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PAYTM surged +9.9% on long unwinding in futures and a 52-week high test

Strota Newsroom · session of 2026-08-10 · market close · PAYTM stock page →

One 97 Communications Ltd. (PAYTM) surged +9.9% to ₹1,584.10 with 4 signals firing. Here is what the exchange data shows.

One 97 Communications, the listed parent of Paytm, ended the session at ₹1,584.10, a gain of 9.88% on a previous close of ₹1,441.60. The stock traded as low as ₹1,445 early on before running to ₹1,598.50, and it finished right at the top of that range. Turnover was the loud part: volume ran at 45.6 times its usual level, and the close sat 2.06% above the day's volume-weighted average price, the average price at which the stock actually changed hands. The wider market went nowhere, with the Nifty up 0.05%.

Futures positioning, however, pointed the other way. The last available read classified the stock as long unwinding — open interest, the number of live futures contracts, fell 1.66% while the price slipped 0.39%, the footprint of traders closing out existing bullish bets rather than fresh money arriving. That snapshot belongs to the previous close, not to this rally, so the derivatives data trails the move instead of accounting for it.

Bulk and block deal records held nothing at all for the day itself. The most recent prints on file were dated 4 August, when SAIF III Mauritius Company sold ₹1,332.7 crore of stock and SAIF Partners India IV sold ₹565.77 crore, with the National Pension System Trust taking ₹413.08 crore and Axis Mutual Fund ₹369.31 crore on the other side. No insider filings were recorded over the past 60 days.

Technically, the stock ended stretched. Its 14-day relative strength index, a momentum gauge, stood at 83, deep into what chart-watchers call overbought territory, and relative volume was 5.17 times normal. The close left it 0.9% below its 52-week high and 70.22% above the 52-week low, with the price above both its 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Across the past week the stock added 12.3%; across the past month, about 18%.

News flow supplied little to pin the day on. No fresh headlines were dated to the session at all, and the newest item on file was three days old. Five days earlier, Goodreturns reported that the Reserve Bank of India had cancelled the licence of Paytm Payments Bank and that the shares dropped over 7% on it, with the company putting out a clarification. Further back, Reuters reported that Indian payments firms had objected to a one-click UPI checkout proposal on competition grounds.

Taken together, the data shows no single obvious catalyst for a move of this size. What the evidence does establish is that the buying was extraordinary in volume terms, that it carried the stock to its high and to within touching distance of its 52-week high, and that the last visible institutional prints were a large offshore seller being absorbed by domestic buyers a week earlier. What it does not establish is any link between that older activity and this session.

The numbers

Signals that fired

F&O positioning

Futures classified as Long Unwinding — open interest -1.7% with price -0.4% in the latest bhavcopy.

Institutional activity

DateSideCounterpartyType₹ Cr
2026-08-04SELLSAIF III MAURITIUS COMPANY LIMITEDOther1,332.7
2026-08-04SELLSAIF III MAURITIUS COMPANY LIMITEDOther1,332.7
2026-08-04SELLSAIF PARTNERS INDIA IV LIMITEDOther565.8
2026-08-04SELLSAIF PARTNERS INDIA IV LIMITEDOther565.8
2026-08-04BUYNATIONAL PENSION SYSTEM (NPS) TRUSTOther413.1
2026-08-04BUYAXIS MUTUAL FUNDMF369.3

Technical context

Volume ran at 5.2× its 20-day average; rsi(14) sits at 83; price is 0.9% from the 52-week high; trading above the 50-dma and 200-dma.

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How this article was made: Strota assembled the exchange data above (prices, F&O open interest, bulk/block deals, SEBI PIT filings, indicator readings and public headlines) and an AI model wrote the narrative strictly from that evidence — it is not permitted to add outside facts or numbers. Every figure comes from the underlying exchange/public data.