Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 30, 2026
AIOK, October 30: one halt and $31.11
AIOK opened near its previous close, then ran to $31.11 through one halt during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $22.67, on 458K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $20.72. It ran to $31.11 by 10:13 a.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 9:45 a.m.
The close
It closed at $23.99, 23% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 9.7% at $20.72, then ran from the open to the high of $31.11 in 43 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:24 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $18.89 |
| 4:24 a.m. | Pre-market high, $22.67 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $20.72, up 9.7% from the previous close |
| 9:52 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.11 million shares |
| 10:13 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $31.11 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $23.99, 22.9% 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
- $18.89
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $20.72
- Gap at the open
- +9.7%
- Pre-market high
- $22.67 at 4:24 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $31.11 at 10:13 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $19.06
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $23.99
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +27.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $24.17 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.05 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 160,298
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.2×
- Float
- 1.11 million shares, from filings as of October 30, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.32 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 458,136 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (9%), 1.02 million in the first 30 minutes (20%), and 3.73 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (72%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.11 million shares: past it once at 9:52 a.m., twice at 10:15 a.m., three times at 10:59 a.m.
- Other days AIOK met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 28, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:45 a.m. | 9:50 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 14.2% | $26.25, up 1.7% | down 0.6% | 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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