Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 14, 2026
FFAI, October 14: a 7:30 headline, one halt, and $1.67
FFAI opened up 15% after an 8-K, then faded below its open by the close.
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What happened
The halt and the deal
At 7:25 a.m. it was halted for news, last trade $1.11.
At 7:30 two releases announced a robotics deal at about $2.25 a share.
Stop It's 7:50. FFAI has been halted since 7:25. The last trade was $1.11. Two headlines about a $2.25-per-share deal came out at 7:30, and trading is about to resume. Would you buy at the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 7:47 a.m. and stop at 7:50 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at $1.16, 5% higher.
The top came early
It hit $1.67, the high, at 8:25. The next push stopped at $1.39.
Bids that broke
From 9:25, a large bid sat at $1.28.
Stop It's 9:28. FFAI is at $1.29. A large bid has been sitting at $1.28 since 9:25, and the open is two minutes away. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:25 a.m. and stop at 9:28 a.m. ET for your call.
About 85K shares hit it, and the wall was gone by 9:30:01. Lower bids broke too. It touched $1.08 at 9:37.
Then a 77K-share offer built at $1.19.
Stop It's 10:22. FFAI is at $1.18. About 77,000 shares have been offered at $1.19 since 9:47. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:19 a.m. and stop at 10:22 a.m. ET for your call.
At 10:23:16 one buy order cleared it. The bounce topped near $1.25. It closed at $1.10, below the $1.11 previous close.
What to take from it: The deal news peaked before the bell; by the close the whole move was gone.
Replay FFAI's day
It starts at 7:21 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 7:24 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and fade. It gapped up 15.3% to $1.28 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $1.10.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30 a.m. | News (Business Wire): Faraday Future Announces That It Has Signed a Definitive Agreement with FFR to Combine FFAI's Full Robotics Business at Approx. $200 Million Valuation and $2.246 Per Share, Representing Approximately 50 Percent Premium | |
| 7:30 a.m. | News (PRNewsWire): FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem Signs Definitive Agreements to Combine FFAI's Full Robotics Business at About $200 Million and $2.246 Per Share, an Approximate 50 Percent Premium; Becoming the First U.S.-Listed Humanoid and Bionic EAI Robotics Pure Play | |
| 7:32 a.m. | SEC filing 8-K: CURRENT REPORT | |
| 7:53 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.11 | |
| 8:04 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 6.09 million shares | |
| 8:25 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.67 | |
| 8:25 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.67 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.28, up 15.3% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.10, 34.1% below the high |
The shape's name comes from a fixed rule, not a judgement (how shapes are named). Halts are in the halt table below.
The day in numbers
- Previous close
- $1.11
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.28
- Gap at the open
- +15.3%
- Pre-market high
- $1.67 at 8:25 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.67 at 8:25 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.04
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.10
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −0.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.09 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 27.70 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 382,598
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 19.2×
- Float
- 6.09 million shares, from filings as of October 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 6.13 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 20 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 7:32 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 21.08 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (75%), 2.70 million in the first 30 minutes (10%), and 4.30 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (15%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 6.09 million shares: past it once at 8:04 a.m., twice at 8:14 a.m., three times at 8:45 a.m.
- Other days FFAI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on September 29, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it was in play on the intraday runners: up 30% or more on $3 million or more really traded, outside the small-cap rule's price, relative volume or float, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:25 a.m. | 7:50 a.m. | 25 min 0 s | up 0.9% | $1.16, up 4.5% | up 9.5% | News pending |
Halt bands that day: the LULD plan's Amendment 18 rules (what that means, LULD calculator).
How we read the data, name a day's shape and pick the stocks: methodology.
Trade this day
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