Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 6, 2026
MOBX, October 6: the $1.20 wall, $1.26, and a fade to $1.11
MOBX opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.26 during the session.
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
News, then a flat open
The news came a day early: Mobix Labs' acquisition target SPD would buy rare earth firm Winner Water. MOBX closed that day at $0.65 and opened flat at $0.655.
Through $1.00
The buying came late morning. It hit $0.92 by 11:13, fell to $0.70, then crossed $1.00 by 12:37.
The $1.20 wall
Here, sellers stacked stock at round prices. A $1.20 wall peaked near 189K shares, with more offered at $1.25 and $1.30. Price chopped under it for over an hour.
Stop It's 2:22. MOBX is at $1.15. Just above, a $1.20 ask wall has been up since 12:46 and peaked near 188,000 shares, with more offered at $1.25 and $1.30. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:19 p.m. and stop at 2:22 p.m. ET for your call.
At 2:22:50 buyers hit it. 149K shares traded at $1.20 in 4 seconds, and the wall was gone.
The $1.25 wall fell next. The high of $1.26 came at 2:29.
Fade to the close
The top held. A push at 3:00 stopped at $1.20, and it closed at $1.11, 12% under the high.
What to take from it: The $1.20 wall broke in seconds, but the run topped only six cents above it.
Replay MOBX's day
It starts at 10:55 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:58 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
Intraday run. It opened up 0.8% at $0.655, then ran from the open to the high of $1.26 in 299 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:10 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.681 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.655, up 0.8% from the previous close | |
| 11:04 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.6501 | |
| 12:46 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 15.17 million shares | |
| 2:29 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.26 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.11, 11.9% 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
- $0.6501
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.655
- Gap at the open
- +0.8%
- Pre-market high
- $0.681 at 4:10 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.26 at 2:29 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.63
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.11
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +70.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.17 at 4:21 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 28.58 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.81 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 11.7×
- Float
- 15.17 million shares, from filings as of October 6, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 16.85 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 139,238 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 99,805 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 30.15 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 15.17 million shares: past it once at 12:46 p.m., twice at 7:33 p.m.
- Other days MOBX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 8, 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 MOBX 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.
Trade this day
Replay MOBX on October 6, 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.