Saturday 18 November 2017

Technicals for week ending – 17th November 2017.

Note : This is not a recommendation and I am not a registered analyst, these are just data points and an assessment of the positives and negatives from a longer term point of view.

Nifty Weekly

Chart 1 SAVED from a close below the support band. No change in short term risks – a close below the 10080-10120 band and inability to move above would indicate weakness. Basic super-trend and 40-week MA are in buy mode and near the 9700 zone. I do not want to be holding ETF’s under the 40-week MA. Most stocks seem to be hitting highs as only about 15% of the Nifty 500 stocks are more than 20% away from their 52 week highs.


Chart 2 Nifty total returns/10 year Bond index ratio is above its 40-week MA & momentum also favours Nifty index, indicating longer term outperformance for Nifty vs bonds.

Chart 3 Longer term intermarket strength as per the RS matrix back in Realty & Metals. They are a bit slow to signal so keep in mind the general conditions.

Chart 4 Pharma index is below its 40-week MA.

Chart 5 Avg. & Median distance of all sectors from their 52-week closing high is at -4.7% & -3.8%.

Chart 6 FII flows in Index futures segment is flat

Sector Momentum Update

Updating the short-term momentum model for the week ending 17th November 2017.



Saturday 11 November 2017

Technicals for week ending – 10th November 2017.

Note : This is not a recommendation and I am not a registered analyst, these are just data points and an assessment of the positives and negatives from a longer term point of view.

Nifty Weekly

Chart 1 Nothing new to add here. Since there is no resistance, so no point trying to pick a turning point as of now. As for short term risks – a close below the 10080-10120 band and inability to move above would indicate weakness. Basic super-trend and 40-week MA are in buy mode and near the 9700 zone.

Chart 2 Nifty total returns/10 year Bond index ratio is above its 40-week MA & momentum also favours Nifty index, indicating longer term outperformance for Nifty vs bonds.

Chart 3 Longer term intermarket strength as per the RS matrix back in Realty & Metals. Auto index has dropped a lot in relative rankings while IT has seen a marked improvement. They are a bit slow to signal so keep in mind the general conditions.

Chart 4 Pharma got walloped and closed below its 40-week MA.

Chart 5 Avg. & Median distance of all sectors from their 52-week closing high is at -4.1% & -2.5%.

Chart 6 FII flows in Index futures segment is net long but notice the zig zag in net positions since July-August. 

Sector Momentum Update

Updating the short-term momentum model for the week ending 10th November 2017.



Sunday 5 November 2017

Technicals for week ending – 3rd November 2017.

Note : This is not a recommendation and I am not a registered analyst, these are just data points and an assessment of the positives and negatives from a longer term point of view.

Nifty Weekly

Chart 1 Another week and another all-time high close. Since there is no resistance, so no point trying to pick a turning point. As for short term risks – a close below the 10080-10120 band would indicate weakness. As for what is going on under the surface, well.. seems stocks have joined the bandwagon.


Chart 2 Nifty total returns/10 year Bond index ratio is above its 40-week MA & momentum also favours Nifty index, indicating longer term outperformance for Nifty vs bonds.

Chart 3 Longer term intermarket strength as per the RS matrix back in Realty & Metals. Also, Realty index is closing at 6 year highs!. They are a bit slow to signal so keep in mind the general conditions.

Chart 4 All indices are now above their 40-week MA.

Chart 5 Avg. & Median distance of all sectors from their 52-week closing high is at -2.4% & -0.2%.


Chart 6 FII flows in Index futures segment is net long & clients going overboard in long put options.

Sector Momentum Update

Updating the short-term momentum model for the week ending 3rd November 2017.







Wednesday 1 November 2017

Monthly Update

Updated figures for the equity-bond rotation models as on end October’17.

Data set: Nifty Total Returns Index & S&P BSE India 10 Year Sovereign Bond Index

I first wrote about these here:



The Moving average model switched to Nifty total returns index in end January 2017
The Momentum model switched to Nifty total returns index in end February 2017

Stats: