NIFTY goes long on Hourly
NIFTY faced very high short covering rally towards closing after staying indecisive for almost whole of the session today. NIFTY stayed within previous day's range neither breaching both high and low. Daily charts remain bearish and needs a close above 5060 to change direction. Weekly is in non trend, when the higher time frame is non-trending, whipsaw trades are likely on the lower time frames and that is what we are witnessing for the past few days on the daily chart. The running short trade on the daily has given back more than 50% of its gains from a 415 points peak profit.
Daily chart is in trend that is the reason we have had some good trades in the hourly chart. Though today, even there we have found to have some whipsaws. The spot/ future discount has narrowed to 15 points from more than 30 points, this shows high level of short covering taking place in the market. Not so patient traders are pulling away from the market while the smart money is waiting for direction after booking fat profits.
Bull/bear fight prolonged for almost whole of the session today, towards closing when Bulls defeated the Bears, Bears started running amok for cover and exit. The thrashing was so high that the Index gained big time volatility in the last 30 minutes.
Our short calls on both swing and trend systems were covered today, swing got covered with a small profit, while the trend trade got caught in the melee of the Bull run at close. We had to yield to a huge slippage of above 25 points.
Hourly charts have turned to long trade signal with a very strong rating. Trend positions can be traded above 5031.50 spot with a stop of 4971 on spot. Swing traders need to wait for some more confirmation, once out of trend our system needs more confirmation to trade into a new trend. There may be a lag, but the system trades after confirmation and gets out on the first instance of weakness. Those who have followed our thread in the past week might have noticed it.
This much for our markets today, but as we write we find Global markets still not showing any strength. We would like to note here that, of all the main global markets, our market can be rated the best in performance, we have out crossed China by a vast margin. This is great news for INDIANs. Exchange cheers and celebrate with sweets. NIFTY not being fully in line with the Global peers is an example for this.