Top 10 at 10: These ASX small caps have started fast today

Who's been quick out of the blocks today? (Getty Images)

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10 highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade.

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

Stocks highlighted in yellow have made potentially market-moving announcements.

Here are the 10 leaders to start the day:

Code	Name	Price ($)	% Chg	Volume
IVX	Invion Ltd	0.02	+64.29%	24.6M
AYR	Alloy Resources Ltd	0.003	+50.00%	171.7k
VIC	Victory Mines Ltd	0.003	+50.00%	40.0k
BLY	Boart Longyear Ltd	0.004	+33.33%	495.0k
BKY	Berkeley Energia Ltd	0.35	+32.08%	250.9k
ESR	Estrella Resources Ltd	0.01	+27.27%	3.9M
IAM	Intiger Group Ltd	0.0025	+25.00%	2.1M
VAL	Valor Resources Ltd	0.005	+25.00%	9.8M
AVL	Australian Vanadium Ltd	0.02	+15.79%	12.5M
QFY	Quantify Technology Holdings Ltd	0.01	+14.29%	705.0k

Biotech stock Invion Ltd (ASX: IVX) was quickest out of the blocks, after a positive update on testing for the company’s IVX-P02 photosensitiser, which is used in the treatment of cancer.

On the other side of the fence, a couple of resources minnows sunk in morning trade, with Metals Australia (ASX:MLS) and Austar Gold (ASX: AUL) both falling by 25 percent.

These are the 10 companies that have fallen behind in early trade:

Code	Name	Price ($)	% Chg	Volume
MLS	Metals Australia Ltd	0.0015	-25.00%	500.0k
AUL	Austar Gold Ltd	0.003	-25.00%	425.0k
ETE	Entek Energy Ltd	0.01	-12.50%	5.5k
BLK	Blackham Resources Ltd	0.01	-11.11%	658.7k
RFR	Rafaella Resources Ltd	0.13	-10.71%	267.9k
HSC	HomeStay Care Ltd	0.02	-10.53%	2.5k
JPR	Jupiter Energy Ltd	0.02	-10.00%	36.5k
SVD	ScandiVanadium Ltd	0.01	-9.09%	5.8M
POW	Protean Energy Ltd	0.01	-9.09%	61.0k
AND	Andromeda Metals Ltd	0.01	-9.09%	2.9M