Recaps · August 14, 2026

AEHL, August 14: five halts and $7.87

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Intraday run
• Main move: 10 a.m. hour
• Halted five times
• Halt reopen gaps
• Float traded about 1x
• Faded back to the prior close

Float

938,191 shares

Volume

1.11 million shares

Previous close

$4.73

Open

$4.47 (up 5.5%)

High

$7.87 at 10:27 a.m.

Halts

5 (10:07 a.m. and 10:12 a.m. and 10:28 a.m. and 10:35 a.m. and 10:41 a.m.)

Close

$4.79

Pre-market: up to $6.36, then down to $3.85

The official close on the 13th was $4.73. The first trades on the 14th were at $5.02 at 4:05 a.m. Our data has no news headline for the day.

From $4.81 at 5:39 a.m. it ran to $6.31 at 6:06 a.m., up 31%. It pulled back to $5.30 at 6:10, then pushed to the pre-market high, $6.36 at 6:13 a.m.

The reversal was fast. The 6:14 candle fell from $5.69 to $4.30. By 6:20 a.m. it was $3.85, down 39% from the high. From 6:22 until the open it traded between about $4.06 and $4.50. 380,774 shares traded before the bell.

The open and the slow climb

It opened at $4.47, down 5% from the $4.73 close. By 9:32 it was down to $4.22, the low since the open. Then it crept up. It was $4.65 at 9:44, $4.97 at 10:01, and it traded through $5.00 in the 10:04 minute.

The 10:06 candle ran from $5.26 to $5.60 on 7,980 shares. That was more volume than any minute since the open.

Halts one and two

At 10:07 a.m. it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $5.60. Five minutes later the halt ended.

It reopened at 10:12:00 and ran to $6.38 within the minute. At 10:12:18 it was halted again, with the last trade at $6.38.

This second halt lasted 15 minutes. It reopened at 10:27:19 at $7.61, 19% above the $6.38 where it stopped. The first print was 26,704 shares at $7.61.

The 10:27 reopen and the third halt

The high so far, $7.87, came in the 10:27 minute, the same minute as the reopen. That minute closed at $6.85, so the whole move up from the reopen was given back inside the minute. At 10:28:03 it was halted a third time, with the last trade at $6.85.

It reopened at 10:33:03 at $7.00, 2% above where it stopped. The first print was 24,847 shares at $7.00. By the end of that minute it was at $7.58.

Here's what happened. At 10:34:09, one sell order of 33,009 shares went through 33 price levels, from $7.58 down to $7.00. $7.58 was a lower high under the $7.87 top. The minute's low was $6.43. At 10:34:26 a buy order of 10,077 shares ran from $6.43 to $6.52, and the minute closed at $6.73. It was the heaviest minute of the day, with 153,026 shares.

Halts four and five

At 10:35:28 it was halted a fourth time, with the last trade at $6.33. It reopened at 10:40:28 at $6.17, below where it stopped. By 10:41 it was $5.39, and at 10:41:39 it was halted a fifth time.

It reopened at 10:46:39 at $5.65, 5% above the $5.39 last trade.

The 10:47 candle fell to $4.95 and closed at $5.00 on 26,224 shares.

The rest of the day

It was $4.25 at 11:08 a.m. From then until 4 p.m. it stayed between $4.25 and $5.10. At 3:59 p.m. it was $4.79, close to the previous close of $4.73. In the 4:00 minute, 961 shares traded at $4.94.

For the whole day, 1.11 million shares traded: the float changed hands a little more than once, at about 4 times its normal volume.

What to take from it

• A halt reopen can be the thinnest, most expensive moment to buy. Every fill here paid well above the screen: $544 at 10:27:20 and $2,156 at 10:46:40, on 5,000 shares.
• After the top, the next push stopped lower. $7.87 in the 10:27 minute, then $7.58 at 10:34. The 10:34 minute then ran down to $6.43.
• The whole move was gone by the afternoon. From the $7.87 high, it was $4.79 at 3:59 p.m., 39% lower and near the $4.73 previous close.