Nifty may get strong support at 4800 level

Once again consensus has failed in the market. The 4200 and 4300 put build-up, especially after a buy figure of FIIs in the index options segment, has raised many eyebrows. Shorting was certainly not advisable around 4800, as it was a strong support, but we didn’t recommend buying either. There was a strong wave of negative sentiments in the market, as even from a bounceback to 5100 during end-May didn’t result in a significant fall in implied volatility. Then, we had another 200-point fall and now back to 5100. But this time, IVs have fallen to 23.95%. These changes will certainly divide the participants on where the market is heading.

We still belong to the sell on the rise camp. In this bounceback, too, we are not seeing any meaningful formation of long positions or a significant cash-based buying by FIIs. There is still a lot of room in the form of open interest, at least in index futures to form fresh shorts by participants and still it won’t be in the oversold zone. We have seen a lot of selling calls of strike 5100 and 5200, which have not seen any significant unwinding in them.

This zone is a strong resistance. So, we won’t suggest any buying in the index now. Though not in the beginning of this series, but now, 4800 is emerging as strong support. As of now, it seems that the market may get stuck into the range of 4800-5200 and we are heading towards a higher side of the range. For next few days, we expect the market to consolidate and in this phase of consolidation, mid-caps and small-caps may outperform major indices.

Siddarth Bhamre, Head-Equity Derivatives, Angel Broking