​Market Trading Guide: ITC, ICICI Bank among 5 stock recommendations for Muhurat trading session

The Economic Times published a market trading guide naming ITC and ICICI Bank among five stock recommendations for the Muhurat trading session, a special one-hour exchange session traditionally held on Diwali. Recommendations of this kind typically transmit to prices through short-term retail and momentum flows rather than through any change in fundamentals, since the session is brief, thinly traded relative to a normal day, and often driven by sentiment around the festival. Large-cap, high-liquidity names such as ITC and ICICI Bank tend to attract the bulk of attention in such guides, making them the most visible candidates for intraday price moves and volume spikes during the session. Because the session's volume is concentrated in a short window, price action can be disproportionately influenced by a small number of orders, so the exposure is more about liquidity and sentiment than broader index direction. Traders may watch opening auction prices, early volume relative to the prior session, and whether the Nifty and Sensex hold their pre-session levels as the single hour of trading unfolds.

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