Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 18, 2026
AIXC, August 18: a 9:27 headline, 24 halts, and $3.15
AIXC opened up 18% after news, ran to $3.15 through 24 halts, then gave back most of the run by the close.
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What happened
Headline, first halt
A 9:27 headline about a robotics pivot lifted AIXC from a $0.71 close. It ran to $1.19 and was halted at 9:33:05.
Stop It's 9:43. AIXC was halted at 9:33 with a last trade of $1.19 and has been frozen for ten minutes. Trading is about to resume. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:40 a.m. and stop at 9:43 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened 24% higher, at $1.48. The halts kept coming.
The 10:44 halt
At 10:44:12 it was halted again, with the last trade at $2.67.
Stop It's 10:54. AIXC has been halted since 10:44, when the last trade was $2.67. Trading is about to resume. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:51 a.m. and stop at 10:54 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened higher at $2.99. It halted again at $3.14 fifteen seconds later.
Stop It's 10:59. AIXC is at $3.14, halted since 10:54 and about to reopen. It has gone from $0.71 at the previous close to more than four times that. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:56 a.m. and stop at 10:59 a.m. ET for your call.
It touched $3.15, the high, then halted at $2.99.
The fade
It reopened 13% lower and slid. After 24 halts, it closed near $1.30, 59% below the high.
What to take from it: On this day, the halts that carried it up also carried it back down.
Replay AIXC's day
It starts at 9:26 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:29 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
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 17.9% to $0.8374 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $3.15 in 89 minutes through 13 halts, then gave back 80% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.30, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:27 a.m. | News (PRNewsWire): AIxC Announces Strategic Pivot to Physical AI and Robotic Operations Commercialization; RoboShare Completes First Paid Commercial Order | |
| 9:28 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.7102 | |
| 9:29 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.97 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.8374, up 17.9% from the previous close | |
| 10:59 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.15 | |
| 12:14 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 18.37 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.30, 58.6% 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
- $0.7102
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.8374
- Gap at the open
- +17.9%
- Pre-market high
- $0.97 at 9:29 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.15 at 10:59 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.7136
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.30
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +83.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.47 at 4:41 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 27.59 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.86 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2108.8×
- Float
- 18.37 million shares, from filings as of August 18, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 20.23 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 minute after the latest news item before it (PRNewsWire, 9:27 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 88,837 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 4.81 million in the first 30 minutes (16%), and 24.55 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (83%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 18.37 million shares: past it once at 12:14 p.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day AIXC met the small-cap rule.
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 (24)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:33 a.m. | 9:43 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 34.1% | $1.48, up 24.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 9:43 a.m. | 9:48 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 26.9% | $1.59, up 5.3% | up 11.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:49 a.m. | 9:54 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 17.2% | $1.78, up 0.6% | up 8.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:55 a.m. | 10:00 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 9.0% | $1.84, down 4.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 10:00 a.m. | 10:05 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 12.4% | $1.63, down 3.6% | up 9.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:06 a.m. | 10:11 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 5.3% | $1.92, up 7.9% | up 14.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:12 a.m. | 10:17 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 23.6% | $2.25, up 2.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 10:17 a.m. | 10:22 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 9.1% | $2.50, up 4.2% | up 6.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:23 a.m. | 10:28 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 10.4% | $2.80, up 5.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 10:28 a.m. | 10:33 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 11.3% | $2.74, down 7.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 10:33 a.m. | 10:43 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 12.2% | $2.52, down 2.7% | up 6.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:44 a.m. | 10:54 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 3.1% | $2.99, up 12.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 10:54 a.m. | 10:59 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 17.6% | $3.14, unchanged | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 10:59 a.m. | 11:09 a.m. | 10 min 1 s | down 4.8% | $2.60, down 13.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 11:09 a.m. | 11:19 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 18.1% | $2.27, down 7.3% | down 6.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:20 a.m. | 11:25 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.5% | $2.00, down 5.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 11:25 a.m. | 11:30 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 12.7% | $1.91, up 3.2% | down 5.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:33 a.m. | 11:38 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 2.2% | $1.75, down 3.3% | up 4.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:40 a.m. | 11:45 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 0.6% | $1.87, up 2.7% | down 7.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:47 a.m. | 11:52 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 4.9% | $1.68, down 2.9% | down 8.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:53 a.m. | 11:58 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 11.6% | $1.48, down 3.3% | down 6.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:08 p.m. | 12:13 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 14.5% | $1.55, up 3.3% | up 2.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:21 p.m. | 12:26 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 11.1% | $1.82, up 1.1% | down 5.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:37 p.m. | 12:42 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 6.9% | $1.85, unchanged | down 2.7% | 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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