Recaps · October 12, 2026

MNDR, October 12: two halts, three ask walls, and $5.67

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Gap, run and fade
• Halted twice
• Ask wall eaten
• Float traded 214x

Float

448,776 shares

Volume

97.69 million shares

Previous close

$0.8450

Open

$2.59 (up 206.5%)

High

$5.67 at 11:16 a.m.

Halts

2 (10:19 a.m. and 11:36 a.m.)

Close

$3.04

Pre-market: the float traded by 7:10 a.m.

The first trades on the 12th were at $0.94 at 4:07 a.m., already above the $0.845 close. For the next three hours it was quiet, mostly between $0.81 and $0.93, with a few hundred shares a minute. The low so far, $0.81, came at 5:54 a.m.

It woke up at 7:06 a.m., when it traded through $1.00 for the first time. By 7:10 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (448,776). From $0.97 at 7:06 it ran to $2.59 at 7:12 a.m., up 167%. By 7:15 a.m. the volume was ten times the float.

Then it swung. It fell to $1.95 at 7:18 a.m., ran to $2.90 at 7:20, and fell to $1.57 at 7:38 a.m., down 46% from that $2.90. It ran to $2.49 at 7:55 and fell to $1.89 at 8:04 a.m., then to $1.78 in the 8:16 minute. It reached $2.61 at 8:17 and was at $1.98 a minute later.

From $2.05 at 8:19 a.m. it ran to the pre-market high, $3.21 at 8:34 a.m. Then it dropped to $2.09 at 8:44 a.m., down 35%. One more push reached $2.90 at 9:10 a.m., and by 9:12 a.m. it was at $2.23. 46.79 million shares traded before the bell.

The open, and the first halt

It opened at $2.59, up 207% from the previous close. The 9:30 minute dipped to $2.30, then it climbed. From $2.30 it ran to $3.74 at 9:45 a.m., up 63%. Then it fell to $2.83 at 9:55 a.m., down 24%.

At 10:00 it was $3.03. By 10:16 it was $3.63, and then it went fast. A buy order swept 89,168 shares from $3.70 to $3.85 across 16 price levels at 10:17:34. A second sweep took 61,185 shares from $3.89 to $4.00 one second later.

At 10:19 a.m. it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $4.52. Level 2 shows what sat under the price while it was stopped. A bid wall at $4.52 peaked at 138,594 shares, 30.9% of the float, at 10:19:19. It was pulled at 10:24:22, a second after the reopen, with only 2,658 shares traded at $4.52.

It reopened at 10:24 a.m. at $4.52. In the first second a single print of 118,517 shares went through at $4.25. The 10:24 minute traded as low as $3.85. The next minute it reached $5.28 at 10:25 a.m. From $3.03 at 10:00, that is up 74%.

The wall at $5.00

It ran to $5.33 at 10:35 a.m., then fell to $3.72 at 10:45 a.m., down 30%. From 10:44 someone was offering stock at exactly $5.00. By 11:02 the wall had grown to 72,948 shares, 16.2% of the float.

From $3.85 at 10:51 the stock climbed back toward it. By 11:10 it was $4.79.

Here's what happened. At 11:11:12 trades began printing at $5.00. In about a second and a half, 28,451 shares traded at exactly $5.00 and the wall was gone. It wasn't pulled. Buyers ate it. The minute's high was $5.10, but it closed at $4.62.

From $4.52 at 11:15 it ran to $5.67, the high so far, at 11:16 a.m., on 936,124 shares in that one minute. At 11:19 a sell order swept 62,346 shares from $5.14 down to $4.97, and the stock touched $4.68 within three minutes of the high. At 11:21 it pushed up again but stopped at $5.30, below the $5.67 top.

The second halt and the wall at $3.90

From 11:25 it slid. At 11:34 it was $4.84. In the 11:35 minute it fell to $3.90, and at 11:36 a.m. it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $3.90.

Level 2 shows another ask wall just above the price. An ask wall at $3.90 appeared at 11:35:57 and reached 109,421 shares, 24.4% of the float, at 11:36:11, the second the halt began.

It reopened at 11:41:11 at $3.78, 3% below where it stopped. The first print was 89,631 shares. At 11:41:26 buyers took the $3.90 level: 13,638 shares traded at exactly $3.90 in a tenth of a second, and the wall was gone. The minute closed at $4.20.

Midday, and another wall at $3.90

After the second halt it went quieter. The stock chopped between about $3.63 and $4.83 from 11:41 a.m. to 1:23 p.m., with volume down to a few tens of thousands of shares a minute.

At 1:24 p.m. a 68,169-share sell order swept from $3.64 to $3.50. At 1:28 another sell order, 67,104 shares, went through 31 price levels, from $3.67 to $3.37. The low of that slide was $3.23 at 1:29.

From 1:25 p.m. on, someone was again offering a lot of stock at exactly $3.90. It peaked at 63,526 shares at 1:30 p.m., about 14% of the float. The stock spent over an hour below it, mostly between $2.96 and $3.86.

At 2:42:50 the first trade printed at $3.90. In under a second, 49,584 shares traded at exactly $3.90 and the wall was gone. It wasn't pulled. Buyers ate it.

It reached $4.45 by 2:45 p.m. At 2:46:59 a sell order swept 59,339 shares from $4.25 to $3.99, and the 2:46 minute closed at $4.00.

The close and after hours

It kept fading: $3.94 at 3:00 p.m., $2.85 at 3:54 p.m., and $3.04 at the close, 46% below the $5.67 high.

From 4 a.m. to the close, 95.82 million shares traded (46.79 million pre-market plus 49.03 million in the regular session): the float changed hands about 214 times, at 589 times its normal volume.

After hours it fell from $3.10 at 4:00 p.m. to $2.28 by 7:56 p.m., down 26%. The day had no news in our data.

What to take from it

• A big ask wall can be eaten in a second or two. At $5.00 and at $3.90 the stock traded through in seconds. The screen price just after a break was not the price a market order got.
• A halt can reopen lower than it stopped. The 11:36 a.m. halt stopped at $3.90 and reopened at $3.78.
• The pushes after the top stopped lower. $5.67 at 11:16 a.m., then $5.45 at 11:18 a.m. and $5.30 at 11:21 a.m. The stock closed at $3.04.