Nse Nifty - Historical Data [better]

He downloaded the full historical dataset—every single trading day from its 1995 base value of 1,000 points to the present. 25 years of data. 6,000-odd rows of open, high, low, close.

The 2008 line looked like a cliff. He zoomed in. October 24, 2008: Nifty crashed 11% in a single day. Arjun remembered that day. He was in college, watching news channels show Lehman Brothers employees walking out with cardboard boxes. His father had almost sold everything in panic. The data whispered: Those who sold at the bottom missed the next 500% rise.

February 2000. The dot-com bust. Nifty fell from 1,750 to 800 in eight months. Arjun visualized the V-shaped recovery that followed. He saw May 2004, when the "NDA shock" crashed the market 17% in a week—only to double in the next three years. He traced the long, painful plateau of 2011-2013, when everyone said India was doomed. The data showed a quiet accumulation phase, like a coiled spring. nse nifty historical data

He kept digging.

One night, he found an anomaly. On May 18, 2009, after the election results, Nifty jumped 17% in one day—the largest single-day gain ever. But the day before, volumes were normal. No one knew. The market’s greatest moves happened when everyone was certain of the opposite. The 2008 line looked like a cliff

Five years later, he opened the laptop again. His investment had tripled. The news was full of "record highs" and "overvalued warnings." But the historical data smiled back at him: Same panic, different date.

At first, it was just numbers. Then he started graphing it. Arjun remembered that day

Arjun stopped checking his portfolio every hour. He automated a small monthly SIP into a Nifty ETF and deleted the trading app.