Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on October 1, 2026
MEDS on October 1, 2026: why it ran
On October 1, 2026, MEDS opened up 22.7% from the previous close of 3.17 and reached 5.43 at 6:14 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 3.17
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 3.89
- Gap at the open
- up 22.7%
- Pre-market high
- 5.43 at 6:14 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.43 at 6:14 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.24
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.25 at 4:34 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 4.05
- Volume
- 16.39 million
- Relative volume
- 2.7x
- Float
- 2.38 million shares, from filings as of October 1, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.06 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Replay MEDS's day
It starts at 7:02 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 7:05 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
- Main move: pre-market
- Catalyst: news
- Float traded 7x
- Lower high
- Bid wall eaten
Pre-market: quiet, then 6:00
The official close on September 30 was $3.17. On the 1st, the stock traded near $3.30 for most of the early morning. The low before 6 a.m. was $3.24 at 4:12 a.m. Volume was thin.
At 6:00 a.m. Accesswire ran this headline: “DataMeds AI's Corexa Pharmacy Surpasses $1 Million In Monthly Revenue”. The 6:00 candle opened at $3.31 and closed at $3.49. At 6:02 it touched $4.00, and volume went from 1,614 shares in the 6:00 minute to 43,634 in the 6:02 minute.
The run to $5.43 and the drop
It hit $4.50 at 6:04 a.m. It pulled back to $4.02 at the close of the 6:05 candle. Then the 6:06 candle ran from $4.02 to $5.00 on 237,630 shares.
The push kept going. The high so far, $5.43, printed at 6:14 a.m., 71% above the previous close. From 6:07 to 6:14 it traded between $4.64 and $5.43.
Then it broke down. The 6:21 candle fell from $5.00 to $4.59. By the end of the 6:23 minute, more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (2.38 million). It kept sliding: $4.24 at 6:25 a.m., 22% under the high, and as low as $3.80 at 6:48. Pre-market volume ended at 11.44 million shares.
7:17: climbing back
After bottoming at $3.80 at 6:48 it spent about half an hour working back up. It was about $4.52 at 7:02, and it reached $4.62 at 7:17.
Stop It's 7:17. MEDS is at $4.62. It topped at $5.43 at 6:14, fell as low as $3.80 at 6:48, and has been climbing since. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 7:17 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 7:14 a.m. ET.
Here's what happened. At 7:17:56 one buy order swept 33,661 shares through 15 price levels, from $4.86 to $5.00. Five seconds later another order bought 29,503 shares from $4.99 to $5.03. The 7:18 candle hit $5.10 on 475,664 shares, the heaviest minute of the day. It closed at $4.72.
An ask wall appeared at exactly $5.00 at 7:20. It peaked at 66,612 shares at 10:04, about 2.8% of the float. $5.10 was a lower high under $5.43. After 7:18 the stock did not trade above $4.86.
The open
It opened at $3.89, 23% above the previous close and well under the pre-market high. It ran to $4.18 in the 9:32 candle. By 9:50 it had touched $4.35, then it chopped around $4.10 to $4.20.
A big ask wall at $4.35 appeared at 10:16.
The bid at $4.10
From 10:11 someone was bidding for a lot of stock at exactly $4.10. It peaked at 50,675 shares at 10:12, about 2.1% of the float. For the next ten minutes the stock traded around it.
Stop It's 10:22. MEDS is at $4.13. A bid of up to 50,675 shares has been sitting at $4.10 since 10:11, just below. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 10:22 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 10:19 a.m. ET.
Here's what happened. From 10:22:52 trades began piling up at $4.10. In 32.4 seconds, 38,652 shares traded at exactly $4.10 and the wall was gone. It was eaten at 10:23:25. The 10:24 candle fell to $3.93 on 58,996 shares.
The rest of the day
From there it drifted lower. It was $3.90 at 10:40 and touched $3.74 at 11:58. At 12:41 a sell order swept 23,747 shares from $3.66 to $3.63. That $3.63 was the low after the open. The $4.35 ask wall from 10:16 had peaked at 107,580 shares at 11:10, 4.5% of the float, and the price stayed below $4.35 for the rest of the regular session.
It bounced into the afternoon, reached $4.16 at 1:15 p.m., and then settled. By 3:59 p.m. it was at $4.05, 25% under the $5.43 high. That high came before the bell, at 6:14 a.m., 40% above the $3.89 open.
Volume was 11.44 million shares pre-market and 4.65 million in the regular session. After hours added 285,830, and the stock was $3.99 in the last minute of the data. For the whole day, 16.39 million shares traded: the float changed hands about 7 times, at about 2.7 times its normal volume.
What to take from it
- After the top, the next push stopped lower. $5.43 at 6:14 a.m., then $5.10 at 7:18 a.m.
- The float traded over before the open. By the end of the 6:23 a.m. minute more shares had traded than the float holds, and 11.44 million of the day's 16.39 million shares traded pre-market.
- A big bid is not a floor. The 50,675-share bid at $4.10 was eaten in about 32 seconds, and the stock dropped to $3.93 within the next minute.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for MEDS published between the previous session's close and the first minute MEDS traded 20% above it, at 6:02 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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DataMeds AI's Corexa Pharmacy Surpasses $1 Million In Monthly Revenue
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 22.7% to 3.89 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 4.35 in 20 minutes, then gave back 65% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 4.05.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 6:00 a.m. | News (Accesswire): DataMeds AI's Corexa Pharmacy Surpasses $1 Million In Monthly Revenue | |
| 6:02 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 3.17 | |
| 6:14 a.m. | Pre-market high, 5.43 | |
| 6:14 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 5.43 | |
| 6:23 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.38 million shares | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 3.89, up 22.7% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 4.05, 25.4% 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 2 minutes after the latest news item before it (Accesswire, 6:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 11.44 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (70%), 1.66 million in the first 30 minutes (10%), and 3.28 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (20%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.38 million shares: past it once at 6:23 a.m., twice at 7:06 a.m., three times at 7:21 a.m.
- Other days MEDS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 7, the latest on October 8, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for MEDS 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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