Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 11, 2026
LBGJ, September 11: a gap that faded
LBGJ opened up 33%, then faded below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.25, on 2.3M shares.
The open
It opened up 33%, at $2.58.
The close
It closed at $2.25, 31% under its high.
What to take from it: A big gap is not a trend. This one traded below its open by the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and fade. It gapped up 33.0% to $2.58 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $2.25.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.94 |
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.25 |
| 4:00 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.25 |
| 4:01 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 104,255 shares |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.58, up 33.0% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.25, 30.8% 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
- $1.94
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.58
- Gap at the open
- +33.0%
- Pre-market high
- $3.25 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.25 at 4:00 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.02
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.25
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +16.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.35 at 7:58 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.53 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 79,509
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 7.3×
- Float
- 104,255 shares, from filings as of September 11, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 105,027
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2.33 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (65%), 630,006 in the first 30 minutes (17%), and 642,559 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (18%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 104,255 shares: past it once at 4:01 a.m., twice at 4:02 a.m., three times at 4:07 a.m.
- Other days LBGJ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on November 3, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 LBGJ 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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