Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on October 1, 2026
SORA on October 1, 2026: why it ran
On October 1, 2026, SORA opened down 4.6% from the previous close of 2.38 and reached 2.41 at 3:51 p.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 2.38
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 2.27
- Gap at the open
- down 4.6%
- Pre-market high
- 2.20 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.41 at 3:51 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.20
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.64 at 4:06 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 2.41
- Volume
- 3.37 million
- Relative volume
- 364.1x
- Float
- 10.41 million shares, from filings as of October 1, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 24.86 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Replay SORA's day
It starts at 3:47 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 3:50 p.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: after hours
- Thin trading
- News: MOU headline
- After-hours spike
- Foreign filer (6-K)
Pre-market: 6 shares
The previous close was $2.38. The first trade on October 1 was at 4:00 a.m., at $2.20. That was below the close.
It was also the pre-market high. 6 shares traded before the bell, and nothing else printed until the open.
The open and a slow morning
It opened at $2.27, down 5% from the previous close. One share traded in that first minute.
By 9:32 it was at $2.35. At 9:33, 485 shares traded at $2.35, the biggest minute of the morning. A single share printed at $2.38 at 9:50.
Then it drifted down on very thin trading. It was at $2.30 at 10:42 and $2.22 at 11:00. The low since the open was $2.21 at 11:05. Most minutes had no trades at all.
The afternoon
The next trade after $2.21 at 11:06 came at 12:58, at the same $2.21. At 3:03 p.m. it printed $2.36. From 3:15 p.m. it sat at $2.35. At 3:40 p.m., 1,158 shares traded at that price.
Stop It's 3:49. SORA is $2.35. It has sat at $2.35 since 3:15 p.m. The previous close was $2.38, and the low since the open was $2.21 at 11:05. About 2,300 shares have traded all day, 1,158 of them in a single minute at 3:40, and 300 more in the 3:48 minute. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 3:49 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 3:46 p.m. ET.
At 3:51 p.m. it moved. The minute opened at $2.38, went to $2.41, the high of the regular session, and closed there on 996 shares.
The last regular-session print was $2.36 at 4:00 p.m. The stock had traded 3,482 shares from 9:30 to 4:00, against a float of 10.4 million. Normal volume is tiny, about 9,000 shares a day.
After hours: the headline and the 6-K
At 4:05 p.m. GlobeNewsWire ran: “AsiaStrategy Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Plume Network to Advance Real-World Asset Tokenisation Across Asia.” The 4:05 candle ran from $2.41 to $2.55 and closed at $2.54 on 4,169 shares.
The next minute was the spike. At 4:06 p.m. the company filed a 6-K, a foreign company's current report. That candle opened at $2.63 and hit $3.64, the high of the day, and closed at $3.62 on 10,532 shares.
At 4:07 p.m. it fell to $2.88 inside the minute and closed at $2.98, on 63,371 shares. After that it dipped as low as $2.74 at 4:09 p.m., then held mostly between $3.00 and $3.30. It touched $3.55 at 4:25 p.m.
It was still near $3.07 at 7:59 p.m. After hours, 3.36 million shares traded, against 3,482 in the regular session. The whole day came to about 3.37 million shares, or 364 times normal volume.
What to take from it
- A stock that barely trades in the regular session can trade heavily after hours. SORA's regular session was 3,482 shares. After hours it traded 3.36 million.
- Thin books make small orders expensive. At the 3:51 p.m. high, a 5,000-share buy averaged $2.46 against $2.38 on the screen.
- The first spike is not always the level that holds. The 4:06 p.m. high was $3.64, and the next minute closed at $2.98.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for SORA published between the previous session's close and the first minute SORA traded 20% above it, at 4:06 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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AsiaStrategy Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Plume Network to Advance Real-World Asset Tokenisation Across Asia
News via Stock News API
How it traded
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, 2.20 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 2.27, down 4.6% from the previous close | |
| 3:51 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 2.41 | |
| 3:51 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 2.41, 0.0% below the high | |
| 4:05 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): AsiaStrategy Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Plume Network to Advance Real-World Asset Tokenisation Across Asia | |
| 4:06 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.38 |
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 minute after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 4:05 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 6 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 502 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 3.36 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days SORA met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 2, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for SORA 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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