Bullish view on Nifty and The Banking Sector!

Nifty 15 mins

We have been mentioning the importance of 5950 levels since past few days now. Nifty action in last 2 days again proved the importance of this level. On December 16^th Nifty made a high of 5956 and closed the shorter trading week at 5942. Nifty broke out of downward corrective channel (shown in red) in second half of last trading day of the week and moved up impulsively.

On very short term basis we do not rule out the pull back till 5920 – 5925 levels before Nifty finally break above 5950 impulsively. We think Nifty is now in a (i)-(ii), i-ii mode and should now show a 3^rd wave rally up which will be very steep. We might be early in making such markings before price confirmation but the 3^rd wave rally will not give us the opportunity to show it before it happens and it will take not more than couple of days for steep rally. The rally in last 2 days in stocks like Infosys, TCS, Tatamotors, etc is perfect example of how 3rd wave rally works. We would rather be early than to miss the best of the rally that looks probable now.

We remain strongly bullish on Nifty now as long as 5850 level is intact. Any move below this level will make us negative since the entire move up will then be only 3 wave but this looks to be low probable scenario as of now. A move above 6000 will strongly confirm our bullish view on Nifty.

Bank Nifty

Bank Nifty 60 mins

The Banking sector has been falling for quite sometime. We thought of revisiting this index and the vital Banking stocks to understand the overall trend of this interest sensitive sector. We have analyzed the Bank index and key stocks like SBI, ICICI, PNB and IDBI banks to understand if we are in for further fall or we can expect an impulsive move up with very appealing Risk Reward ratio.

Looking at the long term Daily chart above, we can see that we have probably completed wave (iv) of 3 with strong support of the lower trendline of blue channel. This makes the case that the multi-weeks correction shall be over in this sector for now. Also we can see alternative guideline as mentioned in Elliott wave principle. The 2^nd wave and 4^th wave correction alternates between Flat and Zig-Zag correction respectively.

Analyzing the short term chart on 60 mins, we can see prices have been moving within the bigger blue corrective channel. Prices broke out of the downward sloping red channel and took support on the upper trendline of the channel as seen on the chart. An upside break of 11650 level will provide first minor positive confirmation that we might probably have bottomed out on Banking index and sector as a whole with favorable wave counts as shown above. Crucial support level now lies at 11200 and a break here would lead to steep selloff across the sector.

Banking Stocks

Banking Stocks 120 mins

Banking stocks at a Glance: SBI, ICICI, PNB, IDBI

Daily Chart: From the glance of the daily charts of the Banking stocks we can easily make out that each of these stocks are lying very close the long term support upward sloping trendline from March 2009. We have shown the crucial levels on the charts for SBI, ICICI, PNB and IDBI stocks and the long term Elliott wave counting. It is sometime imperative for us to evaluate the long term chart patterns in order to give us the direction of the short term trends. Banking stocks as a whole have been the weakest sector after real estate in past couple of weeks. The move down on SBI and ICICI Bank looked impulsive whereas appeared corrective on PNB and IDBI bank. Looking at the long term chart we think the entire move down even on SBI and ICICI should only be a 3 wave structure since we still have upward wave 5 pending.

SBI and PNB have been moving excellently within the channel formed and the wave counts are very clear. On long term basis we expect prices to bottom out soon on the banking stocks and start next leg up. This view point is valid as long as prices do not break the lower trendline of the channel shown on all the charts and remain above the crucial levels marked on the charts. Also all the stocks lie very close to 200 days Moving average just below the trendline support levels.

On short term basis as shown on 120 mins charts we have shown the crucial support and resistance levels. A break of these levels on either of the charts will indicate a strong trend to unfold in that direction. As we said long term charts provide direction for short term trends we are positively biased now on the Banking stocks as a whole with very appealing Risk Reward ratio. The Risk of taking a long position is very less as compared to the Reward that we can expect.

From 120 mins chart we can observe that PNB is “relatively” the strongest among the batch of 4 stocks where PNB made a higher low when all other stocks were making lower lows. Also PNB tend to bounce back more than the other stocks on upside after a down move. Followed by PNB, IDBI is the next relatively better stock. Both of these stock lie close to their 50 period Moving averages whereas both ICICI Bank and SBI are far away from their 50 period MA. IDBI also has given an upside breakout of the downward sloping trendline and PNB lying close to its downward sloping line.

SBI is the weakest among the sector but is showing a very strong positive divergence on 120 mins chart. This does not consider it to be ideal candidate for initiating a long position but just indicating that this sector as a whole is bottoming out.

To conclude: The Banking sector as a whole is down but should be bottoming out near current levels. A break of crucial levels shown on Daily and 120 mins chart will result into multi weeks fall but that looks to be lower probability scenario now. We are bullish as long as these levels are maintained and the current structure offers the best Risk Reward ratio in favor of an upmove. We do not rule out the possibility that the down move in banking sector is just wave 3 of bigger correction but this looks low probability scenario and if we are correct on upside the Reward will largely overwhelm the Risk present currently.