Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 3, 2026
AIMD on August 3, 2026: why it ran
On August 3, 2026, AIMD opened up 2.3% from the previous close of 1.33 and reached 1.48 at 11:06 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 1.33
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 1.36
- Gap at the open
- up 2.3%
- Pre-market high
- 1.33 at 7:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.48 at 11:06 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.33
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.41 at 6:38 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 1.47
- Volume
- 1.87 million
- Relative volume
- 138.9x
- Float
- 3.14 million shares, from filings as of August 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.54 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Replay AIMD's day
It starts at 10:56 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:59 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The day, step by step
- Small cap
- Thin float
- Main move: after hours
- Quiet regular session
- Earnings release (10-Q)
- After-hours spike
- After-hours fade
Pre-market: almost nothing
The previous close was $1.33. Pre-market was nearly empty. The high was $1.33 at 7:00 a.m. 7 shares traded before the bell, a few at a time, with the last at 9:29.
The open and a long flat stretch
It opened at $1.36, up 2% from the previous close. The 9:30 minute traded 943 shares, the biggest volume of the morning so far. After that, most minutes had no trades at all.
From 9:56 to 10:18 it sat between $1.36 and $1.37, trading a few shares at a time. The 10:10 minute had 643 shares, and the price dipped to $1.36 and came back.
Stop It's 10:23. AIMD is at $1.37. Since 9:56 it has traded between $1.36 and $1.37, and most minutes have no trades. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 10:23 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 10:20 a.m. ET.
The 10:23 minute traded 2,213 shares and ran from $1.37 to $1.42. It closed the minute at $1.39. That is a small number of shares, but on a stock this quiet it was a big minute.
The climb to $1.48
It then moved up in small steps. It was $1.42 at 10:35, and it touched $1.45 at 10:51. At 11:05 it traded 1,958 shares between $1.44 and $1.46.
At 11:06 a.m. it printed $1.48, the high of the regular session, on a 100-share trade. That is up 11% from the previous close. It held $1.48 until 11:22 and slipped to $1.47 at 11:25.
The rest of the regular session
From 11:25 on, it mostly printed $1.47, often one or two shares a minute. At 3:22 p.m. it dipped to $1.45 on 2,816 shares, and it was back to $1.47 by 3:59.
The last regular-session trade, at 4:00, was $1.45, up 9% from the previous close. 12,157 shares traded in the regular session, about 0.4% of the 3.14 million-share float.
After hours: the filings and the spike
At 4:21 p.m. the company filed a 10-Q (the quarterly report). At 4:30 p.m. Accesswire ran: “Ainos Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results and Highlights Continued AI Nose Execution Across Industrial, Healthcare Infrastructure and Robotics Markets.”
After that, it traded $1.45 at 4:37 p.m. It traded between $1.44 and $1.49 at 5:10 p.m. At 5:20 p.m. the company filed an 8-K (a current report). It reached $1.59 by 5:39.
The big move came later. At 6:31 p.m. it was $1.65. In the 6:32 minute it traded 12,725 shares, and in the 6:33 minute 107,729 shares traded, which was nearly nine times the entire regular session. The price went through $2 in that minute. The high was $2.41 in the 6:38 p.m. minute.
After hours: the fade
It gave back most of the spike. It was $1.90 at 6:46, $1.62 at 6:54, and $1.53 by 7:03. At 7:40 p.m. it hit $1.41, down 41% from the $2.41 high.
The last bar of the after-hours data, at 7:59, closed at $1.55. After hours had 1,857,165 shares, over 150 times the regular session. Whole-day volume was 1.87 million, about 139 times normal.
What to take from it
- A quiet regular session can say nothing about what comes later. AIMD traded 12,157 shares in the regular session and 1.86 million after it.
- After hours can undo itself fast. It traded at $2.41 at 6:38 p.m. and at $1.41 by 7:40 p.m.
- On a thin stock, even a small order can cost more than the screen shows. The 5,000-share buy at 11:15 averaged $48 over the $1.49 screen price.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for AIMD published between the previous session's close and the first minute AIMD traded 20% above it, at 6:31 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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8-K
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Ainos Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results and Highlights Continued AI Nose Execution Across Industrial, Healthcare Infrastructure and Robotics Markets
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10-Q
News via Stock News API
How it traded
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, 1.33 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 1.36, up 2.3% from the previous close | |
| 11:06 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 1.48 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 1.47, 0.7% below the high | |
| 4:21 p.m. | SEC filing 10-Q: 10-Q | |
| 4:30 p.m. | News (Accesswire): Ainos Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results and Highlights Continued AI Nose Execution Across Industrial, Healthcare Infrastructure and Robotics Markets | |
| 5:20 p.m. | SEC filing 8-K: 8-K | |
| 6:31 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 1.33 |
The shape is a fixed rule, not a judgement: gapped 10% or more at the open, ran 10% or more from the open to the high, and faded if it gave back 30% or more of that move by the close.
The day in numbers
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 hour 10 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 5:20 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 7 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,170 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 1.87 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for AIMD that day.
On this date the LULD plan ran under Amendment 18, in force from February 24, 2020: no band doubling at the open, and the closing doubling only for Tier 1 stocks and Tier 2 stocks whose previous close was at or below three dollars. See LULD halts or work out a band with the LULD calculator.
Trade this day
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