Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 19, 2026
SAIQ, October 19: an after-hours run to $5.10
SAIQ barely moved in the regular session, then ran to $5.10 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.55, on 87K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.31.
The close
It closed at $3.33, 6% under its high. After the close it ran to $5.10 by 7:58 p.m.
What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened up 4.7% at $3.31 and traded at $3.33 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 53.2% from $3.33 to $5.10 at 7:58 p.m. after the close, on 1.09 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:10 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.55 |
| 4:10 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.55 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.31, up 4.7% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.33, 6.2% below the high |
| 5:48 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.16 |
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
- $3.16
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.31
- Gap at the open
- +4.7%
- Pre-market high
- $3.55 at 4:10 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.55 at 4:10 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.10
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.33
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +5.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.10 at 7:58 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 175,889
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.09 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 0.5×
- Float
- 3.41 million shares, from filings as of October 19, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 42.81 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 87,497 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (7%), 16,443 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 1.16 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (92%).
- Other days SAIQ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on October 23, 2026.
- The next session, October 20, 2026, it was up 100.6% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
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 SAIQ 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.
Trade this day
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