After opening unenthusiastically at 15,066.71, the stock market is trading flat in the morning trades.

On the other hand, Asian markets also opened negatively as the US subprime lender Aegis Mortgage filed for bankruptcy, activating worries of credit situations of higher risk mortgages.

Rajesh Jain of Pranav Securities believes that it’s beneficial to hold Industrial Finance Corporation of India, IFCI at the moment. IFCI is a slow mover, but it has lots of potential to go up.

Jain told, "In the best of situation, if everything goes the right way then IFCI could give you almost a 50% gain from this point. If you look at the portfolio that IFCI has to offer to an investor at this point, there are NPs for which recoveries have started you could almost raise Rs 2,000-2,500 crore out of that. The hidden real estate value put anywhere between Rs 3,000-4,000 crore."

Rahul Agarwal, VP, Institutional Sales, LKP Shares, said that today stock market was performing steadily because of the absence of aggressive selling. Volumes remained on the lower side as less of institutional buying was seen today. There was broad-based buying across all the sectors, though IT sector under-performed markets. He expects volatility with a negative bias to be seen in the Tuesday`s trading session.

Bhupendra Sharma, vice president, Hornic Investments stated that today market traded decisively all through the day, as it ended the day 149 points. It was mainly because of good worldwide cues. No major buying took place today. There was careful buying and the majority of the small cap companies did well today.

Today, the stock market opened afresh in the positive territory at 14, 965.65, and the stocks from baking, auto and telecom chaired the advancements.

Supported by the string buying interest in the index havyweights, the 30- share index is continuously trading in the positive terrain.

According to Karvt stock’s assistant manager, Bharat Thakur that stock market will open with a sliding gap on Monday, but will regain progressively to end the day on a positive note. He is bullish on IT sector and suggests Infosys, HFC, Satyam and Nitin Fires for trading.

According to technical forecaster, Ashwani Gujral the Punj Lloyd can climb upto Rs 390.

Gujral said, “For Punj Lloyd Rs 280-285 is a key resistance, once it can stay above that, then it can easily go up to Rs 390. The important point here is that people are very cautious but the market is not responding with the vigor on the downside”

He further added, "In case no more bad news comes in, we could slowly have this market moving higher and mid caps could lead the charge from here, because they have fallen much less and probably the hedge funds etc. they have much lower exposure to mid caps."

Ambareesh Baliga of Karvy Stock Broking believes that Infosys Technologies can definitely touch Rs 2200-2400 in the coming 6-9 months.

He suggested investors to hold the stock for long term, and when it reaches or crosses this expected level, they can make their profits from this evergreen stock.