10 at 10: These ASX stocks are on top of the hill this morning

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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 potentially market-moving announcements (click headings to sort):

Code	Name	Price	% Chg	Volume
ECT	Environmental Clean Technologi	0.002	+100.00%	250.0k
SMI	Santana Minerals Ltd	0.005	+25.00%	100.0k
ALT	Analytica Ltd	0.003	+20.00%	400.0k
TGN	Tungsten Mining NL	0.18	+20.00%	196.0k
OVN	Oventus Medical Ltd	0.54	+17.39%	753.2k
PWN	Parkway Minerals NL	0.007	+16.67%	562.0k
ADX	ADX Energy Ltd	0.008	+14.29%	500.0k
BRK	Brookside Energy Ltd	0.008	+14.29%	1.0M
MBK	Metal Bank Ltd	0.008	+14.29%	555.6k
BCN	Beacon Minerals Ltd	0.036	+12.50%	1.6M

Biotech stock Oventus Medical (ASX:OVN) got the early jump, after announcing that its O2Vent breathing apparatus has been approved for reimbursement for patients covered by United States Centres for Medicare & Medicaid.

These 10 stocks were lagging the pack at the opening bell:

Code	Name	Price	% Chg	Volume
XTC	Xantippe Resources Ltd	0.002	-33.33%	266.7k
VAL	Valor Resources Ltd	0.002	-33.33%	1.0M
YPB	YPB Group Ltd	0.003	-25.00%	150.0k
RLC	Reedy Lagoon Corp Ltd	0.003	-25.00%	208.0k
FPL	Fremont Petroleum Corp Ltd	0.005	-16.67%	7.8M
VOR	Vortiv Ltd	0.006	-14.29%	335.2k
MHC	Manhattan Corp Ltd	0.006	-14.29%	1.0M
PNX	PNX METALS Ltd	0.007	-12.50%	150.0k
PPY	Papyrus Australia Ltd	0.007	-12.50%	55.0k
FHS	Freehill Mining Ltd	0.02	-9.52%	400.0k