Muhurat Trading Stock Picks 2026 for Diwali Special Session: HDFC AMC, SBI, TechM, 3 others | Upside seen up to 54%

Livemint has published a list of five stocks—HDFC AMC, SBI, Tech Mahindra and three others—recommended for the Muhurat trading session, the one-hour special trading window held on Diwali, with brokerage-sourced upside estimates of up to 54%. The transmission mechanism here is largely sentiment and flow-driven rather than fundamental: Muhurat sessions are traditionally treated as a symbolic opening of the trading year, and retail and institutional participation often rises on expectations of a positive start, which can lift liquidity in the names highlighted. Financials such as HDFC AMC and SBI would be most sensitive to domestic risk appetite and flows into mutual funds and banking, while Tech Mahindra would track IT-sector sentiment and currency-driven export margins. Because the session is brief and thinly traded relative to regular hours, price moves in recommended names can be exaggerated and may not persist into the following regular session. Traders should watch the first regular trading session after the Diwali holidays and the subsequent release of India's monthly macro data, including inflation and industrial output, to judge whether any Muhurat-driven gains hold.

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