Market Breadth & Situational Awareness of Nifty: Friday 31st January 2025

    

                        Market Breadth & Situational Awareness of Nifty: Friday 31st January 2025

Nifty today closed strong with a positive 1.11%.

Situational awareness or Market environment data still says that Nifty is in a downtrend for positional and medium term trades.

Strength and direction towards the right is still in the red. This shows that Indian market as a whole or not just Nifty 50 stocks lacks strength. Moreover, the direction is also not present to trade.

Medium and Positional term trends are also negative.

High data also suggest new highs are not being made. 

Short-term direction is positive. The short-term trend number has increased, suggesting stocks move up in the short term (2-3 days). 

Stocks have shown good thrust today indicating stocks moving up in very short term and short term strategies (holding period 2-3 days) might have minted money. 

Tomorrow we have Budget. I personally don't carry any trading position to the event date. 

To summarise :

Short term and thrust positive - Short-term trades can be taken as per strict risk management as long term environment is still bearish. Will take any position after the event (Budget)

Strenght + direction + highs + Medium trend - Swing trades with holding of week should be Avoided.

Strenght + direction + highs + Positional trend - Positional trades spanning between few weeks to a month should be Avoided.