Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 14, 2026
ALP, October 14: news, one halt, and $5.22
ALP opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $5.22 through one halt during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 7:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $4.80, on 304K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.76. It ran to $5.22 by 10:18 a.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 10:13 a.m.
The close
It closed at $3.69, 29% 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 6.5% at $3.76, then ran from the open to the high of $5.22 in 48 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:00 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Alpha Compute Signs Binding GPU Contract, Leasing ALPHA-03 cluster under Four-Year, $81.7 Million Agreement in its Missouri Superintelligence Factory |
| 7:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.80 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.76, down 6.5% from the previous close |
| 10:18 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.02 |
| 10:18 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.22 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.69, 29.3% 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
- $4.02
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.76
- Gap at the open
- −6.5%
- Pre-market high
- $4.80 at 7:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.22 at 10:18 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.52
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.69
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −8.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.00 at 5:40 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 759,526
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 6,746
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 11.2×
- Float
- 1.50 million shares, from filings as of October 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.55 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 3 hours 18 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 7:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 303,655 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (40%), 23,821 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 438,796 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (57%).
- Other days ALP met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on October 7, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:13 a.m. | 10:18 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 18.3% | $4.89, up 2.3% | down 11.7% | 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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