Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 30, 2026
CHOW, October 30: a quiet open, four halts, and $7.38
CHOW opened near its previous close, then ran to $7.38 through four halts during the session.
What happened
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Dead quiet, then a halt
CHOW opened at $2.07, below the $2.13 previous close, and drifted to $1.96 by 10:02. 1,557 shares traded pre-market. Then it moved: halted at 10:08:49 after a jump from $1.98 to $2.39, it reopened at 10:18:49 near $2.50. Two more halts followed, at 10:25 and 10:35, and by 10:40 it was at $4.05.
Straight up to $7.38
The run kept going with no news on the page. It hit $5.96 at 10:49 and $7.10 at 10:58. The high of the day was $7.38 in the 11:02 minute, up 246% from the previous close. By 11:05 it had traded as low as $5.54.
A fourth halt and a long fade
A lower high came at 11:09 with $6.60. It slid to $4.60 and was halted at 11:14:02, reopening at 11:19:02 near $4.59. It bounced to about $5, dipped to $4.11 at 11:44, then spent noon to 1 p.m. between about $4.65 and $5.84. At 1:30 p.m. GlobeNewsWire ran a headline on the closing of a private placement. It closed at $4.37, 41% under the high. Regular-session volume was 24M shares, about 20 times the 1.2M float.
What to take from it: A stock can run 246% with no news before it, and by the close more than a third of the high was gone.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened down 2.8% at $2.07, then ran from the open to the high of $7.38 in 92 minutes through 3 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:10 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.13 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.07, down 2.8% from the previous close |
| 10:20 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.13 |
| 10:34 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.19 million shares |
| 11:02 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $7.38 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.37, 40.8% 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
- $2.13
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.07
- Gap at the open
- −2.8%
- Pre-market high
- $2.13 at 4:10 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.38 at 11:02 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.96
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.37
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +105.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.00 at 4:08 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 24.18 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.29 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 85.2×
- Float
- 1.19 million shares, from filings as of October 30, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.64 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1,557 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 6,001 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 25.46 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.19 million shares: past it once at 10:34 a.m., twice at 10:42 a.m., three times at 10:48 a.m.
- Other days CHOW met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on October 19, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. 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 (4)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:08 a.m. | 10:18 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 21.9% | $2.50, up 4.6% | up 7.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:25 a.m. | 10:30 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 32.2% | $3.20, down 5.0% | up 26.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:35 a.m. | 10:40 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 30.3% | $4.05, up 0.2% | up 17.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 11:14 a.m. | 11:19 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 25.2% | $4.59, down 0.2% | up 5.4% | 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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