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RADICO jumped +3.1% on long unwinding in futures and a 52-week high test

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

Radico Khaitan Ltd (RADICO) jumped +3.1% to ₹4,675.20 with 4 signals firing. Here is what the exchange data shows.

Radico Khaitan ended the session at ₹4,675.20, up 3.14% on the previous close of ₹4,533. That closing price was also the day's high, and the day's low of ₹4,525.20 sat only a little under the previous close, so the stock finished at the top of its range. The gap at the open was zero, meaning the demand accumulated during trading hours rather than before the bell. The broader market went the other way, with the Nifty down 0.16%.

The advance put the stock at the top of its own one-year range: zero percent away from its 52-week high, and 87.01% above its 52-week low. It was up 4.59% over the past week and 14.3% over the past month, and traded above both its 50-day and 200-day moving averages while satisfying the trend template, a checklist of moving-average conditions used to flag sustained uptrends. RSI-14, a momentum gauge, stood at 77.3, above the 70 mark conventionally called overbought.

The derivatives footprint is thin, and what there is of it is stale. The only positioning reading is tagged to the last close: long unwinding, with open interest down 1.31% against a price change of -0.09%, meaning traders closed out existing bullish futures positions on a mildly softer day. That describes the earlier session, not this one. There is no positioning entry for the day of the rise, so how the futures market responded to it is not recorded here.

The volume evidence disagrees with itself. The session signals flag a volume spike of 3.1 times, while the technicals block puts relative volume at 0.84, below the stock's own recent average. Both sit in the same pack unreconciled, so neither can be leaned on as proof of unusual participation. The one uncontested intraday marker is that the stock finished 1.33% above its volume-weighted average price.

Institutional and insider records are empty. No bulk or block deals were reported for the day or in the previous 30 days, no insider filings in the last 60 days, and no institutional buying or selling streak is on file. No upcoming earnings date is listed either.

The news file carries nothing fresh. The most recent items are about a fortnight old: Business Standard reported a fifth consecutive session of gains, and GuruFocus covered the company's Q1 FY27 earnings call, referring to record volumes. Two days before that, according to a report from Reuters, quarterly profit rose as gross margins expanded on premium demand, while NDTV Profit reported net profit up 76% with volume growth guidance raised to more than 25%. A brokerage note on the stock appeared more than two months ago. None of it is new as of this session.

So the price action is clear enough — a 3.14% rise to a close at both the day's high and the 52-week high, on a day the index slipped. The cause is not. The results coverage predates the move by more than two weeks, the futures reading belongs to a different session, and the two volume measures point in opposite directions. On this evidence, the data does not establish a single driver for the move.

The numbers

Signals that fired

F&O positioning

Futures classified as Long Unwinding — open interest -1.3% with price -0.1% in the latest bhavcopy.

Technical context

Volume ran at 0.8× its 20-day average; rsi(14) sits at 77; price is 0.0% 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.