Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 9, 2026
ACCL, September 9: $4.09 in the first minute, $3.08 at the close
ACCL opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $3.12 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
News after the close
The news came after the $2.66 close on September 8. At 5:00 p.m. the company announced corporate services in Singapore.
The high in the first minute
The rush was over almost as soon as it began. ACCL hit $4.09 in the 4:00 a.m. minute. At 4:02:10 one 20K-share sell order hit 18 price levels.
By 8:45 it was back near $2.67. About 1.6M shares traded before the bell, a third of the float.
Open, low and bounce
The gap was gone by the open. It opened at $2.70, hit $2.38 at 9:39, then got back to $2.65 by 9:44.
Stop It's 10:10. ACCL is at $2.69, in a tight range for about 10 minutes and well below the pre-market highs. The low so far was $2.38 at 9:39. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:07 a.m. and stop at 10:10 a.m. ET for your call.
It jumped the next minute. At 10:11:04 an 11K-share buy order swept from $2.70 to $2.87. It touched $2.94 two minutes later.
The afternoon stayed between about $2.90 and $3.10. It closed at $3.08, a quarter below the high, on 407K regular-session shares.
What to take from it: The day's high came in the first minute, and nothing later came near it.
Replay ACCL's day
It starts at 9:36 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:39 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 1.5% at $2.70, then ran from the open to the high of $3.12 in 281 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 5:00 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Acco Group Holdings Limited Announces the Launch of Licensed Corporate Service Operations in Singapore, Expanding its Regional Corporate Services Footprint | |
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.66 | |
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.09 | |
| 4:00 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.09 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.70, up 1.5% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.08, 24.7% 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
- $2.66
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.70
- Gap at the open
- +1.5%
- Pre-market high
- $4.09 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.09 at 4:00 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.38
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.08
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +15.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.10 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.03 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 49,102
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 137.8×
- Float
- 4.89 million shares, from filings as of September 9, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 13.90 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 11 hours after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, Sep 8, 5:00 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.62 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (78%), 107,768 in the first 30 minutes (5%), and 348,423 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (17%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day ACCL met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 ACCL 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.
Trade this day
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