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INFY jumped +4.1% on long buildup in futures

Strota Newsroom · session of 2026-10-02 · market close · INFY stock page →

Infosys Ltd. (INFY) jumped +4.1% to ₹1,035.00 with 4 signals firing. Here is what the exchange data shows.

Infosys shares rose 4.11% on Thursday to close at ₹1,035, finishing the session at the day's high while the Nifty slipped 0.88%. The stock opened 1.6% above the previous close of ₹994.10 and never went back to that level: the session low was ₹999.15. That is a gap-and-hold, an opening gap the price defends and then builds on, and here it came against a falling benchmark.

Futures showed the same direction. Infosys was classified as a long buildup, meaning fresh futures positions were opened as the price rose, with open interest up 3.81% against a price change of 3.55%. That reading is stamped to the last close, and its price change does not match the 4.11% session gain, so it may come from a different cut of the data. It points the same way, but it is not a measure of Thursday's full session.

There was no visible institutional footprint on the day. No bulk or block deals printed, there is no institutional streak on record, and no insider filings appear in the past 60 days. The only deals in the file date back to late June, and both were matched transfers rather than accumulation: PI Opportunities AIF V LLP sold and Vidyaniti LLP took the other side for ₹53.23 crore each, and two accounts held by the same pension fund trustee swapped ₹63.11 crore.

The rally started from a weak position. The stock sits 40.1% below its 52-week high and only 5.57% above its 52-week low, and it trades below both its 50-day and 200-day moving averages, with a 14-day RSI, a momentum gauge, of 44.9. Over one week it is up 3.47%; over one month it is down 8.43%. These readings may lag the price by a session. Three days earlier, a Univest headline reported the shares at a fresh 52-week low.

The news flow offers one company-specific item. According to a headline from Stock Titan, a Dutch bank said Infosys would help it cut operating costs as the lender widens its use of AI. The headline names neither the bank nor a deal value, and the evidence does not show whether it surfaced early enough to drive this session. A MarketsMojo headline reported Infosys rallying 4.02% amid market weakness, a figure that differs from the closing gain. A Business Today headline asked whether the large IT companies are heading for their weakest Q2 results in three years, a sector backdrop rather than a catalyst.

The data does not establish a single driver for the move. What it does show is a gap that held, a close at the high while the index fell, and futures traders adding long positions. The Dutch bank report is the only company-specific news in the pack, but its timing is unconfirmed, and the stock remains far below its 52-week high even after the bounce.

The numbers

Signals that fired

F&O positioning

Futures classified as Long Buildup — open interest +3.8% with price +3.5% in the latest bhavcopy.

Institutional activity

DateSideCounterpartyType₹ Cr
2026-06-29SELLPI OPPORTUNITIES AIF V LLPOther53.2
2026-06-29BUYVIDYANITI LLPOther53.2
2026-06-24SELLTHE MTBJ LTD. AS TRST FOR GOVRNMNT PENSION INVSTMNT FUND MTBJ400045828Other63.1
2026-06-24BUYTHE MTBJ LTD. AS TRST FOR GOVRNMNT PENSION INVSTMNT FUND MUTB400045794Other63.1

Technical context

Rsi(14) sits at 45; price is 40.1% from the 52-week high.

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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.