Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 15, 2026
MF, October 15: one halt and $11.28
MF opened near its previous close, then ran to $11.28 through one halt during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $9.57, on 110 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $8.82. It ran to $11.28 by 1:27 p.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 10:32 a.m.
The close
It closed at $10.71, 5% 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 0.3% at $8.82, then ran from the open to the high of $11.28 in 237 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:24 a.m. | Pre-market high, $9.57 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $8.82, down 0.3% from the previous close |
| 12:26 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $8.85 |
| 1:27 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $11.28 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $10.71, 5.1% 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
- $8.85
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $8.82
- Gap at the open
- −0.3%
- Pre-market high
- $9.57 at 9:24 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $11.28 at 1:27 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.71
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $10.71
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +21.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $10.88 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 266,636
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3,222
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 5.1×
- Float
- 1.51 million shares, from filings as of October 15, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.51 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 110 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 3,466 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 266,282 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Other days MF met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 20, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:32 a.m. | 10:42 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 10.4% | $10.51, up 0.2% | down 6.8% | 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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