Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 2, 2026
AMOD, October 2: the $4.00 wall, one halt, and $4.77
AMOD more than doubled at the open, ran to $4.77 through one halt, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
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A hot open
AMOD came in far above its $1.17 close, with an 8-K filed at 8:35 a.m. By 4:09 a.m. more shares had traded than the whole 1.1M float. It reached $3.60 before the bell and opened at $3.48.
The $4.00 wall
A big offer stood in the way. From 9:17 on, stock sat offered at exactly $4.00, about 160K shares by 9:40.
Stop It's 9:40. AMOD is at $3.77. About 160,000 shares are offered at $4.00, which is 15% of the float. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:37 a.m. and stop at 9:40 a.m. ET for your call.
Here's what happened. At 9:40:42, 71K shares traded at $4.00 in under a second, and the wall was gone.
A minute later it ran to $4.56 and was halted at 9:41:37.
The 9:41 halt
Stop It's 9:46. AMOD has been halted since 9:41 with the last trade at $4.56, and is about to reopen. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:43 a.m. and stop at 9:46 a.m. ET for your call.
Here's what happened. It reopened at 9:46:37 with one 344K-share print at $4.54, then fell to $4.09 that minute.
At 9:47 it hit $4.77, the high. A push at 10:09 stopped at $4.27. It faded to $3.08 by 1:50 p.m. and closed at $3.50.
What to take from it: The $4.00 wall broke in a second, but the halt reopen cost far more than the screen showed.
Replay AMOD's day
It starts at 9:25 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:28 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 197.4% to $3.48 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $4.77 in 17 minutes through a halt, then gave back 98% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $3.50, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.17 | |
| 4:09 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.11 million shares | |
| 9:24 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.60 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.48, up 197.4% from the previous close | |
| 9:47 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.77 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.50, 26.6% 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
- $1.17
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.48
- Gap at the open
- +197.4%
- Pre-market high
- $3.60 at 9:24 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.77 at 9:47 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.82
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.50
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +199.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.93 at 5:08 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 77.64 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.33 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 172.7×
- Float
- 1.11 million shares, from filings as of October 2, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.99 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 43.58 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (54%), 16.01 million in the first 30 minutes (20%), and 21.38 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (26%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.11 million shares: past it once at 4:09 a.m., twice at 4:21 a.m., three times at 4:47 a.m.
- Other days AMOD met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 7, the latest on October 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:41 a.m. | 9:46 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 29.9% | $4.54, down 0.4% | down 10.6% | 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.
Trade this day
Replay AMOD on October 2, 2026 in Hindsight Markets: the real tape, the order book and the halts, on a clock you control, and see where your orders would have filled.