Stock Market Dataset(NIFTY 50)

Context

This dataset provides comprehensive historical data for the Nifty 50 Index, including daily open, high, low, close prices, and trade volumes. Spanning the period for Year 2024-2025, it captures market trends across India's leading stock index during a time of significant economic shifts, including the global pandemic and post-recovery phases.

The NIFTY 50 is a benchmark Indian stock market index that represents the weighted average of 50 of the largest Indian companies listed on the National Stock Exchange. It is one of the two main stock indices used in India, the other being the BSE SENSEX.

Nifty 50 is owned and managed by NSE Indices (previously known as India Index Services & Products Limited), which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the NSE Strategic Investment Corporation Limited. NSE Indices had a marketing and licensing agreement with Standard & Poor's for co-branding equity indices until 2013. The Nifty 50 index was launched on 22 April 1996 and is one of the many stock indices of Nifty.

Data can be useful for trend analysis, volatility studies, and investment strategy development for both long-term and short-term market assessments.

The NIFTY 50 index is a free-float market capitalization weighted index. The index was initially calculated on a full market capitalization methodology. On 26 June 2009, the computation was changed to a free-float methodology. The base period for the NIFTY 50 index is 3 November 1995, which marked the completion of one year of operations of the National Stock Exchange Equity Market Segment. The base value of the index has been set at 1000 and a base capital of ₹ 2.06 trillion.