The first half of January 2021 looked very much like the final quarter of the last year.

Keep a close eye on India VIX as seasonality suggests we are in for a wild ride in January.

There seems to be no stopping the market bulls. The benchmark Nifty 50 on Monday hit a fresh all-time high of 13,597.50 mark amid relentless buying by foreign portfolio investors (FPIs).

As is said, one life is not enough to experience everything. But in the market it has proved to be otherwise. We started the year with the Nifty scaling to all-time highs,

All-time high is coming soon is what we had hinted in our last Nifty analysis and here we are today, the forecast having proven true.

Nifty recorded gains of 3.51 per cent in the month of October. While the first half of the month was pretty much dominated by the bulls, the second half of the month was impacted by the grim news of another round of lockdowns due to the rising cases of corona virus in other countries, especially across Europe.

Just as every dark night is followed by a bright morning, the Indian markets have moved out of the shadows after a witnessing a massive fall last Thursday.

A fortnightly view on Nifty 50 and two investment ideas on the basis of intensive technical analysis in a 15-day horizon.

There is an old saying on Wall Street that the market is driven by just two emotions

Technology-heavy Nasdaq was the first major US stock index to reach a record high after the corona virus-triggered plunge and in the true sense it was the Pied Piper that led the markets across the world to follow in its footprints.