Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 10, 2026
SSM, August 10: a run to $9.00
SSM opened down 25%, then ran to $3.45 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $9.00, on 1.2M shares.
The open
It opened down 25%, at $2.68. It ran to $3.45 by 11:38 a.m.
The close
It closed at $3.04, 66% 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 down 24.7% at $2.68, then ran from the open to the high of $3.45 in 128 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:57 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.56 |
| 5:01 a.m. | Pre-market high, $9.00 |
| 5:01 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $9.00 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.68, down 24.7% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.04, 66.2% 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
- $3.56
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.68
- Gap at the open
- −24.7%
- Pre-market high
- $9.00 at 5:01 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.00 at 5:01 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.56
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.04
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −14.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.54 at 4:26 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.35 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 13,501
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 1.42 million shares, from filings as of August 10, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.42 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.18 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (87%), 16,694 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 162,638 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (12%).
- Other days SSM met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on October 2, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: price $2 to $20, up 10% or more, relative volume 5× or more, float under 20 million shares, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for SSM that day.
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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