Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 14, 2026
AEHL, October 14: 13 halts and $30.60
AEHL more than doubled at the open, ran to $30.60 through 13 halts, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $29.76, on 2M shares.
The open
It more than doubled at the open, at $24.20. It ran to $30.60 by 12:22 p.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it 13 times, from 9:32 a.m. to 3:44 p.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 9:55 a.m.: 10% above the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $11.58, 62% 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 183.0% to $24.20 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $30.60 in 172 minutes through 6 halts, then gave back 297% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $11.58, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $8.55 |
| 4:13 a.m. | Pre-market high, $29.76 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $24.20, up 183.0% from the previous close |
| 12:22 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $30.60 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $11.58, 62.2% 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
- $8.55
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $24.20
- Gap at the open
- +183.0%
- Pre-market high
- $29.76 at 4:13 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $30.60 at 12:22 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $10.57
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $11.58
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +35.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $15.96 at 5:25 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 6.23 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 614,219
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 15.6×
- Float
- 16.41 million shares, from filings as of October 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 19.01 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.95 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (29%), 521,391 in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 4.37 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (64%).
- Other days AEHL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, the latest on October 13, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners, after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 (13)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:32 a.m. | 9:37 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 16.5% | $19.45, down 4.0% | up 2.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:42 a.m. | 9:47 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 14.8% | $21.30, up 3.0% | up 3.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:55 a.m. | 10:05 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 5.1% | $27.00, up 10.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:05 a.m. | 10:10 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 21.1% | $27.99, down 5.8% | down 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:11 a.m. | 10:16 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 15.2% | $24.43, down 3.0% | down 9.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:42 a.m. | 10:47 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 12.6% | $28.90, up 1.8% | down 4.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:24 p.m. | 12:29 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 5.7% | $25.56, down 0.6% | down 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:30 p.m. | 12:35 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 10.6% | $22.95, down 0.2% | down 3.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:49 p.m. | 2:54 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.8% | $16.54, down 1.5% | down 4.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:05 p.m. | 3:10 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 14.2% | $14.00, up 4.2% | up 0.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:18 p.m. | 3:23 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 12.8% | $12.41, down 0.6% | up 11.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:27 p.m. | 3:32 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 10.5% | $14.22, up 3.1% | up 1.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:44 p.m. | 3:49 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 11.9% | $11.64, down 2.8% | down 0.9% | 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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