Muhurat trading last 10 years data: Nifty 50, Bank Nifty, Sensex; what history tells amid Special Diwali session today

Livemint has published an analysis of Muhurat trading sessions over the past decade, reviewing how the Nifty 50, Bank Nifty, and Sensex have historically performed during the one-hour special session held on Diwali. The piece frames the current session against that record, using past index moves to contextualize what traders may expect from a short, low-volume window. The transmission mechanism here is largely sentiment and positioning rather than fundamentals: the session is held for symbolic reasons, liquidity is thin, and index moves often reflect a small number of participants and pre-festival risk appetite instead of a shift in earnings or macro expectations. Large-cap heavyweights in the Nifty and Sensex, along with banking constituents in Bank Nifty that carry the highest weights, are most sensitive to such thin-book price swings. The next concrete reference point for traders is the regular session that follows the Diwali holiday, where full liquidity returns and where scheduled domestic inflation and monetary policy developments will determine whether any Muhurat-session move persists.

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