Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 12, 2026
AIXI, October 12: a run to $3.21
AIXI opened near its previous close, then ran to $3.21 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.21, on 144K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.06. It ran to $3.21 by 12:16 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.41, 25% 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 up 1.5% at $2.06, then ran from the open to the high of $3.21 in 166 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.21 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.06, up 1.5% from the previous close |
| 9:42 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.03 |
| 9:45 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 549,579 shares |
| 12:16 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.21 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.41, 24.9% 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
- $2.03
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.06
- Gap at the open
- +1.5%
- Pre-market high
- $2.21 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.21 at 12:16 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.00
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.41
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +18.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.05 at 6:08 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 8.63 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 800,646
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 1.5×
- Float
- 549,579 shares, from filings as of October 12, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 565,211
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 143,950 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 651,810 in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 8.63 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (92%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 549,579 shares: past it once at 9:45 a.m., twice at 10:55 a.m., three times at 11:56 a.m.
- Other days AIXI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 11, the latest on October 23, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for AIXI 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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