Muhurat Trading 2025: A special one-hour auspicious Muhurat trading will take place on October 21st as part of the decades-old Diwali tradition. During the Muhurat trading, Nifty is expected to move between 25,600 and 25,700 on the upside level, while on the downside, a correction could form between 25,000 and 24,800. Sectors like automobile, logistics, chemicals and power, among others, are recommended as top picks as their prospects look bullish ahead. .
Muhurat Trading 2025 Timing:
"A special live trading session shall be held on Tuesday, October 21, 2025 on account of Muhurat trading on Diwali," said NSE's note.
Diwali Muhurat Trading Session on Tuesday, October 21, 2025
-Pre Open Timing: Starts At 13:30 Hours To 13:45 Hours
- Normal Market Time: Starts At 13:45 Hours To 14:45 Hours
Other market session timings are as follows:
- Block Deal Session: 13:15 hours to 13:30 hours
-Special Preopen Session ** (For IPO & Relisted security): 13:30 hours to 14:15 hours
- Normal market open time for stocks in special preopen session: 14:30 hours to 14:45 hours
- Call Auction Illiquid session: 13:50 hours to 14:35 hours
- Closing Session: 14:55 hours to 15:05 hours
- Trade Modification cut-off time: 13:45 hours to 15:15 hours
Muhurat Trading 2025 Nifty Target:
As per Vishnu Kant Upadhyay, AVP -Research & Advisory, Master Capital Services, from a technical perspective, the broader outlook for the Nifty 50 remains constructive, and the "buy-on-dips" strategy is likely to prevail. Any corrective move towards the 25000-24800 zone could offer an opportunity to initiate fresh long positions, with initial upside targets placed around 25650-25700 levels."
Sectors To Watch Out On Muhurat Trading 2025:
Here are five sectors to watch out during Muhurat trading 2025, as per Anubhav Mukerjee- Partner at Prescient Capital.
1. Auto Stocks:
The automobile sector is believed to do very well in the coming year. The GST rate cuts will boost growth for Indian auto industry. More importantly, several auto ancillaries should grow much faster than underlying auto industry growth due to increasing content per vehicle (CPV). Premiumisation in Indian auto, whether it is increasing share of SUVs in Indian car sales or of premium bikes in motorcycle sales, is a major driver of this trend. Also, several ancillaries are pursuing substitution of imported components from China and other countries, especially in the EV space. So, entry into EV parts like motors, controller units, chargers, automotive displays, etc are opening new growth avenues for well-run listed auto ancillaries.
2. Power Stocks
The outlook for power equipment especially power transmission is optimistic going ahead. There are several small cap companies in the power transmission and generation space that are witnessing multiyear tailwinds due to huge transmission capex as well as data center build up in domestic as well as international markets. Several small cap companies in sectors like transformers, wires & cables, generators, transmission EPC, etc with all time high order books and strong growth prospects are available at attractive valuations.
3. Chemical Stocks:
Many chemicals like agrochemical intermediates, dyes & pigments, performance chemicals, etc have faced tremendous pricing pressures over the last 4-5 years due to incessant dumping by Chinese players both in India and international markets. Several chemical manufacturers have seen huge margin erosion and no share price appreciation in last 5 years. Now there are signs of cyclical turnaround with demand revival and chemical prices bottoming out that should drive good earrings growth and help many Indian chemical makers to post good returns going forward.
4. Microfinance Stocks:
The MFI industry is coming out a cyclical downturn caused by lenient lending norms post COVID. These relaxed norms led to excessive leverage for the same set of target customers. These customers borrowed at high interest rates from 4-6 lenders without having the cashflows for repayment. As a result, they rotated loans from one lending to the other. Around September 2024, RBI and MFIN (the self-regulatory industry body) refined guidelines for tightening MFI lending to customers and capped the total amount and the number of borrowers a customer could borrow from.
This deteriorated the asset quality of loans in the short term, and the Microfinance stocks corrected by 33-50% from their peak. The best in class lenders have tightened their lending processes since Sept 2024, and are back to demonstrating growth in their loan book. It is expected that MFI companies and their stocks will demonstrate good growth in H2 FY 26.
5. Logistic Stocks:
Logistics is seen among good sector for investment for the next 2 years. The whole logistics sector is coming out of a cyclical slowdown, which was caused by a slowdown in e-commerce and auto demand. Listed logistics companies had corrected by 33-50% from their peak valuations. In the last 1 year, the 3 e-commerce logistics players have seen consolidation/M&A and as a result irrational pricing an competition for market share has also stopped.
This has improved the unit economics of e-commerce logistics companies. On the side, a cut in GST rates has provided a fillip to the demand for auto, a large end user of logistics. The analyst believes good growth in demand for 2W/4W will also lead to a good demand visibility for their logistics partners.