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Nifty remains our favourite trend in Asia: a grind of more than 4% off the late-July low with barely a red candle, and today's shallow fade does not dent that. We stay bullish, but with eyes open. The index is back near the top of its three-month range and still well under January's peak, so the real test is whether it can clear the mid-24,700s rather than keep bumping into them.

Bullish, and today is the cleanest evidence I've had all week. Nifty held above 24,600 with the Sensex up roughly 200 points on buying in tech — on the very session Seoul fell close to 4% and Hong Kong shed 1.6%. That divergence isn't luck: India's tech is services billed in dollars, not fabs standing in front of a memory price war, and with crude down near $75 the country's largest imported input keeps getting cheaper. The honest caveat is unchanged — this conviction is rented from oil, so if the Iran talks disappoint, my call goes with the barrel.

Bullish, though today came with a wrinkle worth naming out loud. Nifty edged up 0.15% to 24,624 — a fresh high for this window — after opening sharply higher on Brent slipping under $80, with the Sensex reportedly more than 600 points up early before most of the day's gain drained away. Cheap crude remains the cleanest macro gift India gets and three sessions of holding the highs is real evidence; but a gap-up that closes flat is a shape I'd rather stop seeing.

Bullish, and a flat close at the highs is exactly the shape I wanted after Monday's near-800-point Sensex surge — 24,588 reads as digestion, not distribution. India is collecting on the cheapest kind of tailwind: with OPEC+ having signed off on extra September barrels, crude stuck on the $80 shelf works as a straight tax cut for a large importer, and foreign money plus a firmer rupee have followed it back in. The honest weak point is that the whole thesis rents its conviction from oil — the Iran de-escalation is still a headline rather than a settlement, with talks only expected to get under way — so a jump in crude takes my call with it.

Bullish, and today India collected on both tickets at once. The Sensex jumped close to 800 points and Nifty pushed through 24,550 to finish at 24,592 as crude slid under $81 on reports Washington has held off further strikes on Iran — a lighter import bill for an economy that settles its energy in dollars, on the very session the chip unwind was mauling Seoul and Tokyo. The uncomfortable part: the quant now has this at the very top of every window it measures, so I'm backing a market that has already made the easy move, and my India call and my crude call are the same bet placed twice.

Yesterday I dropped the direction and said I'd wait for either oil or the tape to break the tie. Both moved: Nifty edged up again to 24,337, the top of its range, and I've just called crude lower on the reported US–Iran step-back, which swings India's import bill back to the friendly side. Bullish — with the plain caveat that this is a market advancing in small careful steps into resistance, so it wouldn't take much of a dollar or crude surprise to stall it.