Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 29, 2026
PARA, October 29: two halts and $4.75
PARA opened near its previous close, then ran to $4.75 through two halts during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.36, on 9K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.13. It ran to $4.75 by 11:29 a.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it two times, from 11:14 a.m. to 11:29 a.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 11:14 a.m.: 20% above the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $4.17, 12% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened down 6.8% at $3.13, then ran from the open to the high of $4.75 in 119 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:31 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.36 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.13, down 6.8% from the previous close |
| 11:29 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.36 |
| 11:29 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.75 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.17, 12.2% below the high |
| 6:14 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 397,430 shares |
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
- $3.36
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.13
- Gap at the open
- −6.8%
- Pre-market high
- $3.36 at 6:31 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.75 at 11:29 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.65
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.17
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +24.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.38 at 4:22 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 379,356
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 21,634
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 12.4×
- Float
- 397,430 shares, from filings as of October 29, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 521,103
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 9,064 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 7,733 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 384,193 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (96%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 397,430 shares: past it once at 6:14 p.m.
- Other days PARA met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on November 3, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. 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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:14 a.m. | 11:29 a.m. | 15 min 0 s | up 12.9% | $4.75, up 20.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:29 a.m. | 11:34 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 8.4% | $4.22, down 1.4% | down 7.6% | 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.
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