10 at 10: These ASX stocks are fire-dancing this morning

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10 highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest movers in percentage terms.

The market opens at 10am (eastern time) and the data is taken at 10:15am, once every stock has commenced trading.

Stocks highlighted in yellow have made market-moving announcements (click headings to sort).

Code	Name	Price	% Chg	Volume
IVT	Inventis Ltd	0.005	+66.67%	500.0k
ATH	Alterity Therapeutics ltd	0.065	+39.13%	54.4M
VPR	Volt Power Group Ltd	0.002	+33.33%	12.9M
CZN	Corazon Mining Ltd	0.0025	+25.00%	575.0k
DRE	Dreadnought Resources Ltd	0.011	+22.22%	21.4M
IVR	Investigator Resources Ltd	0.05	+20.51%	3.5M
MBH	Maggie Beer Holdings Ltd	0.26	+20.45%	450.4k
NWE	Norwest Energy NL	0.003	+20.00%	383.3k
EQE	Equus Mining Ltd	0.015	+20.00%	11.1M
FFR	Firefly Resources Ltd	0.08	+20.00%	318.9k

Today investors woke to the news gold had surpassed US$2,000. On the ASX 581 stocks gained, 419 were down and 1098 were unchanged.

Alterity Therapeutics (ASX:ATH) and Inventis (ASX:IVT) were today’s top 2 winners, continuing to climb after news announced yesterday.

Among stocks that had news today, gold explorer Dreadnought Resources (ASX:DRE) rose after a capital raising which will facilitate a new drilling campaign.

Meanwhile, food stock Maggie Beer (ASX:MBH) announced it was getting into plant based foods.

Code	Name	Price	% Chg	Volume
CAQ	CAQ Holdings Ltd	0.005	-37.50%	575
CLZ	Classic Minerals Ltd	0.0025	-16.67%	40.3M
RGS	Regeneus Ltd	0.11	-15.38%	273.0k
LPE	Locality Planning Energy Holdi	0.28	-15.15%	55.0k
RNX	Renegade Exploration Ltd	0.007	-12.50%	1.5M
MRQ	MRG Metals Ltd	0.007	-12.50%	290.0k
BIQ	BuildingIQ Inc	0.007	-12.50%	1.1M
ASP	Aspermont Ltd	0.008	-11.11%	700.0k
RGL	Riversgold Ltd	0.05	-9.09%	148.6k
COG	Consolidated Operations Group	0.05	-9.09%	492.7k