Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 27, 2026
AIOK, October 27: two halts, a $17.72 top, and $13.41
AIOK opened up 48%, ran to $17.72 through two halts, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
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A thin float wakes up early
AIOK started the day under its $9.16 previous close, at $8.69. It jumped at 4:30 a.m. and reached $11.65 by 4:48. By 7:05 a.m. more shares had traded than the 1.11M-share float. It opened at $13.60, up 48%.
Two halts, two reopens
The open ran straight into a volatility halt at 9:32:31, with the last trade at $15.74. It reopened at 9:37:31 at $15.38, below where it stopped.
It ran to $17.08 by 9:38. The high came at 9:47 a.m.: $17.72. The next minute it traded as low as $15.86. A second halt began at 9:52:57 and reopened at 9:57:57 at $14.62. A 5,000-share buy there averaged $15.19, $1,629 above the $14.86 screen price.
The rest of the morning and the afternoon
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It pushed to $17.28, under the top, and sold off from there. By 11:25 it was at $13.40. Bid walls of 50,000 shares came and went in the afternoon: one at $12.75 was pulled at 2:49:01 p.m.
It closed at $13.41, 24% under the high. The regular session traded 8.6M shares, about eight times the float.
What to take from it: The $17.72 top came 17 minutes after the open, and the next push stopped at $17.28.
Replay AIOK's day
It starts at 9:19 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:22 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 48.5% to $13.60 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $17.72 in 17 minutes through a halt, then gave back 105% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $13.41, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:39 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $9.16 | |
| 7:01 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.11 million shares | |
| 9:29 a.m. | Pre-market high, $13.76 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $13.60, up 48.5% from the previous close | |
| 9:47 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $17.72 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $13.41, 24.3% 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
- $9.16
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $13.60
- Gap at the open
- +48.5%
- Pre-market high
- $13.76 at 9:29 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $17.72 at 9:47 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.69
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $13.41
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +46.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $14.40 at 6:39 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 12.53 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 273,170
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 12.3×
- Float
- 1.11 million shares, from filings as of October 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.32 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3.90 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (30%), 3.12 million in the first 30 minutes (24%), and 5.78 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (45%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.11 million shares: past it once at 7:01 a.m., twice at 8:51 a.m., three times at 9:08 a.m.
- Other days AIOK met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 30, 2026.
- The next session, October 28, 2026, it gapped up 30.6% at 9:30 a.m.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:32 a.m. | 9:37 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 18.3% | $15.38, down 2.3% | up 4.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:52 a.m. | 9:57 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 15.9% | $14.62, down 0.4% | up 6.0% | 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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