Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 14, 2026
FTFT, September 14: the $4.16 wall, one halt, and $9.48
FTFT opened up 15%, ran to $9.48 through one halt, and held most of the move into the close.
What happened
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The $4.16 wall
There was no news. It opened at $3.30, 15% above the $2.88 close. From 9:34, a big ask wall sat at $4.16.
Stop It's 9:36. FTFT is at $4.02. A big ask wall has been sitting at $4.16 since 9:34. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:33 a.m. and stop at 9:36 a.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate the wall at 9:36:33. In 3.5 seconds, 59K shares traded there. Then it sank to $3.73 by 9:53. The real run started at 9:57 and reached $5.25 by 10:02.
The 2:44 halt
Late in the day it surged. At 2:44:20 p.m. a volatility pause froze it at $6.89.
Stop It's 2:49. FTFT has been halted since 2:44, with the last trade at $6.89. Would you buy when it reopens?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:46 p.m. and stop at 2:49 p.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at 2:49:20 at $7.11, 3% higher. That minute ran to $8.25.
The 3:41 minute
The 3:41 minute opened at $7.75.
Stop It's 3:42. FTFT is at $8.07, after climbing from $7.75 a minute ago. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:39 p.m. and stop at 3:42 p.m. ET for your call.
It hit $9.48, the high of the day, that minute. Within six minutes it was back at $8.44. It closed the regular session at $8.05.
What to take from it: A wall break or halt reopen can pop, but the price can fall right back.
Replay FTFT's day
It starts at 2:31 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 2:34 p.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
Gap and go. It gapped up 14.6% to $3.30 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $9.48 in 372 minutes through a halt, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 23% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 8:11 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.43 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.88 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.30, up 14.6% from the previous close | |
| 10:03 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 7.47 million shares | |
| 3:42 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $9.48 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $8.05, 15.1% 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
- $2.88
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.30
- Gap at the open
- +14.6%
- Pre-market high
- $3.43 at 8:11 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.48 at 3:42 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.52
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $8.05
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +179.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $9.30 at 4:04 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 30.75 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.70 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 13.0×
- Float
- 7.47 million shares, from filings as of September 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.06 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.52 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (4%), 4.78 million in the first 30 minutes (13%), and 29.14 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (82%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 7.47 million shares: past it once at 10:03 a.m., twice at 12:11 p.m., three times at 2:23 p.m.
- Other days FTFT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on October 28, 2026.
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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:44 p.m. | 2:49 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 22.7% | $7.11, up 3.2% | up 3.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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
Replay FTFT on September 14, 2026 in Hindsight Markets: the real tape, the order book and the halts, on a clock you control, and see where your orders would have filled.