A Nifty close hides everything underneath it. We measure how many stocks actually participated — across 134 universes, every session.
When the Nifty closes green on 20 advances and 30 declines, a few heavyweights carried it. That is a narrow move — and narrow moves behave differently from broad ones. Breadth is how you tell them apart, before the index admits it.
"Forty-five stocks up out of fifty is a different market from twenty up out of fifty — even when the index prints the same number."
The advance/decline ratio and advance/decline line, the percentage of stocks above the 50-day and 200-day moving average (200 DMA), new highs versus new lows, and how far names sit from their own highs and lows — the core market breadth indicators, measured across the NSE rather than for its largest members alone.
FII and DII cash and F&O positioning, long-percentage in index futures, net exposure — and a participant index that reads today's positioning against its own year of history, so an extreme actually looks extreme.
Broad indices, official sectorals, thematic baskets and 91 hand-built sector universes. The same engine on every one, which is what makes comparing them meaningful.
Leadership mapped on a rotation graph in both price and participation terms — so you can watch strength move between sectors while it is still happening.
The handful of sessions each year where participation shifts decisively — broad thrusts and washouts across a universe. On an inconclusive day nothing prints, which is the point.
These are not technical indicators bolted onto a chart. They compress an entire universe — 500 names, 1,000+ names — into a single readable series, so you can see what the whole market is doing at a glance instead of scanning tickers one at a time.
“A thrust with seventy percent of the market behind it is a different trade from one with thirty.”
One line answers what a watchlist cannot: how many names are advancing, holding their trend, breaking out or breaking down — the whole universe, every session.
A shakeout inside a healthy market and the start of real distribution look identical on price. Underneath they look nothing alike — one keeps most stocks above their trend, the other does not.
Regime rather than headlines: how many names hold their trend, how far the median stock sits from its own high, where leadership lives. Structure shifts before price acknowledges it.
Short-term and momentum traders read participation to time entries. Long-term investors read the same internals for regime — is the market broadening into strength or narrowing into risk. One dataset, both jobs.
Institutional positioning and flow, so you can see which sectors money is rotating into and out of — rather than inferring it from price after the fact.
Each view turns a whole universe into one readable picture — the events, the rotation, the participation and the positioning that actually move the Nifty.
Leadership rotation mapped on participation, not just price — so you see where money is really moving, sector by sector.
The handful of sessions that shaped the Nifty 500 — marked on the chart, exactly where participation shifted.
Momentum ignition on the Nifty 50 — flagged only when the whole market was behind the move, not on every wiggle.
Rank every sector's internal strength at a glance, and see where breadth is quietly building or breaking.
How many stocks hold their 50-day and 200-day trend — the market's real footing, plotted against price.
Where the big money sits — institutional positioning read against its own history, so an extreme actually looks extreme.
Monthly, cancel whenever. Every plan reads the same data — higher plans simply see more of it.
Breadth measures how many stocks participate in a move rather than where the index closed. If the Nifty rises while most of its constituents fall, a handful of large weights are doing the work — a narrow move that historically sustains less well than a broad one.
You read market breadth indicators for the NSE — the advance decline ratio and advance/decline line, the percentage of stocks above the 50-day and 200-day moving average, and new highs versus new lows — across an index such as the Nifty 50 or Nifty 500. IndexBreadth computes all of them for 134 universes so you do not have to.
The advance–decline ratio divides advancing stocks by declining stocks in an index. Above 1 means more stocks are rising than falling — broad participation; below 1 warns that an index gain is carried by only a few names. It is one of the oldest and most reliable market breadth indicators. IndexBreadth shows the NSE advance–decline live — updated every hour through the session — free on every plan.
A screener answers "which stocks match these rules right now". Breadth answers "what is the market as a whole doing underneath the index" — and gives you that as a history you can chart, compare across universes and test against price.
134 in total — 20 broad and size indices, 13 official sectorals, 10 thematic indices and 91 purpose-built sector universes, each with its own constituent-level breadth.
Every trading session. The NSE advance–decline updates through the session, hour by hour — as live as breadth gets — and is free on every plan. Other daily internals land after the close, and the full hourly timeframe is on the plans that include it.
No. IndexBreadth is market-analytics software. Nothing on it is a recommendation to buy or sell any security, and it does not provide research or advisory services.
IndexBreadth is index breadth and market breadth analysis software for the Indian market. It measures the breadth beneath every Nifty and sector index — the advance decline ratio and advance/decline line, the percentage of NSE stocks above the 50-day and 200-day moving average (200 DMA), and new highs versus new lows — the market breadth indicators that tell you whether a Nifty move is broad or narrow — across 134 universes, at daily and hourly resolution.
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