Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 8, 2026
BJDX, September 8: news and a gap that held
BJDX opened up 23% after news and held near that level into the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 6:30 a.m. Before the bell it reached $1.18, on 15M shares.
The open
It opened up 23%, at $1.02.
The close
It closed at $1.03, 13% under its high.
What to take from it: The gap was the move. After the open it went sideways.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and hold. It gapped up 23.1% to $1.02 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $1.03 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:30 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Bluejay Diagnostics and Lovell Government Services Announce Partnership to Expand Access to U.S. Federal Healthcare Markets |
| 6:31 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.8324 |
| 6:57 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 4.41 million shares |
| 7:33 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.18 |
| 7:33 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.18 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.02, up 23.1% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.03, 12.7% 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
- $0.8324
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.02
- Gap at the open
- +23.1%
- Pre-market high
- $1.18 at 7:33 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.18 at 7:33 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.8395
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.03
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +23.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.08 at 4:37 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 19.16 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 296,095
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 71.5×
- Float
- 4.41 million shares, from filings as of September 8, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.47 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 minute after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 6:30 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 14.51 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (75%), 1.75 million in the first 30 minutes (9%), and 3.20 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (16%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 4.41 million shares: past it once at 6:57 a.m., twice at 7:30 a.m., three times at 8:13 a.m.
- Other days BJDX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on August 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for BJDX 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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