Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 15, 2026
HQ, September 15: news, one halt, and $14.20
HQ opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $14.20 through one halt during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 9:15 a.m. Before the bell it reached $10.47, on 19K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $10.30. It ran to $14.20 by 2:30 p.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 1:31 p.m.
The close
It closed at $13.23, 7% 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 0.4% at $10.30, then ran from the open to the high of $14.20 in 300 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:10 a.m. | Pre-market high, $10.47 |
| 9:15 a.m. | News (Business Wire): Horizon Quantum Clarifies Certain Information Regarding the Company |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $10.30, down 0.4% from the previous close |
| 1:30 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $10.34 |
| 2:30 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $14.20 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $13.23, 6.8% 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
- $10.34
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $10.30
- Gap at the open
- −0.4%
- Pre-market high
- $10.47 at 5:10 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $14.20 at 2:30 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.92
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $13.23
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +27.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $13.49 at 5:11 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.16 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 44,306
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.4×
- Float
- 18.00 million shares, from filings as of September 15, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 34.23 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 4 hours 15 minutes after the latest news item before it (Business Wire, 9:15 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 19,146 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 51,093 in the first 30 minutes (4%), and 1.14 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (94%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day HQ 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:31 p.m. | 1:36 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 14.2% | $12.57, up 0.1% | down 3.2% | 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.
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