NEPSE 2026-10-15: index 2,625.93 (+4.67 pts, +0.18%). RSI(14) 57.75, close above the 20-day SMA of 2,605.78; turnover Rs 4.72 billion. Read: positive.
NEPSE Market Today — 2026-10-15
NEPSE closed at 2,625.93, up 4.67 points (+0.18%) from the previous close of 2,621.26. Intraday the index ranged from 2,615.71 to 2,630.57 after opening at 2,621.41.
Breakout or Correction?
Using the previous 20 sessions (2,557.30 to 2,679.90) as the box, breakout means closing above it and correction means closing below it. Today's close of 2,625.93 is inside that range, so neither a breakout nor a breakdown was confirmed. The close is -11.57% from the 52-week high of 2,969.50 and +6.34% above the 52-week low of 2,469.37.
Range Context
The intraday span was 14.86 points (0.57% of the prior close), with the close sitting 68.78% up from the low of the range. Zooming out, the past 20 sessions ran from 2,557.30 to 2,671.04, while the 52-week low and high are 2,469.37 (2025-10-26) and 2,969.50 (2026-03-25); the close stands -11.57% from that high and +6.34% above that low.
Support and Resistance
Support, defined as the closest swing low under the close, is 2,557.30 from 2026-10-06, 2.61% below. The nearest swing high above it is 2,656.54 (2026-08-13), 1.17% away. A swing point here is a high or low that beats the three sessions either side of it. The 20-day band is 2,557.30 to 2,671.04.
Technical Snapshot
From the daily closes, the close is above the 20-day SMA of 2,605.78 (+0.77%), above the 50-day SMA of 2,606.37 (+0.75%), below the 200-day SMA of 2,688.98. The 14-day RSI sits at 57.75, which is neutral territory. MACD(12,26,9) reads 0.71 against a signal line of -3.25, a positive histogram of +3.96 that is widening.
Trend Direction
The close is above 2 of the three moving averages (20-day, 50-day and 200-day). Over five sessions the index is +1.99% (from 2,574.65) and over 21 sessions +1.58%; the last five closes were 5 up and 0 down, with a 6-session winning streak now. Combining price, breadth, the 20-day average and MACD, the rule-based read is positive. Nothing here is advice — it is what the closing data shows.