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MCX: MCX Q1 Cons Net Profit Rises to ₹413 Crore vs ₹203 Crore YoY, Revenue… as shares slid -3.0%

Strota Newsroom · session of 2026-09-25 · market close · MCX stock page →

Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (MCX) slid -3.0% to ₹3,324.90 with 5 signals firing. Here is what the exchange data shows.

Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. closed at 3324.9 on 2026-09-25, down -3.0% from the previous close of 3427.7, after a range of 3481.4 to 3310.0. Live flags marked a volume spike of 15.8x, a finish at the day's low, and a print below VWAP by -1.36% while Nifty was +0.34%. The open actually gapped up, with gap_pct at 1.05, so the session reversed an early bid into a full giveback.

F&O context is labelled Long Buildup, with oi_chg_pct at 3.98 and price_chg_pct at 1.64 on that futures snapshot. Long buildup is fresh longs added as price rose on that measure — a footprint that can sit awkwardly beside a soft cash close if the futures snapshot and the cash session are not perfectly aligned in time. The only institutional deal in the 30-day list is a UTI MUTUAL FUND BUY of 425.01 on 2026-06-29, too old to explain today's volume.

Technicals remain trend-positive in the pack: above SMA50 and SMA200, trend_template true, rsi14 at 56.3, rvol at 1.27. pct_from_52w_high is -4.5 and pct_from_52w_low is 115.19. ret_1w is 1.9907975460122727 and ret_1m is 1.5857011915673722, so the name is still slightly green on those windows even after the -3.0% session.

News is thin on a same-day catalyst. According to a headline from IndiaIPO, MCX shares slipped after hitting a record high and the stock was in focus. NDTV Profit had previously reported Macquarie initiating coverage colour and a near-2% jump on that narrative, which is attributed reportage only. Earnings-call and Q1 profit headlines in the pack are weeks to months old.

What the tape shows is a high-volume reversal from a gap-up open to the lows without a fresh institutional deal and without a dense same-day filing stack. The long-buildup futures label and the still-green one-month return path sit beside the soft close rather than resolving it. The data does not establish a single obvious catalyst beyond profit-taking after strength and the record-high slip headline.

A gap-up open that fails into a close on the lows is classic failed-strength tape when volume expands. The long-buildup futures label may reflect an earlier futures mark inside the pack rather than agreement with the final cash print, and the evidence does not reconcile the two clocks. With only a June UTI MUTUAL FUND deal on the blotter, institutional cash flow does not explain the 15.8x volume spike either.

The numbers

Signals that fired

F&O positioning

Futures classified as Long Buildup — open interest +4.0% with price +1.6% in the latest bhavcopy.

Institutional activity

DateSideCounterpartyType₹ Cr
2026-06-29BUYUTI MUTUAL FUNDMF425.0

Technical context

Volume ran at 1.3× its 20-day average; rsi(14) sits at 56; price is 4.5% 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.