In the MarketVision Chronicle, I’d mentioned a Bank Nifty trade with a stop loss of 11,000 (the 50 DMA). The Bank Nifty crossed it yesterday, and I realized that the stop loss was too close – just 1% away from Friday’s close.
Nevertheless I have exited half my position, and left the remaining on towards a more meaningful level, the last high at 12,000. Technical points to watch are the 200 DMA and the MACD turning over the zero line.
I got lucky, in a way – a couple of meetings yesterday didn’t allow me to trade, which is just as well, as the markets opened negative today and allowed me a better exit.
None of the fundamental parameters have changed. That is, there continues to be weakness, on the back of high inflation, slowing growth, worldwide turmoil. So this trade may be more valid when the technical strength ebbs. People say it is short covering or fresh buying or whatever – but I honestly don’t know what is real buying and what is short-covering. Remember, FIIs bought more than 1,400 cr. yesterday, which is something they’ve not really done for a while.
Game changers: it looks like the Greek parliament will pass their austerity bill. Regardless of protests, That should provide a fillip to bank stocks worldwide, and Indian stocks will go up alongside. The other thing is if oil prices continue to go lower (Brent is still above $100) and the monsoons are good, we might see a reversal in public policy towards inflation. (I mean public policy, not that inflation will fall; basically the good folks at RBI and govt. will ignore current data and rest on the belief that inflation will come down in future, and they will again be proved wrong, in my opinion)
