🗺️ Markets

What Markets Is

Markets is the market-conditions layer of Finmagine — the place you check before looking at any individual stock. It answers three questions at once:

• What is the market doing today? — Overview tab, indices, movers, FII/DII net
• Which sectors and industry groups are leading or lagging? — Sector Heatmap, Trending Sectors, Industry Groups
• What are the structural signals? — Market Breadth (broad vs narrow rally), Shockers (volatility events), Technicals (pattern setups), Circuit (liquidity risk)

Unlike a news feed, Markets shows you quantified conditions — percentage moves, breadth ratios, net flow figures, and scan counts. This keeps your market reading factual rather than narrative-driven.

The Overview Tab — Your Daily Starting Point

The Overview tab loads first when you open Markets. It pulls a pre-assembled snapshot (updated periodically) so the page renders immediately — no waiting for multiple API calls. The snapshot includes:

• India Indices: Nifty 50, Nifty 500, and other major indices with today's change
• Market Verdict: A one-line characterisation of current conditions — e.g. "Broad rally — 73% of Nifty 500 above 200MA" or "Narrow market — only large caps participating"
• Top Movers: Today's top gainers and losers grid across NSE
• Sector Leaders: Which sectors are advancing most today
• FII/DII Net: Today's institutional net flow (positive = buying, negative = selling)
• Watchlist Pulse: How your personal watchlist stocks are moving today (requires login)
• Upcoming Events: Economic calendar events in the next 7 days

Below the data section, the Overview tab also shows the Market Tools card grid — quick links to companion pages that extend your market research:

All 11 Tabs at a Glance

Reading the Sector Heatmap

The Sector Heatmap is the most visually dense tab in Markets. Here is how to read it correctly:

Tile Size = Market Cap Weight

A large tile means that sector dominates NSE by total market capitalisation. Financial Services and IT are typically the two largest tiles. A smaller sector like Media or Textiles appears as a smaller rectangle. Size tells you how much that sector's performance matters to the overall index.

Tile Colour = Selected Metric

Use the metric toggle above the heatmap to switch between:

• 1Y Price CAGR — how the sector has performed over the last 12 months (default)
• 3Y Price CAGR — medium-term sector momentum
• 5Y Price CAGR — long-term structural winners vs underperformers
• Avg Health Score — average Finmagine fundamental health score across the sector's companies

Sector Summary Table

Below the heatmap tiles, a sortable table shows all sectors with their company count, total market cap, and all four performance metrics side by side. Sort by any column — for example, sort by 3Y CAGR descending to find sectors with sustained multi-year outperformance.

Clicking a Sector Tile

Clicking any sector tile opens the Screener pre-filtered for that sector. From there you can apply additional filters (ROCE, PE, D/E, etc.) to find the best individual stocks within the outperforming sector.

Reading Market Breadth

Market Breadth answers the question: "Is this a broad market rally or a narrow one driven by a few large caps?" The breadth grid shows the percentage of stocks in each index that are trading above their moving averages:

• Green (≥ 70%): Broad strength — the majority of stocks in that index are in an uptrend above that moving average
• Yellow (40–70%): Mixed conditions — some stocks leading, others lagging or in correction
• Red (< 40%): Broad weakness — most stocks are below that average, suggesting a market-wide pullback

Understanding FII / DII Flows

The FII/DII tab shows institutional money flow in the NSE equity segment — one of the most-watched data points by Indian equity investors:

• FII (Foreign Institutional Investors): Global funds, overseas portfolio investors, hedge funds. FII selling pressure can create downside even when domestic fundamentals are strong. FII buying often signals macro confidence in India.
• DII (Domestic Institutional Investors): Mutual funds, insurance companies (LIC, SBI Life, etc.), pension funds. DII flows are typically counter-cyclical — they tend to buy when FII is selling, which is why Indian markets have been more resilient in recent years.

Three Sub-Tabs

• Daily: Last 30 trading sessions. Look for multi-day trends rather than single-day spikes.
• Monthly: Aggregated monthly net. Useful for understanding multi-month rotation — e.g. 3 consecutive months of FII selling is a more meaningful signal than a single large day.
• Yearly: Annual totals. Context for whether this year's FII activity is unusually high or low vs historical norms.

Technicals, Shockers, and Circuit

Technicals Tab — Pattern Scans

The Technicals tab surfaces stocks that match specific technical chart patterns or indicator conditions across the entire NSE universe:

• 52-Week Highs: Stocks making new 52-week highs — often the strongest relative strength candidates
• Stage 2 Breakouts: Stocks emerging from a base into an uptrend (Weinstein Stage 2 criteria)
• RSI Extremes: Overbought (>70) and oversold (<30) readings
• Golden Cross / Death Cross: 50MA crossing above or below 200MA — long-term trend change signals

Finmagine combines these technical signals with fundamental quality filters — so the Technicals tab biases toward stocks with decent business quality meeting a technical setup, rather than including every junk stock that crosses an SMA.

Shockers Tab — Today's Outliers

Shockers shows stocks with unusually large price moves today relative to their normal daily range. These are stocks that something happened to — results, regulatory news, management change, analyst upgrade. Two use cases:

• Post-result opportunities: A quality stock down 8% on a quarterly miss that doesn't change the long-term thesis
• Momentum traps: A weak-fundamental stock up 15% on short-covering or rumour — beware chasing

Circuit Tab — Liquidity Risk

When a stock is at its circuit limit, normal price discovery is suspended for the day. Upper circuit stocks cannot trade above that price; lower circuit stocks cannot trade below. The risk:

• Upper circuit: You may not be able to buy more at a "reasonable" price. Many retail investors chase upper circuit stocks, which creates a gap-up-and-fade pattern when circuits open.
• Lower circuit: You may not be able to sell at the quoted price. If you hold a stock that hits lower circuit multiple sessions in a row, your position can be trapped.

Top-Down Workflow: Markets → Screener → Stock

The intended flow through Finmagine's tools is top-down:

1. Markets: Sector Heatmap — Identify which sectors have 3Y price CAGR > 15% and Avg Health Score > 6. These are sectors with strong long-run performance and good fundamental quality.
2. Markets: Trending Sectors — Cross-check whether those same sectors show high participation breadth (% of member stocks with positive 1Y returns). High breadth = sector-wide tailwind, not just one heavyweight.
3. Screener — Click the sector tile (or use Screener directly with sector filter). Apply quality filters: ROCE > 15%, D/E < 0.5, revenue growth > 12%. This narrows the sector's stocks to fundamentally strong candidates.
4. Stock Page — Open each candidate and review the Overview tab (latest quarterly results, health score, valuation ratios) and the AI Advisor tab for a structured investment thesis.

Access Tiers

All 11 tabs in Markets are publicly accessible — you do not need to be logged in to view sector heatmap, FII/DII data, market breadth, or any other tab. The only feature that personalises to your account is the Watchlist Pulse on the Overview tab, which shows how your personal watchlist stocks are moving today (requires login).

Individual Tab Deep Dives

This hub guide covers all 11 tabs at a glance. Each tab also has its own dedicated guide with deeper explanations of every column, signal, and workflow: