Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 5, 2026
APT, October 5: a run to $6.04
APT opened near its previous close, then ran to $6.04 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $5.85, on 11K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $5.23. It ran to $6.04 by 1:23 p.m.
The close
It closed at $5.82, 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 up 2.8% at $5.23, then ran from the open to the high of $6.04 in 233 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:56 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.85 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.23, up 2.8% from the previous close |
| 1:23 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.04 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.82, 3.6% below the high |
| 6:54 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.09 |
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
- $5.09
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.23
- Gap at the open
- +2.8%
- Pre-market high
- $5.85 at 8:56 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.04 at 1:23 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.22
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.82
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +14.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.15 at 6:54 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 256,928
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 9,767
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 19.4×
- Float
- 8.63 million shares, from filings as of October 5, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.21 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 11,264 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (4%), 42,288 in the first 30 minutes (16%), and 213,143 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (80%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day APT met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers. 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for APT 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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