Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 20, 2026
HUIZ, October 20: a run to $2.63
HUIZ opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.63 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.00, on 3K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.99. It ran to $2.63 by 10:44 a.m.
The close
It closed at $2.53, 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 1.0% at $1.99, then ran from the open to the high of $2.63 in 74 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:29 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.00 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.99, up 1.0% from the previous close |
| 10:22 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.97 |
| 10:44 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.63 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.53, 3.8% 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
- $1.97
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.99
- Gap at the open
- +1.0%
- Pre-market high
- $2.00 at 9:29 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.63 at 10:44 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.82
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.53
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +28.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.78 at 6:24 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.17 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 84,447
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 9.3×
- Float
- 6.16 million shares, from filings as of October 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.11 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3,286 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 60,058 in the first 30 minutes (5%), and 1.19 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (95%).
- Other days HUIZ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 16, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. 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 HUIZ 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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