Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 26, 2026
APXC, October 26: an after-hours run to $10.00
APXC barely moved in the regular session, then ran to $10.00 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $6.29, on 24K shares.
The open
It opened down 15%, at $5.59.
The close
It closed at $5.66, 10% under its high. After the close it ran to $10.00 by 4:19 p.m.
What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened down 15.3% at $5.59 and traded at $5.66 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 76.7% from $5.66 to $10.00 at 4:19 p.m. after the close, on 704,397 shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:01 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.29 |
| 4:01 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.29 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.59, down 15.3% from the previous close |
| 3:57 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.66, 10.0% below the high |
| 4:13 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $6.60 |
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
- $6.60
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.59
- Gap at the open
- −15.3%
- Pre-market high
- $6.29 at 4:01 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.29 at 4:01 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.97
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.66
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −14.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $10.00 at 4:19 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 47,082
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 704,397
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 46.8×
- Float
- not available
- Shares outstanding
- not available
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 23,692 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (3%), 7,813 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 719,974 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (96%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day APXC met the small-cap rule.
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 APXC 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 APXC on October 26, 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.