Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 21, 2026
AMOD, October 21: news, one halt, and $2.27
AMOD opened up 47% after news, ran to $2.27 through one halt, then fell below its open by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 8:15 a.m. Before the bell it reached $2.20, on 12M shares.
The open
It opened up 47%, at $1.89. It ran to $2.27 by 1:12 p.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 1:58 p.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 1:58 p.m.: 18% below the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $1.01, 55% under its high.
What to take from it: The whole move was given back: it finished below the price it opened at.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 46.5% to $1.89 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $2.27 in 222 minutes, then gave back 330% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.01, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:15 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Alpha Modus Highlights Bitcoin Holdings with Value Exceeding $250 Million*, Potential $225 Million in Additional Cash Proceeds, ARIA Expansion Targeting Over 20,000 Retail Locations and Significant Federal Patent Litigation Milestones |
| 8:15 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.29 |
| 9:20 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.20 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.89, up 46.5% from the previous close |
| 1:12 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.27 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.01, 55.3% 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
- $1.29
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.89
- Gap at the open
- +46.5%
- Pre-market high
- $2.20 at 9:20 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.27 at 1:12 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.87
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.01
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −21.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.05 at 4:19 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 42.90 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 760,987
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 7.7×
- Float
- 53.65 million shares, from filings as of October 21, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 57.52 million
- 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, 8:15 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 12.25 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (28%), 4.82 million in the first 30 minutes (11%), and 26.59 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (61%).
- Other days AMOD met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 7, the latest on October 15, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:58 p.m. | 2:08 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 20.9% | $1.10, down 17.9% | down 13.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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.
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