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The Market Dashboard - a daily orientation

Indices, breadth, sectors, movers, FII/DII flows, and standout candidates on one page. The five-minute pre-market or post-market read.

What's on the page

The Market Dashboard consolidates the day's market state into one scroll. Sections, top to bottom:

  • Index snapshot — Nifty 50, Sensex, Bank Nifty, Nifty IT, top sectoral indices
  • Market breadth — advances, declines, ratio, new highs vs new lows
  • Cap-segmented gainers/losers — top movers split by large-cap, mid-cap, small-cap
  • Standout candidates — stocks where multiple signals are converging
  • Sectoral performance — every sector's day, week, and month return
  • FII/DII flows — provisional same-day institutional flows

It's not interactive analysis — it's a status report. Use it to orient yourself, then drill into specifics from the linked surfaces.

The 5-minute pre-market read

Run this sequence before the market opens:

  1. Index snapshot — did the global cues set up positive or negative? Compare against the previous close.
  2. Sectoral performance over the last week — which sectors have momentum into today?
  3. FII/DII flows for yesterday — did institutions buy or sell?
  4. Standout candidates — which stocks are entering today with signal convergence?

You don't act on this; you build context. The actual trade ideas come from the screener or the watchlist.

The 5-minute post-market read

Different sequence after market close:

  1. Index changes for today — what was the magnitude of the move?
  2. Breadth — was the move broad-based (most stocks moved with the index) or narrow (a few names dragged or lifted it)?
  3. Gainers/losers by cap — what led the move?
  4. FII/DII — were institutions buying into strength, selling into strength, or absorbing weakness?
  5. Heatmap (linked from dashboard) — visual confirmation of sector concentration

Again — context, not action. The watchlist tells you what you own; the dashboard tells you the environment you're operating in.

Standout candidates

The "standout candidates" section is the most actively-useful piece for stock-pickers. It surfaces stocks where multiple cross-signals are firing — strong delivery + volume spike + bullish stance + sector momentum, for example. These are not auto-buys; they're shortcuts to the screener-equivalent query you'd otherwise build manually.

Drilling down

Every section on the dashboard links to its full detail page:

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