Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 12, 2026
MNDR, October 12: two halts, three ask walls, and $5.67
MNDR more than tripled at the open, ran to $5.67 through two halts, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
The $5.00 wall
There was no news, yet 47M shares traded before the bell. By 11:02, a $5.00 ask wall had grown to 73K shares.
Stop It's 11:11. MNDR is at $4.81. Just above, an ask wall has sat at $5.00 since 10:44 and has been as large as 72,948 shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:08 a.m. and stop at 11:11 a.m. ET for your call.
At 11:11:12, buyers ate the wall in under two seconds. It reached $5.67 at 11:16.
Second halt at $3.90
The slide from $5.67 ended in a halt at 11:36. A 109K-share ask wall sat at $3.90.
Stop It's 11:41. MNDR was halted at 11:36 with the last trade at $3.90. Trading resumes at $3.78, and a wall of up to 109,421 shares has been offered at $3.90, just above. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:38 a.m. and stop at 11:41 a.m. ET for your call.
Buyers took the wall at 11:41:26. That minute closed at $4.20.
Another $3.90 wall
Another $3.90 wall stood above the stock.
Stop It's 2:42. MNDR is at $3.58. Above, an ask wall has sat at $3.90 since 1:25 p.m. and peaked at 63,526 shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:39 p.m. and stop at 2:42 p.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate 50K shares there in under a second. It reached $4.45, then faded to $3.04 at the close.
What to take from it: Each ask wall broke within seconds, but every push after $5.67 topped out lower.
Replay MNDR's day
It starts at 7:01 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 7:04 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 206.5% to $2.59 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $5.67 in 106 minutes through a halt, then gave back 85% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $3.04, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:06 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.845 | |
| 8:34 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.21 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.59, up 206.5% from the previous close | |
| 11:16 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.67 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.04, 46.4% 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
- $0.845
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.59
- Gap at the open
- +206.5%
- Pre-market high
- $3.21 at 8:34 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.67 at 11:16 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.81
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.04
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +259.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.10 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 95.82 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.87 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 589.0×
- Float
- not available
- Shares outstanding
- not available
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 46.79 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (48%), 10.44 million in the first 30 minutes (11%), and 40.46 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (41%).
- Other days MNDR met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 30, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:19 a.m. | 10:24 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 30.3% | $4.52, unchanged | up 4.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:36 a.m. | 11:41 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 19.6% | $3.78, down 3.1% | up 20.6% | 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
Replay MNDR on October 12, 2026 in Hindsight Markets: the real tape, the order book and the halts, on a clock you control, and see where your orders would have filled.