Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 26, 2026
CLRO, October 26: a $5.00 wall, two halts, and $5.85
CLRO opened up 33%, ran to $5.85 through two halts, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
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The float trades before the bell
CLRO closed at $3.25 on the 23rd. By 7:15 a.m. more shares had traded than the 1.03M-share float holds. It reached $4.41 pre-market and opened at $4.33.
A wall at $5.00
Sellers had offered stock at exactly $5.00 since 9:27. The wall peaked at 47K shares, about 5% of the float. The first halt began at 9:37:45 with the last trade at $4.77. It reopened at $4.78.
Stop It's 9:43. CLRO reopened from a halt seconds ago and is at $4.64. A wall of about 47,000 shares has been offered at $5.00 since 9:27. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:40 a.m. and stop at 9:43 a.m. ET for your call.
From 9:43:22, shares traded at $5.00. In 2.2 seconds, 23,931 shares traded there and the wall was gone. Buyers ate it.
It ran to $5.25 by 9:48.
A halt reopens lower, then the top
The second halt began at 9:57:53 with the last trade at $5.21. It reopened at 10:02:53 at $5.00, 4% lower.
It then climbed to $5.85, the high of the day, in the 10:11 minute. A push to $5.54 at 10:18 stayed under it.
The fade
It slid to $4.40 at 10:43 and closed at $4.98, 15% under the high. The regular session traded 19.6M shares.
What to take from it: A 47K-share wall at $5.00 lasted 2.2 seconds once buyers came, and the stock topped out within 30 minutes.
Replay CLRO's day
It starts at 6:58 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 7:01 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
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 33.2% to $4.33 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $5.85 in 41 minutes through two halts, then gave back 57% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $4.98, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:12 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.25 | |
| 7:15 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.03 million shares | |
| 8:58 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.41 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.33, up 33.2% from the previous close | |
| 10:11 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.85 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.98, 14.9% 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
- $3.25
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.33
- Gap at the open
- +33.2%
- Pre-market high
- $4.41 at 8:58 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.85 at 10:11 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.61
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.98
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +53.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.27 at 5:14 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 26.32 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.28 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 19.0×
- Float
- 1.03 million shares, from filings as of October 26, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.68 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 6.68 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (24%), 5.24 million in the first 30 minutes (19%), and 15.68 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (57%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.03 million shares: past it once at 7:15 a.m., twice at 7:31 a.m., three times at 7:54 a.m.
- Other days CLRO met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, the latest on November 2, 2026.
- The next session, October 27, 2026, it was up 2.2% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:37 a.m. | 9:42 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 10.7% | $4.78, up 0.2% | up 3.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:57 a.m. | 10:02 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 5.7% | $5.00, down 4.0% | up 7.6% | 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.
Trade this day
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