Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on October 2, 2026
AMOD on October 2, 2026: why it ran
On October 2, 2026, AMOD opened up 197.4% from the previous close of 1.17 and reached 4.77 at 9:47 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.
- Previous close
- 1.17
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 3.48
- Gap at the open
- up 197.4%
- Pre-market high
- 3.60 at 9:24 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.77 at 9:47 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.82
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.93 at 5:08 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 3.50
- Volume
- 80.97 million
- Relative volume
- 172.7x
- Float
- 1.11 million shares, from filings as of October 2, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.99 million
Replay AMOD's day
It starts at 9:25 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:28 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
- Gap, run and fade
- Catalyst: filing
- Round-number break
- Halted once
- Float traded 70x
The day before
On October 1, AMOD ranged from $1.12 to $2.06 on 8.45 million shares. The official close was $1.17. After hours the last bar was $1.88.
Pre-market: the float traded by 4:09 a.m.
The first trades on the 2nd were around $2.10, already well above the $1.17 close. By 4:09 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (1.11 million). By 7:16 a.m. that was ten times the float.
It spent the early morning drifting between about $1.82 and $2.24. At 7:01 a.m. volume jumped and it started to climb. It reached $2.74 at 7:57 a.m.
At 8:35 a.m. the company filed an 8-K (a current report). The stock was at $2.66 at the end of that minute. It kept climbing through $3 at about 9:00.
The pre-market high was $3.60 at 9:24 a.m. 43.58 million shares traded before the bell.
Walls on the way up
The Level 2 data shows sellers parking big size on the way up. Around 7:50 a.m., walls of about 95,000 shares sat at $2.62 and $2.60. Both were pulled. At 8:09 a.m. a wall of 104,276 shares appeared at $2.50. It was eaten at 8:22 a.m., when 53,489 shares traded at exactly $2.50 over about eight seconds.
These were each roughly 8% to 9% of the float. They did not stop the stock for long.
The wall at $4.00
The open was $3.48. In the first minute it went to $3.88 and came back to $3.59. At 9:32 it closed at $3.97 and then slipped back to $3.51 by 9:36.
This is the part a chart doesn't show you. From 9:17 a.m. on, someone was offering stock at exactly $4.00. By 9:40 a.m. it had grown to about 160,000 shares, about 15% of the float.
Stop It's 9:40. AMOD is at $3.77. About 160,000 shares are offered at $4.00, which is 15% of the float. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 9:40 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 9:37 a.m. ET.
Here's what happened. From 9:40:42 to 9:40:43, 71,239 shares traded at exactly $4.00, in under a second, and the wall was gone. Buyers ate it. The 9:40 minute traded 1.75 million shares and closed at $4.07.
The 9:41 minute ran to $4.56 and at 9:41:37 it was halted (a volatility pause). It reopened at 9:46:37.
Stop It's 9:46. AMOD has been halted since 9:41 with the last trade at $4.56, and is about to reopen. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 9:46 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 9:43 a.m. ET.
The reopen began with a single print of 343,886 shares at $4.54. The 9:46 candle then fell to $4.09 and closed at $4.18.
At 9:47 it hit $4.77, the high of the day. It closed that minute at $4.37.
The rest of the day
After a $4.68 high at 9:48, at 10:09 a.m. it pushed to $4.27, another lower high under the $4.77 top. Then it faded. It was $3.57 at 10:29 and $3.08 at 1:50 p.m., the low after the open. It closed at $3.50.
By the close, 34.06 million shares had traded in the regular session. With pre-market that came to 77.64 million, so the float changed hands about 70 times, at 173 times its normal volume.
After hours
After hours it traded between $2.98 and $3.93. The $3.93 high came at 5:08 p.m., and it drifted to about $3.00 by 8 p.m.
What to take from it
- On this day, the $4.00 ask wall did not hold. It peaked at 161,579 shares (about 15% of the float), and 71,239 shares traded at exactly $4.00 in under a second before it was gone.
- Here, the halt reopen cost more than the screen showed. The same 5,000-share order cost $46 over the screen after the wall broke and $296 over at the 9:46:38 reopen.
- After the top, the next push stopped lower. $4.77 at 9:47 a.m., then $4.27 at 10:09 a.m.
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 4:00 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 197.4% to 3.48 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 4.77 in 17 minutes through a halt, then gave back 98% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 3.50.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 1.17 | |
| 4:09 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.11 million shares | |
| 9:24 a.m. | Pre-market high, 3.60 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 3.48, up 197.4% from the previous close | |
| 9:41 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:46 a.m. | |
| 9:47 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 4.77 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 3.50, 26.6% 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: 43.58 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (54%), 16.01 million in the first 30 minutes (20%), and 21.38 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (26%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.11 million shares: past it once at 4:09 a.m., twice at 4:21 a.m., three times at 4:47 a.m.
- The halt at 9:41 a.m.: up 29.9% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 4.54, down 0.4% from the last trade before it, then down 10.6% over the next 5 minutes.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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