Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 27, 2026
AMOD on August 27, 2026: why it ran
On August 27, 2026, AMOD opened down 17.6% from the previous close of 3.81 and reached 4.98 at 8:53 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it 2 times.
- Previous close
- 3.81
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 3.14
- Gap at the open
- down 17.6%
- Pre-market high
- 4.98 at 8:53 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.98 at 8:53 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.52
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.84 at 4:00 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 2.80
- Volume
- 749,777
- Relative volume
- 46.7x
- Float
- 1.11 million shares, from filings as of August 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.99 million
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for AMOD published between the previous session's close and the first minute AMOD traded 20% above it, at 8:53 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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Alpha Modus Advances Transaction to Add More Than $200 Million in Bitcoin Assets to Its Balance Sheet
News via Stock News API
How it traded
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:53 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Alpha Modus Advances Transaction to Add More Than $200 Million in Bitcoin Assets to Its Balance Sheet |
| 8:53 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 3.81 |
| 8:53 a.m. | Pre-market high, 4.98 |
| 8:53 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 4.98 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 3.14, down 17.6% from the previous close |
| 9:35 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:40 a.m. |
| 9:41 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:46 a.m. |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 2.80, 43.8% 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
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 8:53 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 464,789 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (62%), 85,296 in the first 30 minutes (11%), and 199,692 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (27%).
- The halt at 9:35 a.m.: down 13.4% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 2.70, down 0.7% from the last trade before it, then up 5.9% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 9:41 a.m.: up 5.1% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.00, up 4.9% from the last trade before it, then down 4.0% over the next 5 minutes.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:35 a.m. | 9:40 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:41 a.m. | 9:46 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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