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AEHL, August 28: a 6-K and $5.22

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AEHL opened down 39% after a 6-K, then ran to $4.10 during the session.

6-K$6.70$5.09$2.404 a.m.9:30noon4 p.m.8 p.m.
AEHL on August 28, 2026, one-minute bars, New York time. Bands: halts. Flags: the news or filing before the move. Dotted line: the previous close. Shaded: before the 9:30 a.m. open and after the 4:00 p.m. close.

What happened

Before the open

The news came first: a 6-K at 8:40 a.m. Before the bell it reached $5.22, on 79K shares.

The open

It opened down 39%, at $3.08. It ran to $4.10 by 11:56 a.m.

The close

It closed at $3.43, 34% 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 39.5% at $3.08, then ran from the open to the high of $4.10 in 146 minutes.

Time (ET)What happened
4:11 a.m.Pre-market high, $5.22
4:11 a.m.High of the day to the close, $5.22
8:40 a.m.SEC filing 6-K: 6-K
9:30 a.m.The open: $3.08, down 39.5% from the previous close
3:59 p.m.Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.43, 34.3% below the high
4:48 p.m.First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.09
4:53 p.m.Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 938,191 shares

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
$5.09
Open, 9:30 a.m.
$3.08
Gap at the open
−39.5%
Pre-market high
$5.22 at 4:11 a.m.
High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$5.22 at 4:11 a.m.
Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$2.40
Close, 4 p.m.
$3.43
Change at 4 p.m.
−32.6%
After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
$6.70 at 7:59 p.m.
Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
160,848
Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
3.21 million
Relative volume by 8 p.m.
22.1×
Float
938,191 shares, from filings as of August 28, 2026
Shares outstanding
1.31 million
  • From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 8 hours 7 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (6-K, 8:40 a.m.).
  • Volume, from the one-minute bars: 78,601 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 19,099 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 3.27 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (97%).
  • Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 938,191 shares: past it once at 4:53 p.m., twice at 5:24 p.m., three times at 6:09 p.m.
  • Other days AEHL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, the latest on October 14, 2026.
  • The next session, August 31, 2026, it was up 82.9% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.

On the day's lists: the intraday runners, after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 AEHL 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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