Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 26, 2026
BRAI, October 26: news, three halts, and $5.02
BRAI opened up 21% after news, ran to $5.02 through three halts, then fell below its open by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 9:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $4.20, on 10K shares.
The open
It opened up 21%, at $4.28. It ran to $5.02 by 12:16 p.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it three times, from 10:49 a.m. to 3:35 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.11, 58% under its high.
What to take from it: The whole move was given back: it finished below the price it opened at.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 20.6% to $4.28 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $5.02 in 166 minutes through a halt, then gave back 393% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $2.11, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Braiin Targets USD 56.9 Billion CX Software Market with Agentic AI Expansion and Major Upgrade to RADIUS CX Platform |
| 9:29 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.20 |
| 9:30 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.55 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.28, up 20.6% from the previous close |
| 12:16 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.02 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.11, 58.0% 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
- $3.55
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.28
- Gap at the open
- +20.6%
- Pre-market high
- $4.20 at 9:29 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.02 at 12:16 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.10
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.11
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −40.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.41 at 7:06 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.07 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.56 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 104.3×
- Float
- not available
- Shares outstanding
- not available
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 30 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 9:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 10,261 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 206,784 in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 2.42 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (92%).
- Other days BRAI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on November 2, 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 (3)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:49 a.m. | 10:54 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 10.9% | $4.29, up 0.5% | up 3.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:16 p.m. | 3:21 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 19.1% | $3.33, down 1.5% | down 6.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:35 p.m. | 3:40 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 9.1% | $2.47, down 1.2% | down 6.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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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