Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 8, 2026
AMOD, October 8: a run to $3.06
AMOD opened near its previous close, then ran to $3.06 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.32, on 25K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.19. It ran to $3.06 by 9:51 a.m.
The close
It closed at $2.31, 25% under 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 3.5% at $2.19, then ran from the open to the high of $3.06 in 21 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.32 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.19, down 3.5% from the previous close |
| 9:49 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.27 |
| 9:51 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.06 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.31, 24.5% 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
- $2.27
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.19
- Gap at the open
- −3.5%
- Pre-market high
- $2.32 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.06 at 9:51 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.15
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.31
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +1.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.39 at 4:18 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.48 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 61,787
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 0.3×
- Float
- 52.74 million shares, from filings as of October 8, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 56.61 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 25,262 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 778,540 in the first 30 minutes (51%), and 737,586 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (48%).
- 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for AMOD 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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