Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 31, 2026
AEHL, August 31: three halts, $8.40, and the bid at $7.00
AEHL opened up 91%, ran to $8.40 through three halts, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
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A big gap, no news
AEHL ran with no headline in the data. It closed at $3.54 and opened at $6.76, up 91%. By 4:23 a.m. more shares had traded than its 938K float.
A thin reopen
Halt #2 froze it at $7.60 at 12:16:39. An 84K-share bid far below at $5.53 was pulled a second later. It reopened at $7.79 and hit $8.03, then fell to $6.80.
Stop It's 12:35. AEHL is at $7.45, up from $6.92 at the end of 12:29. The high from the last halt reopen is $8.03. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:32 p.m. and stop at 12:35 p.m. ET for your call.
One buy order swept 32 price levels. Halt #3 hit at 12:36:11 at $8.12. It reopened at $8.29 and set the day's high, $8.40, that minute.
The bid at $7.00
After the high, it slid back toward a bid at $7.00.
Stop It's 12:45. AEHL is at $7.25, down from $8.40 four minutes ago. A bid has been sitting at exactly $7.00 for about 40 seconds. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:42 p.m. and stop at 12:45 p.m. ET for your call.
Sellers ate the bid. It grew to 30K shares, then 29K shares traded there in 2 seconds and it was gone at 12:45:49. By 12:54 the stock was at $6.18. It closed near $6.48.
What to take from it: The $7.00 bid looked like support, but sellers cleared it in 2 seconds.
Replay AEHL's day
It starts at 8:30 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 8:33 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, run, gave some back. It gapped up 91.0% to $6.76 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $8.40 in 191 minutes through 3 halts, then gave back 117% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $6.47, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.54 | |
| 4:23 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 938,191 shares | |
| 8:48 a.m. | Pre-market high, $7.70 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $6.76, up 91.0% from the previous close | |
| 12:41 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.40 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $6.47, 22.9% 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
- $3.54
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $6.76
- Gap at the open
- +91.0%
- Pre-market high
- $7.70 at 8:48 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.40 at 12:41 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.65
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $6.47
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +82.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.63 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 21.35 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 681,523
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 68.7×
- Float
- 938,191 shares, from filings as of August 31, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.31 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 8.51 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (39%), 2.95 million in the first 30 minutes (13%), and 10.58 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (48%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 938,191 shares: past it once at 4:23 a.m., twice at 6:38 a.m., three times at 6:58 a.m.
- Other days AEHL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 10, the latest on November 4, 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 (3)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:36 a.m. | 9:41 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 9.7% | $6.49, unchanged | down 5.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:16 p.m. | 12:21 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 14.8% | $7.79, up 2.5% | down 10.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:36 p.m. | 12:41 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 12.6% | $8.29, up 2.1% | down 17.4% | 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.
Trade this day
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