glance at the monthly chart, we can see a formation of ‘Shooting Star’ pattern, which certainly does not bode well for the bulls.
Traders are advised not to carry aggressive bets on the long side as long as we remain below 18000 – 18100 on a closing basis. On the flip side, we may see this corrective move extending towards 17450 first and if things worsened then the possibility of sliding towards 17200 – 17000 cannot be ruled out. The coming week would be quite crucial for the market as it may dictate the near-term direction.
In the F&O space, we saw some open interest reduction in the Nifty; whereas, no relevant change was observed in the banking index. 18000 call options added a good amount of build-up; suggesting the market to face strong resistance around this zone. On the other hand, some build-up was seen in the 17800 put strike. Throughout the week, we hardly saw any relevant development in the derivatives segment. Hence, we would stick to the view of staying light in index and opt for stock-specific trades.
(Sameet Chavan is Chief Analyst – Technical and Derivatives, Angel One Limited. Views expressed are the author’s own.)
