Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 28, 2026
POM, October 28: two halts, a $2.95 spike, and a wall at $2.06
POM opened up 12%, ran to $2.95 through two halts, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
No news, fast move
No headline came out. It opened at $1.55 and hit $2.35 by 9:33.
Halted at $2.35
The first halt froze it at 9:34:06 with a 151K-share bid at $2.35.
Stop It's 9:44. POM was halted at 9:34:06 with the last trade at $2.35. The halt is about to end, and it was $1.55 at the open. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:41 a.m. and stop at 9:44 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at 9:44:06 at $2.58 and hit $2.95, the day's high, that minute. The $2.35 bid was pulled at 9:45:00.
The $2.06 wall
A second halt hit at 9:48:59. Just before it, a 154K-share ask wall at $2.06 appeared. It reopened at $1.99 at 9:53:59.
Stop It's 9:54. POM reopened seconds ago, and the 9:54 minute opened at $2.05. An ask wall of about 154,000 shares has sat at $2.06 since 9:48. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:51 a.m. and stop at 9:54 a.m. ET for your call.
Only 22K shares traded at $2.06, and the wall was gone by 9:54:02. It ran to $2.46 by 9:58.
It faded to $1.50 by 12:51 and was $1.80 at 3:59 p.m.
What to take from it: The day's high came at a halt reopen, and most of it was gone by the close.
Replay POM's day
It starts at 9:26 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:29 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 11.5% to $1.55 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $2.95 in 14 minutes through a halt, then gave back 82% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.80, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 8:19 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.60 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.55, up 11.5% from the previous close | |
| 9:31 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.39 | |
| 9:44 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.95 | |
| 9:48 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.45 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.80, 39.0% 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
- $1.39
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.55
- Gap at the open
- +11.5%
- Pre-market high
- $1.60 at 8:19 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.95 at 9:44 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.38
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.80
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +29.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.13 at 4:43 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 11.24 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 795,847
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 7.2×
- Float
- 2.45 million shares, from filings as of October 28, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.09 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 247,411 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 3.81 million in the first 30 minutes (32%), and 7.98 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (66%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.45 million shares: past it once at 9:48 a.m., twice at 10:09 a.m., three times at 10:59 a.m.
- Other days POM met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 27, 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:34 a.m. | 9:44 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 51.6% | $2.58, up 9.8% | down 20.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:48 a.m. | 9:53 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 12.3% | $1.99, down 3.4% | up 15.1% | 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.
Trade this day
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