Muhurat Trading 2026 Live Updates: Diwali Muhurat Trading 2026; check NSE, BSE and MCX timings, market outlook and key details

The Economic Times has published live coverage of the Diwali Muhurat trading session for 2026, detailing the timings for trading on the NSE, BSE and MCX exchanges along with an outlook for the market. Muhurat trading is a one-hour special session held on Diwali, traditionally treated as an auspicious window for initiating investments, and it typically carries low liquidity and thin order books relative to a regular session. Because participation is concentrated in a narrow window, price moves during the session can overstate sentiment and often reflect ceremonial positioning and retail flows more than shifts in institutional conviction. Traders should watch whether the session's closing levels hold into the next regular trading day, since that continuation, rather than the one-hour print itself, is what tends to carry information about near-term direction. The next concrete reference point is the first full regular session after the holiday, where volumes normalize and the exchange-published settlement and opening auction prices will reveal whether the Muhurat move was sustained.

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