Nifty Outlook and Trend for 18th Apr 2019

Medium Term Trend: ↑(Up)

Market update: Nifty had a very strong day today. It opened @ 11750 and went on to touch 11810 levels before closing at 11790 up 100+ points.

 

Nifty today registered a new high above 11760 levels and even crossed 11800 levels. This shouldn't come as a surprise to regular reader of this blog. We have been saying since last 2-3 days ( ever since Nifty failed to break below 11550 levels) that "even though Nifty upmove is appearing stretched there is a likelihood of Nifty attempting another shot at lifetime high and probably even crossing it". Today we got to see exactly that.

 

The entire fall from 11750 was looking like a corrective move and yesterday the downward trendline ( which was keeping the prices down) was broken on the upside on daily charts. We had changed the market trend to 'Up' last week on Thursday when it became clear that 11550 is not going to be broken even after 6-7 days of trying. Also, since last 2 days Nifty has been posting higher high and higher lows on daily chart ( which is a sign of strength). Today again we have another higher high and higher low.

 

So now that we have a new high in place, does it mean markets can continue to move up from here? Well the upmove can stretch a little bit more from here but keep in mind this entire move is still stretched (appears overbought and some amount of negative divergences has also surfaced today) and there is a possibility of a strong correction from here but as long the price chart does not show weakness it will be premature to assume that upside is done.

 

We had also been mentioning that entire move from lows of 10K levels shouldn't cross more than 300% time of previous move but now we have spent more than 300% time already and that means the entire rise from10K is not a corrective move of  previous fall (11750-10K) but a new leg of the existing pattern. This does change a lot of wave counts for long term (but nothing that should impact immediate or near term movement of Nifty). Will try to post new wave counts soon. 

Coming back to the near term movement, the Prices can reverse from these levels or continue to climb higher so the best strategy in such scenario is to keep holding longs with a strict stop loss. Once the correction or a trend reversal begins, the move could be pretty sharp trapping traders on wrong side hence trading on long side with a strict stop loss is recommended.

Current week is just a 3 day week and next one is expiry week, so expect lots of choppy moves going forward. Keep an eye on VIX, it has already crossed 21 which is sign and indication that high volatility days could be coming our way soon.

Happy Trading!