Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 13, 2026
BKYI, October 13: a 4:01 headline, $6.46, and the $2.90 bid
BKYI more than doubled at the open after news, then faded below its open by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Pre-market headline run
A 4:01 a.m. customer headline woke a quiet stock. From $1.65 it hit $6.11 by 4:45, then dipped to $4.47.
Stop It's 5:34 a.m. BKYI is at $5.42. It ran from $4.47 at 5:09 and is still under the $6.11 high from 4:45. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 5:31 a.m. and stop at 5:34 a.m. ET for your call.
Buyers kept pushing. One buy order ran through 54 price levels, and $6.46 printed at 5:35.
The $4.25 wall
Before the open, a big offer to sell sat at $4.25. It peaked near 66K shares at 9:21:38.
Stop It's 9:22 a.m. BKYI is at $4.17. Just above, a wall of up to 65,723 shares has been offered at $4.25 since 8:43. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:19 a.m. and stop at 9:22 a.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate it by 9:22:53, and the 9:23 minute closed at $4.37. It didn't last: by 9:45 it touched $2.96.
The $2.90 bid
All afternoon a big bid sat at $2.90.
Stop It's 2:59 p.m. BKYI is trading right around $2.90. A bid of up to 71,167 shares has been sitting at $2.90 since 1:54 p.m. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:56 p.m. and stop at 2:59 p.m. ET for your call.
Sellers hit it. At 2:59:45, 36K shares traded there in under a second and the bid was gone. It closed at $2.84, 56% under the high.
What to take from it: The big moves came before 9:30, and walls on both sides broke.
Replay BKYI's day
It starts at 9:51 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:54 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 and fade. It gapped up 147.9% to $4.09 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $2.84.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:01 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): BIO-key Adds New Middle East Government Security Agency Customer, Expanding Regional Footprint | |
| 4:21 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.65 | |
| 4:29 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.99 million shares | |
| 5:35 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.46 | |
| 5:35 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.46 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.09, up 147.9% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.84, 56.0% 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
- $1.65
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.09
- Gap at the open
- +147.9%
- Pre-market high
- $6.46 at 5:35 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.46 at 5:35 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.64
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.84
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +72.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.72 at 5:39 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 36.28 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.68 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 9.6×
- Float
- 1.99 million shares, from filings as of October 13, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.04 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 20 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 4:01 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 24.52 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (65%), 3.44 million in the first 30 minutes (9%), and 9.99 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (26%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.99 million shares: past it once at 4:29 a.m., twice at 4:37 a.m., three times at 4:43 a.m.
- Other days BKYI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 23, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for BKYI 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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