Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026
AIXI, August 17: a run to $0.9097
AIXI opened near its previous close, then ran to $0.9097 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $0.86, on 11K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $0.794. It ran to $0.9097 by 12:30 p.m.
The close
It closed at $0.8923, near 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 4.0% at $0.794, then ran from the open to the high of $0.9097 in 180 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.86 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.794, down 4.0% from the previous close |
| 12:30 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $0.9097 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.8923, 1.9% below the high |
| 4:19 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.827 |
| 4:30 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.74 million 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
- $0.827
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.794
- Gap at the open
- −4.0%
- Pre-market high
- $0.86 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.9097 at 12:30 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.7641
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.8923
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +7.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.43 at 4:24 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 112,450
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 6.15 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 10.8×
- Float
- 2.74 million shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.85 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 10,874 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 23,658 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 6.22 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.74 million shares: past it once at 4:30 p.m., twice at 5:03 p.m.
- Other days AIXI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 11, the latest on October 23, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for AIXI 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.
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