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Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 24, 2026

SKYQ, September 24: news and $3.47

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SKYQ opened up 21% after news, ran to $3.47, then fell below its open by the close.

News via Stock News API

News$3.47$2.544 a.m.9:30noon4 p.m.8 p.m.
SKYQ on September 24, 2026, one-minute bars, New York time. Bands: halts. Flags: the news or filing before the move. Dotted line: the previous close. Shaded: before the 9:30 a.m. open and after the 4:00 p.m. close.

What happened

Before the open

The news came first: news at 7:45 a.m. Before the bell it reached $3.36, on 4.7M shares.

The open

It opened up 21%, at $3.07. It ran to $3.47 by 11:42 a.m.

The close

It closed at $2.91, 16% under its high.

What to take from it: The whole move was given back: it finished below the price it opened at.

The details

How it traded, step by step

Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 20.9% to $3.07 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $3.47 in 132 minutes, then gave back 140% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $2.91, below the open.

Time (ET)What happened
7:45 a.m.News (GlobeNewsWire): Sky Quarry Restarts Nevada's Only Crude Oil Refinery
7:50 a.m.First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.54
8:46 a.m.Pre-market high, $3.36
9:30 a.m.The open: $3.07, up 20.9% from the previous close
11:42 a.m.High of the day to the close, $3.47
12:22 p.m.Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 8.38 million shares
3:59 p.m.Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.91, 16.1% 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
$2.54
Open, 9:30 a.m.
$3.07
Gap at the open
+20.9%
Pre-market high
$3.36 at 8:46 a.m.
High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$3.47 at 11:42 a.m.
Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$2.52
Close, 4 p.m.
$2.91
Change at 4 p.m.
+14.6%
After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
$2.98 at 5:08 p.m.
Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
9.51 million
Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
146,546
Relative volume by 8 p.m.
11.9×
Float
8.38 million shares, from filings as of September 24, 2026
Shares outstanding
8.83 million
  • From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 5 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 7:45 a.m.).
  • Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4.71 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (49%), 912,191 in the first 30 minutes (9%), and 4.04 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (42%).
  • Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 8.38 million shares: past it once at 12:22 p.m.
  • Other days SKYQ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 14, 2026.

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 SKYQ 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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