Season 2, Episode 71 | 2026-07-01

24,000 Became Resistance. IT Hit a 3-Year Low. But Most Stocks Closed Green.

The biggest expiry of the half-year was supposed to lock the market onto 24,000. It didn't. The index touched it, lost it, and drifted down to settle at 23,865 | while underneath the headline, more stocks rose than fell.

Cold Open | The Expiry That Did Not Settle On Its Number

The biggest expiry of the half year was supposed to lock this market onto a single number. 24,000. Every desk in the country was watching it. Instead the index walked up, touched it, lost it, and drifted away. And here is the strange part. While everyone stared at a red screen, most of the market quietly went up. A red headline sitting on top of a green market. That is today's puzzle.

Global And GIFT | A US Tech Tailwind Into The Open

The world set the mood overnight. The US closed higher and technology led, the Nasdaq up about 1.5 percent, the S&P up 0.8 percent. That matters here because our own IT pack, the sector that just hit a 3 year low, takes its cue from US technology. Asia is mixed but firm, Japan Taiwan and China higher, only Korea red. Crude is calm, Brent near 73 and a half dollars, WTI near 70, and gold has slipped back under 4,000. The rupee sits near 94 and two thirds. GIFT Nifty is trading right at 24,000, about 140 points above Tuesday's cash close, pointing to a gap up open straight back at the level that…

The Money | Foreigners Selling, Domestics Buying

Through the back half of June one pattern held every single day. Foreign desks were sellers, leaning defensive in the derivatives market and paying up for downside protection. And every day our own domestic institutions stood underneath and bought. Three sessions in a row the home desks absorbed everything the foreigners threw at them. That domestic bid is why this market keeps drifting instead of falling. Tuesday's official numbers settle it. The professional desks flipped to net long futures and now hold options on both wings, positioned for a move and leaning up. The foreign desks pressed t…

Red Index Green Market | The IT Story

The Nifty closed at 23,865, down 80 points, about a third of a percent. The Sensex lost 250 points to 76,478. Read just those two numbers and you would call it a soft sleepy down day. But one layer deeper the story flips. On the same day roughly 2,250 stocks went up and only about 1,805 went down. The midcap index rose, the smallcap index rose a full one percent, and realty, consumer goods and autos, Maruti and Titan, all closed green. So how is the index red when most stocks are green. One word, technology. The IT pack fell 2.7 percent and hit a 3 year low, its third straight day down, as tra…

The Levels | The 23,800 To 24,000 Box

24,000 is now resistance, and it is more than a number. Tuesday the index reached 24,035, could not hold it, and slid back under. The level that used to be support is now the wall overhead, and it is a stacked wall, the single biggest cluster of call options on the board and the line where the market's own gamma flips. Below 24,000 the dealers are positioned in a way that amplifies every move, which is why the tape down here is choppy and two way. Reclaim 24,000 on a closing basis and that flips, the moves calm down and the door to 24,100 and 24,200 opens. Until a clean daily close back above …

The Education | The Index Is A Weighted Average

Here is the idea to take from today, because it saves you from panicking at the wrong moment. The Nifty is not a simple count of 50 stocks. It is a weighted average, and the biggest companies move the number far more than the smaller ones. A handful of giants, the IT names and a few large caps, swing the index while the other 40 odd members can be quietly rising and barely register. So when you see a red index, do one thing before you react. Check the breadth. Ask how many stocks went up versus down. Tuesday the index was red but more stocks rose than fell and the mid and small caps closed gre…

The Plan | Trade The Box With An Upside Tilt

This is Day 1 of the July series, the morning after the heaviest expiry of the half year, and there is no Nifty expiry today, the next weekly is Tuesday the 7th. Low volatility, fresh series, no domestic event, a range day by the calendar. But we open right at 24,000 on a gap up, so the first test is whether we reclaim it or get turned away. So I am trading the box with an upside tilt. Buy dips toward 23,800 where the support held, respect 24,000 as resistance until a close proves otherwise, and watch IT, because a US tech bounce there can carry the index back to retest 24,000 from below. A cl…

Highlights

Transcript Excerpt

A very good morning, guys. The biggest expiry of the half-year was supposed to lock this market onto a single number: 24,000. Every desk in the country was watching it. Instead, the index walked up, touched it, lost it, drifted away. And here's the strange part. While everyone stared at a red screen, most of the market quietly went up. A red headline sitting on top of a green market. That was yesterday's puzzle. This is The Tanmay Edge. You are listening to Episode 71. Let's go. Starting outside, because the world set the mood overnight. Overnight the US closed higher and technology led. The Nasdaq jumped 1.5 percent, the S&P added 0.8 percent. That matters for us, because our own IT pack, the sector that just hit a 3-year low, takes its cue from US technology. Dow futures are pulling back a touch this morning, but the tech tone is what counts. Asia this morning is mixed but firm on balance. Japan, Taiwan, mainland China all higher. Only Korea is in the red. Crude is still calm. Brent near 73 and a half dollars, WTI close to 70. The US and Iran agreed to halt and talk this week, and even though Iran spent Tuesday morning accusing the US of breaking the ceasefire, the oil price hasn't panicked. For an importer like India, crude in the low 70s is a quiet tailwind. It keeps fuel cheap and the rupee steadier. The rupee is sitting close to 94 and two-thirds. Gold has slipped back just under 4,000 dollars, the panic bid off the boil. And here's the setup that defines today, guys. GIFT Nifty is trading right at 24,000, about 140 points above Tuesday's cash close. That points to a gap-up open that puts us straight back at the level that broke. So today isn't really about whether 24,000 is resistance. It's about whether, with a US-tech tailwind behind us, we can reclaim it or not. The money, and who's positioned how. Now the part that matters: who is actually moving the money. Through the back half of June, one pattern held every single day. Foreign institutions were sellers…

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