Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 1, 2026
SORA, October 1: a quiet day, then $3.64 after the bell
SORA barely moved in the regular session after news, then ran to $3.64 after the close.
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What happened
A near-empty session
SORA barely traded all day. It opened at $2.27, under the $2.38 previous close. From 3:15 p.m. it sat at $2.35.
Stop It's 3:49. SORA is $2.35. It has sat at $2.35 since 3:15 p.m. The previous close was $2.38, and the low since the open was $2.21 at 11:05. About 2,300 shares have traded all day, 1,158 of them in a single minute at 3:40, and 300 more in the 3:48 minute. Would you buy here?
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Two minutes later it moved, touching $2.41, the regular-session high.
It closed the session at $2.36.
News after the bell
The headline woke the stock up. At 4:05 p.m. news of a deal with Plume Network crossed. At 4:06 a 6-K filing followed, and that minute hit $3.64, the day's high.
It did not hold: the next minute closed at $2.98. After hours, 3.36 million shares traded.
What to take from it: A stock that barely trades all day can spike after hours on news, and the first spike may not hold.
Replay SORA's day
It starts at 3:47 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 3:50 p.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
After-hours run. It opened down 4.6% at $2.27 and traded at $2.41 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 51.0% from $2.41 to $3.64 at 4:06 p.m. after the close, on 3.36 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.20 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.27, down 4.6% from the previous close | |
| 3:51 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.41 | |
| 3:51 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.41, 0.0% below the high | |
| 4:05 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): AsiaStrategy Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Plume Network to Advance Real-World Asset Tokenisation Across Asia | |
| 4:06 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.38 |
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
- $2.38
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.27
- Gap at the open
- −4.6%
- Pre-market high
- $2.20 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.41 at 3:51 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.20
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.41
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +1.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.64 at 4:06 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3,488
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.36 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 10.41 million shares, from filings as of October 1, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 24.86 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 minute after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 4:05 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 6 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 502 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 3.36 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days SORA met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 2, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners, after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: price $2 to $20, up 10% or more, relative volume 5× or more, float under 20 million shares, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for SORA that day.
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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