Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on November 3, 2026
BIVI, November 3: a quiet morning, two halts, and $2.66
BIVI opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.66 through two halts during the session.
What happened
Quiet, then a burst at 11
It opened at $1.45 and mostly sat between $1.40 and $1.57 for ninety minutes. The news, a Long COVID conference presentation headline, had come out the morning before at 9:00. At 11:00 the volume arrived: 51K shares in one minute, then 113K, then 166K as it ran through $2.00.
Two halts around the top
It hit $2.36 and was halted at 11:03:54. It reopened at 11:08:54 near $2.35, and $2.66, the high of the day, came in the 11:09 minute, on 706K shares. That is 94% above the previous close.
The next push stopped lower, at $2.49. By 11:11 it was down to $1.85, and it was halted again at 11:12:22 with the last trade at $1.81. It reopened at 11:22:22 at $1.65, 9% lower.
A bounce and a long fade
It bounced to $2.03 at 11:32, then slid to $1.56 by 11:42. The afternoon stayed in a tight range around $1.60 to $1.75, and the stock ended the regular session near $1.68. Regular-session volume was 4.1M shares, nearly half the 8.7M float, about 53 times normal.
What to take from it: BIVI's $2.66 top came minutes after a halt reopen, and the second halt reopened 9% lower.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 5.8% at $1.45, then ran from the open to the high of $2.66 in 99 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.45 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.45, up 5.8% from the previous close |
| 11:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.37 |
| 11:09 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.66 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.71, 35.7% 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
- $1.37
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.45
- Gap at the open
- +5.8%
- Pre-market high
- $1.45 at 9:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.66 at 11:09 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.37
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.71
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +24.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.97 at 5:49 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.10 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 244,476
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 53.2×
- Float
- 8.66 million shares, from filings as of November 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.68 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 911 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 11,313 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 4.33 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days BIVI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on August 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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:03 a.m. | 11:08 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 53.2% | $2.35, down 0.4% | down 23.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 11:12 a.m. | 11:22 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 23.3% | $1.65, down 8.8% | up 9.7% | 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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