Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 5, 2026
AMOD, October 5: an 8-K, three halts, and $5.21
AMOD opened up 30% after an 8-K, ran to $5.21 through three halts, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: an 8-K at 8:35 a.m. Before the bell it reached $4.86, on 4.8M shares.
The open
It opened up 30%, at $4.53. It ran to $5.21 by 9:30 a.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it three times, from 9:33 a.m. to 9:53 a.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 9:39 a.m.: 6% below the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $3.76, 28% under its high.
What to take from it: The whole move was given back: it finished below the price it opened at.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 29.8% to $4.53 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $5.21 in 1 minute, then gave back 213% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $3.76, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:35 a.m. | SEC filing 8-K: 8-K |
| 9:04 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.49 |
| 9:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.86 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.53, up 29.8% from the previous close |
| 9:30 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.21 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.76, 27.8% 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
- $3.49
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.53
- Gap at the open
- +29.8%
- Pre-market high
- $4.86 at 9:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.21 at 9:30 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.89
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.76
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +7.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.98 at 4:26 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 10.82 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 313,963
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.5×
- Float
- 52.74 million shares, from filings as of October 5, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 56.61 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 28 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 8:35 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4.84 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (43%), 2.15 million in the first 30 minutes (19%), and 4.15 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (37%).
- Other days AMOD met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 7, the latest on October 21, 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 (3)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:33 a.m. | 9:38 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 7.4% | $4.19, down 3.9% | down 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:39 a.m. | 9:49 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 13.5% | $3.53, down 6.4% | up 11.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:53 a.m. | 9:58 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 4.0% | $3.85, down 1.8% | down 3.9% | 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.
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