Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 22, 2026
BKYI, October 22: a 3:59 a.m. headline, $3.39, and a wall at $2.95
BKYI opened up 29% after news, ran to $3.22, then gave back most of the run by the close.
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What happened
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A headline before the open
A GlobeNewsWire headline at 3:59 a.m. announced another Middle East government contract. Pre-market volume reached 6.55M shares, more than three times the 1.99M-share float. From $2.10 at 4:00 it hit $3.39 at 4:16, the high of the day.
By the end of 4:17 it was back at $3.08. The regular session opened at $2.71.
The wall at $2.95
From 9:12 an ask wall sat at $2.95. It peaked at 43,937 shares at 10:24, about 2% of the float. The stock was at $2.85 then.
Stop It's 10:30. BKYI is at $2.83. A large ask wall has been offered at $2.95 since 9:12. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:27 a.m. and stop at 10:30 a.m. ET for your call.
At 10:30:39 22,020 shares traded at $2.95 in under a second and the wall was gone. The high that minute was $2.97, and the next minute it dipped to $2.66.
The $3.00 wall and the close
Another ask wall at $3.00 peaked near 32,000 shares at 10:27 and was eaten at 10:55:38, when 18,878 shares traded there. The stock reached $3.10 that minute, still under the morning high.
Its next high was $3.22 at 11:29, below the $3.39 high. It closed at $2.74, 19% under the high. The regular session traded 5.9M shares.
What to take from it: Walls at $2.95 and $3.00 were eaten, yet the stock never got back to the $3.39 pre-market high.
Replay BKYI's day
It starts at 10:41 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:44 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 29.0% to $2.71 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $3.22 in 119 minutes, then gave back 95% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $2.73, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 3:59 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): BIO-key Secures Another Middle East Government Contract for its Passwordless, Biometric, Identity and Access Management Solutions | |
| 4:06 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.10 | |
| 4:16 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.39 | |
| 4:16 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.39 | |
| 4:26 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.99 million shares | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.71, up 29.0% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.73, 19.3% 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
- $2.10
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.71
- Gap at the open
- +29.0%
- Pre-market high
- $3.39 at 4:16 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.39 at 4:16 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.10
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.73
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +30.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.10 at 6:45 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 12.47 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 474,624
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.2×
- Float
- 1.99 million shares, from filings as of October 22, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.04 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 7 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 3:59 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 6.55 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (51%), 965,798 in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 5.43 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (42%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.99 million shares: past it once at 4:26 a.m., twice at 5:34 a.m., three times at 8:07 a.m.
- Other days BKYI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, 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 BKYI 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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