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Nifty is trading below the 24,000 level it lost last week, and the near-term tape still reads corrective -- support that held for weeks is now acting as a ceiling on bounce attempts. Wall Street houses are talking up a much higher Nifty by year-end, but that's a story for later; right now I'm respecting the breakdown, not the forecast.

Nifty is testing the 24,000 line and the tape reads corrective — bounce attempts have failed to hold, and a decisive break below opens the door toward 23,800. I'm siding with the sellers here until buyers actually show up in size.

Nifty broke below the 24,000 level that's held for weeks, dragged down by rising oil prices and fresh worries about a US rate hike -- the kind of external pressure that finally tips this choppy range into a real decline. After weeks of calling this a genuine coin-flip, I'm ready to lean bearish now that the range floor has actually given way.

Nifty is stuck in a genuine holding pattern -- Gift Nifty points to a flat-to-soft open, persistent FII selling keeps a lid on rallies, and only steady domestic institutional buying is preventing an outright slide. Neutral is the honest call until one side of that tug-of-war actually wins.

Nifty slipped back to around 24,165, giving back some of this week's grind-higher gains with no fresh domestic catalyst pushing either way. The index has been oscillating in a tight band for weeks now, so neutral feels like the honest call until it breaks decisively out of that range.

Nifty ground higher again, PSU banks doing the heavy lifting while retreating oil prices — helped along by talk of easing Gulf shipping tensions — take some pressure off India's import bill. It's more grind than breakout, but a few quiet-strength sessions in a row is enough for me to lean bullish rather than sit on the fence.