Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 21, 2026
LOBO, September 21: four halts, a 571,620-share wall at $1.08, and $1.29
LOBO opened up 36% after news, ran to $1.29 through four halts, then gave back most of the run by the close.
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What happened
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A gap up on news
LOBO closed the prior day at $0.53. A 5:01 a.m. headline said it was up about 32% pre-market. 13M shares traded before the bell, more than the 10.6M float. It opened at $0.72 and got busy near the $0.80 pre-market high.
Stop It's 9:46. LOBO is at $0.78 and rising on heavy volume. The pre-market high of $0.80 is just above. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:43 a.m. and stop at 9:46 a.m. ET for your call.
Four halts to $1.29
It broke through. It ran to $0.94 and was halted at 9:48:14. It reopened at 9:53:14 at $1.00.
At the second halt, a 243K-share bid sat at $1.21. It reopened at 10:02:27, and the bid was pulled a second later. The high was $1.29 that minute.
Stop It's 10:03. LOBO is at $1.28, a minute after reopening from its second halt. The high so far is $1.29. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:00 a.m. and stop at 10:03 a.m. ET for your call.
The wall and the fade
The top was already in. It fell to $1.08 that minute, where a 572K-share ask wall formed. After the third halt, buyers ate the wall at 10:08:59. It reached $1.17, then sellers drove it to $0.95 and a fourth halt. It closed at $0.72, 44% below the high.
What to take from it: Buyers eating a big wall did not bring a new high; each push stopped lower.
Replay LOBO's day
It starts at 9:39 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:42 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
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 35.8% to $0.72 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.29 in 32 minutes through two halts, then gave back 100% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $0.7178, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 2:06 a.m. | News (Benzinga): Accenture, Abivax and 3 Stocks to Watch Heading Into Monday | |
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.53 | |
| 4:54 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.7997 | |
| 7:08 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 10.56 million shares | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.72, up 35.8% from the previous close | |
| 10:02 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.29 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.7178, 44.4% 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
- $0.53
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.72
- Gap at the open
- +35.8%
- Pre-market high
- $0.7997 at 4:54 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.29 at 10:02 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.65
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.7178
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +35.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $0.8301 at 4:37 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 59.13 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.85 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 113.7×
- Float
- 10.56 million shares, from filings as of September 21, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 14.44 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 hour 53 minutes after the latest news item before it (Benzinga, 2:06 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 12.76 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (21%), 9.10 million in the first 30 minutes (15%), and 39.12 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (64%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 10.56 million shares: past it once at 7:08 a.m., twice at 9:57 a.m., three times at 10:22 a.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day LOBO met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it was in play on the intraday runners: up 30% or more on $3 million or more really traded, outside the small-cap rule's price, relative volume or float, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (4)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:48 a.m. | 9:53 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 32.2% | $1.00, up 6.4% | up 21.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:57 a.m. | 10:02 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 28.7% | $1.19, down 1.7% | down 9.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:03 a.m. | 10:08 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 10.7% | $1.05, down 2.8% | down 9.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:10 a.m. | 10:15 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 12.0% | $0.9503, unchanged | up 10.5% | 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 LOBO on September 21, 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.