Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 14, 2026
AEHL on August 14, 2026: why it ran
On August 14, 2026, AEHL opened down 5.5% from the previous close of 4.73 and reached 7.87 at 10:27 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it 5 times.
- Previous close
- 4.73
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 4.47
- Gap at the open
- down 5.5%
- Pre-market high
- 6.36 at 6:13 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 7.87 at 10:27 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.85
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.94 at 4:00 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 4.79
- Volume
- 1.11 million
- Relative volume
- 3.9x
- Float
- 938,191 shares, from filings as of August 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.31 million
Replay AEHL's day
It starts at 9:54 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:57 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
- 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
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.
Stop It's 10:12. AEHL is coming out of a volatility halt that began at 10:07. The last trade before the halt was $5.60. It is reopening at $5.80, above the $4.47 open. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 10:12 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 10:09 a.m. ET.
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.
Stop It's 10:34. AEHL is at $7.58. It reopened from its third halt a minute ago at $7.00. The high so far is $7.87. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 10:34 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 10:31 a.m. ET.
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.
Stop It's 10:47. AEHL reopened a minute ago at $5.65 and is trading at $5.64. Twenty minutes ago it was at $7.87. Would you buy this dip?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 10:47 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 10:44 a.m. ET.
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.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for AEHL published between the previous session's close and the first minute AEHL traded 20% above it, at 6:05 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Intraday run. It opened down 5.5% at 4.47, then ran from the open to the high of 7.87 in 57 minutes through two halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 6:05 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 4.73 | |
| 6:13 a.m. | Pre-market high, 6.36 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 4.47, down 5.5% from the previous close | |
| 10:07 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 10:12 a.m. | |
| 10:12 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 10:27 a.m. | |
| 10:27 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 7.87 | |
| 10:28 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 10:33 a.m. | |
| 10:35 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 10:40 a.m. | |
| 10:41 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 10:46 a.m. | |
| 10:47 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 938,191 shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 4.79, 39.1% below the high |
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
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 380,774 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (34%), 14,323 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 714,817 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (64%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 938,191 shares: past it once at 10:47 a.m.
- The halt at 10:07 a.m.: up 12.7% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 5.80, up 3.6% from the last trade before it.
- The halt at 10:12 a.m.: up 13.9% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 7.61, up 19.3% from the last trade before it, then down 10.0% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 10:28 a.m.: up 7.4% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 7.00, up 2.2% from the last trade before it, then down 9.6% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 10:35 a.m.: down 7.6% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 6.17, down 2.5% from the last trade before it, then down 12.6% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 10:41 a.m.: down 14.8% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 5.65, up 4.8% from the last trade before it, then down 6.7% over the next 5 minutes.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:07 a.m. | 10:12 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:12 a.m. | 10:27 a.m. | 15 min 1 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:28 a.m. | 10:33 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:35 a.m. | 10:40 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:41 a.m. | 10:46 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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.
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