{"id":16758,"date":"2026-02-19T08:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gwcindia.in\/blog\/?p=16758"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:17:26","slug":"pre-market-outlook-19-02-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gwcindia.in\/blog\/pre-market-outlook-19-02-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Market Outlook \u2013 19.02.2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Improving, But Not Convincing<\/strong> &#8211; The Nifty is showing signs of recovery with gradual higher lows, indicating improving sentiment. However, the momentum lacks strong follow-through, suggesting that buyers are still cautious at higher levels.<\/p>\n<p>Unless the index delivers a decisive close above the 25740 on daily basis, upside moves may continue to attract profit booking. On the downside, holding 25600 as day&#8217;s support is crucial to maintain the improving bias.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst neutral trends in major global indices, our markets are likely to open on a flat note. The index may continue to oscillate within the 25600 to 25900 range, with a Buy-on-Dips approach prevailing within this band.<\/p>\n<p>A decisive close above 25740 could pave the way for a positional move towards 26300 and higher.<\/p>\n<p>A break on either side of the range could extend the move towards 25500 on the downside or 26000 on the upside, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Sectoral Focus<\/p>\n<p>Metal, PSU Bank, Finance, Auto, Realty, Oil&amp;Gas.<\/p>\n<p>Stocks To Watch<\/p>\n<p>Hindustan Unilever, TVS Motor, Dr Reddy&#8217;s laboratories, Zydus Life Sciences, NCC, Cochin Shipyard.<\/p>\n<p>Strict stoploss discipline in all trades is advised.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing everyone a fruitful day!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gwcindia.in\/disclaimer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">*gwcindia.in\/disclaimer\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improving, But Not Convincing &#8211; The Nifty is showing signs of recovery with gradual higher lows, indicating improving sentiment. However, the momentum lacks strong follow-through, suggesting that buyers are still cautious at higher levels. Unless the index delivers a decisive close above the 25740 on daily basis, upside moves may continue to attract profit booking. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":16760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pre-market-outlook"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwcindia.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwcindia.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwcindia.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwcindia.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwcindia.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwcindia.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16762,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwcindia.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16758\/revisions\/16762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwcindia.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwcindia.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwcindia.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwcindia.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}