Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 18, 2026
DSP, September 18: a gap that held
DSP opened up 15% and held near that level into the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $11.97, on 140K shares.
The open
It opened up 15%, at $11.54.
The close
It closed at $11.88, near 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 15.2% to $11.54 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $11.88 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:51 a.m. | Pre-market high, $11.97 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $11.54, up 15.2% from the previous close |
| 3:09 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $10.02 |
| 3:37 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $12.40 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $11.88, 4.2% 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
- $10.02
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $11.54
- Gap at the open
- +15.2%
- Pre-market high
- $11.97 at 8:51 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $12.40 at 3:37 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $10.12
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $11.88
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +18.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $12.95 at 6:37 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.19 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 202,283
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 8.0×
- Float
- 18.62 million shares, from filings as of September 18, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 66.47 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 140,489 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (10%), 297,446 in the first 30 minutes (21%), and 955,334 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (69%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day DSP met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers. 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 DSP 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
Replay DSP on September 18, 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.