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ASTRAL surged +8.7% on long buildup in futures and a box breakout

Strota Newsroom · session of 2026-08-13 · market close · ASTRAL stock page →

Astral Ltd. (ASTRAL) surged +8.7% to ₹1,592.00 with 5 signals firing. Here is what the exchange data shows.

Astral Ltd. finished Wednesday's session at ₹1,592, a gain of 8.74% on the previous close of ₹1,464, on a day when the Nifty itself slipped 0.16%. The stock opened higher with a gap of 2.39%, never gave that opening advantage back, and ran up to ₹1,600 — the high of the day, where it was still sitting at the close. The low of ₹1,491 was set early and held. Turnover was the loudest part of the tape: volume came in at 32.2 times the stock's usual pace, and the close finished 1.15% above the day's volume-weighted average price.

The derivatives footprint pointed the same way. Astral's futures were classified as a long buildup — fresh futures positions opened while the price was rising, rather than short sellers being squeezed out — with open interest up 7.09% against a price move of 2.64% as of the last close.

What the evidence pack does not show is a disclosed large trade behind the move. There were no bulk or block deals recorded today, no institutional deals logged over the past thirty days, no run of consecutive institutional buying or selling, and no insider filings in the last sixty days.

On the technical side, the 14-day relative strength index sat at 73.1, above the 70 mark conventionally read as overbought, and the stock was trading above both its 50-day and 200-day moving averages. It completed a Darvas box breakout — a push clear of a recent sideways trading range — while stopping short of the stricter trend template. The close was 9.99% below the 52-week high and 25.98% above the 52-week low, capping a run of 10.4% over the past week and 17.0% over the past month.

The news context is earnings. According to a report from scanx.trade, the board approved financials for the quarter ended June 30. Upstox reported that the shares rallied 9% as first-quarter profit soared 48% year-on-year, and carried comment attributed to analysts at CITI, UBS and CLSA; NDTV Profit reported the same move and the same profit figure. A report from cnbctv18.com, filed a day earlier, put the net profit jump at 52% and attributed it to acceleration in the paint and adhesives businesses, describing the result as ahead of estimates.

Those reports do not agree with each other on the size of the profit increase, and the pack does not resolve which measure each publisher used. What is verifiable here is the price and positioning record: a held gap, a close at the day's high, volume many multiples of normal, and futures open interest expanding on the way up, all on the day results reached the market. The levels the session marked were the ₹1,600 high, the ₹1,491 low, and the ₹1,464 previous close from which the gap was measured.

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Signals that fired

F&O positioning

Futures classified as Long Buildup — open interest +7.1% with price +2.6% in the latest bhavcopy.

Technical context

Volume ran at 25.7× its 20-day average; rsi(14) sits at 73; price is 10.0% 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.