Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 14, 2026
AEHL, August 14: five halts and $7.87
AEHL opened near its previous close, then ran to $7.87 through five halts during the session.
What happened
The first halt
No news came with it. It was halted at 10:07:00 at $5.60.
Stop It's 10:12. AEHL is coming out of a volatility halt that began at 10:07. The last trade before the halt was $5.60. It is reopening at $5.80, above the $4.47 open. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:09 a.m. and stop at 10:12 a.m. ET for your call.
It halted again at 10:12:18 at $6.38. It reopened at 10:27:19 at $7.61 and hit $7.87 that minute.
The third reopen
After a third halt it reopened at $7.00.
Stop It's 10:34. AEHL is at $7.58. It reopened from its third halt a minute ago at $7.00. The high so far is $7.87. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:31 a.m. and stop at 10:34 a.m. ET for your call.
At 10:34:09 one 33K-share sell order hit, from $7.58 to $7.00. $7.58 was a lower high.
The fifth reopen
Two halts later, it reopened at 10:46:39 at $5.65.
Stop It's 10:47. AEHL reopened a minute ago at $5.65 and is trading at $5.64. Twenty minutes ago it was at $7.87. Would you buy this dip?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:44 a.m. and stop at 10:47 a.m. ET for your call.
That minute fell to $4.95. It was $4.79 at 3:59 p.m.
What to take from it: After the top, the next push stopped lower, and the move was gone by the close.
Replay AEHL's day
It starts at 9:54 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:57 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened down 5.5% at $4.47, then ran from the open to the high of $7.87 in 57 minutes through two halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 6:05 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.73 | |
| 6:13 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.36 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.47, down 5.5% from the previous close | |
| 10:27 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $7.87 | |
| 10:47 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 938,191 shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.79, 39.1% below the high |
The shape's name comes from a fixed rule, not a judgement (how shapes are named). Halts are in the halt table below.
The day in numbers
- Previous close
- $4.73
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.47
- Gap at the open
- −5.5%
- Pre-market high
- $6.36 at 6:13 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.87 at 10:27 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.85
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.79
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +1.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.94 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.10 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 5,812
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 3.9×
- Float
- 938,191 shares, from filings as of August 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.31 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 380,774 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (34%), 14,323 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 714,817 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (64%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 938,191 shares: past it once at 10:47 a.m.
- Other days AEHL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, the latest on October 14, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it was in play on the intraday runners: up 30% or more on $3 million or more really traded, outside the small-cap rule's price, relative volume or float, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (5)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:07 a.m. | 10:12 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 12.7% | $5.80, up 3.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 10:12 a.m. | 10:27 a.m. | 15 min 1 s | up 13.9% | $7.61, up 19.3% | down 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:28 a.m. | 10:33 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 7.4% | $7.00, up 2.2% | down 9.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:35 a.m. | 10:40 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 7.6% | $6.17, down 2.5% | down 12.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:41 a.m. | 10:46 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 14.8% | $5.65, up 4.8% | down 6.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
Halt bands that day: the LULD plan's Amendment 18 rules (what that means, LULD calculator).
How we read the data, name a day's shape and pick the stocks: methodology.
Trade this day
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