Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 2, 2026
SORA, October 2: news and a pre-market spike to $3.05
SORA spiked to $3.05 before the open after news, then gave much of it back in the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 4:05 p.m. the day before. Before the bell it reached $3.05, on 581K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.34.
The close
It closed at $2.19, 28% under its high.
What to take from it: The move happened before the bell. The regular session never got back to the pre-market high.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Pre-market spike. Before the open it spiked 29.2% from $2.36 to $3.05 at 4:00 a.m.. It opened down 0.8% at $2.34 and traded at $2.19 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Oct 1, 4:05 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): AsiaStrategy Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Plume Network to Advance Real-World Asset Tokenisation Across Asia |
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.36 |
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.05 |
| 4:00 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.05 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.34, down 0.8% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.19, 28.2% 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
- $2.36
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.34
- Gap at the open
- −0.8%
- Pre-market high
- $3.05 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.05 at 4:00 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.05
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.19
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −7.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.30 at 5:30 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 852,805
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 47,356
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 5.1×
- Float
- 10.41 million shares, from filings as of October 2, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 24.86 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 11 hours 55 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, Oct 1, 4:05 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 581,450 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (65%), 89,975 in the first 30 minutes (10%), and 228,736 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (25%).
- Other days SORA met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 1, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. 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.
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