🫀 Market Pulse
The exchange publishes an enormous amount at the end of every session — breadth, institutional flows, delivery, volatility, turnover — in a dozen separate files. This page reads all of them and says, in one score and a few paragraphs, what actually happened today.
Market Health Score
Each component is scored against its own history, then weighted (how many stocks participated 25%, how many are above their 200-day average 20%, whether institutions were net buyers 15%, how much of the volume was actually delivered 15%, where india vix sits in its own history 15%, new 52-week highs against new lows 10%).
This is a description, not a prediction. A high score means today's session showed broad participation, institutional buying, high delivery and calm volatility. It says nothing about tomorrow.
📖 Today's Market Story
The Nifty 50 rose 0.33% to 23,346. Nifty Midcap 100 and Nifty Smallcap 100 moved the same way, so the session was not confined to large caps. Bank Nifty +0.54%.
2,174 stocks advanced against 1,138 declining — an advance-decline ratio of 1.91. 58.6% of the 500 largest NSE stocks are above their 200-day average and 41.0% above their 50-day. 82 stocks made a new 52-week high against 10 new lows.
In the cash market foreign investors were net buyers of ₹600 crore while domestic institutions net bought ₹1,020 crore. Over the last five sessions the running totals are ₹600 crore (FII) and ₹1,020 crore (DII). Foreign and domestic institutions were both net buyers over the last five sessions — the broadest form of institutional demand.
44.65% of the day's traded volume was taken to delivery, above the 20-session average of 37.05%. That is the 98th percentile of the last 60 sessions — delivery share is a measure of how much of the turnover was positional rather than intraday. 25 stocks rose on unusually high delivery and 25 fell on it.
Cash-market turnover was ₹144,603 crore, 1.27× the 20-session average.
India VIX is at 11.39 (-7.36%), a calm reading and the 29th percentile of the last year.
Taken together the market health score is 77 out of 100 (Broadly Positive). It weighs participation, trend, flows, delivery conviction, volatility and new highs against new lows — a description of the session that just closed, not a forecast of the next one.
The session in numbers
Indices
Headline and broad-market indices for the same session.
| Index | Close | Change | Advances | Declines |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nifty 50 | 23,346.40 | +0.33% | 26 | 24 |
| Nifty 500 | 22,840.55 | +0.82% | 364 | 135 |
| Nifty Bank | 56,358.70 | +0.54% | 7 | 6 |
| Nifty Midcap 100 | 62,191.25 | +1.24% | 71 | 28 |
| Nifty Next 50 | 72,025.40 | +1.24% | 42 | 8 |
| Nifty Smallcap 100 | 19,875.70 | +1.74% | 77 | 23 |
The full section
Each dashboard takes one exchange dataset and answers one question with it.
Questions
What is the Market Health Score?
A weighted 0–100 composite of six things the exchange published today: how many stocks advanced, how many are above their 200-day average, whether institutions were net buyers, how much of the turnover went to delivery, where India VIX sits in its own one-year range, and new 52-week highs against new lows. Each input is ranked against its own history rather than a fixed band, and the score is withheld if fewer than four of the six are available.
Does a high score mean the market will go up?
No. The score describes the session that has just closed. It is a summary of participation and conviction, not a forecast, and it is not a buy or sell signal.
How often is this updated?
Once every trading day, after the close, from NSE's own end-of-day files. The date of the session being shown is printed at the bottom of every page in this section.
Where does the data come from?
NSE's public end-of-day publications: the security-wise delivery bhavcopy, the FII/DII trading activity report, the F&O bhavcopy, participant-wise open interest, bulk and block deal archives, the price-band report, the pre-open book and the index snapshot. Nothing here is estimated or modelled unless the page says so.
How to read this page. Everything here is a description of data the exchange has already published — it is not a forecast, a recommendation, or a signal to buy or sell. Labels such as "accumulation", "short buildup" or "support" name a pattern in the numbers, nothing more.
Flash Finance is not a SEBI-registered investment adviser. Exchange data is sourced from NSE's public end-of-day files and may be revised by the exchange. Verify anything you intend to act on against the exchange's own records.
Data as of the 2026-09-18 session · built 2026-09-20 22:25 IST · source: NSE end-of-day files and the Flash Finance technical snapshot. Figures are as published by the exchange and are for information only, not investment advice.
