Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 24, 2026
STAK, September 24: a quiet morning, a noon run, one halt, and $1.72
STAK opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.72 through one halt during the session.
What happened
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A quiet morning wakes up
With no news listed, STAK sat near $0.95 for two hours. Then it ran from $0.99 at 11:57 to $1.27 by 12:00.
The 12:04 halt
Into the halt, buyers stacked a 132K-share bid at $1.55.
Stop It's 12:09. STAK has been halted since 12:04, with the last trade at $1.55. It ran there from $0.99 at 11:57. About 131,000 shares were bid at $1.55 when it halted. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:06 p.m. and stop at 12:09 p.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at 12:09:49 with a 155K-share print at $1.56. The $1.55 bid was hit, and that minute fell to $1.40.
Stop It's 12:10. STAK is at $1.41 after the reopen. An ask wall has been building at $1.60, above the current price. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:07 p.m. and stop at 12:10 p.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate the wall: 58K shares at $1.60 in 16 seconds. That minute topped at $1.68.
A wall at $1.70
Stop It's 12:25. STAK is at $1.54. An ask wall at $1.70, first seen at 12:07, showed about 156,000 shares at 12:23. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:22 p.m. and stop at 12:25 p.m. ET for your call.
A buy sweep at 12:25:43 hit $1.72, the high. Two minutes later it was $1.46. It slid to $1.22 by 1:10 p.m. and closed at $1.44.
What to take from it: STAK's $1.60 wall broke in seconds, but the run topped at $1.72 minutes later and faded.
Replay STAK's day
It starts at 11:52 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 11:55 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
Intraday run. It opened up 1.1% at $0.95, then ran from the open to the high of $1.72 in 175 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:01 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.9887 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.95, up 1.1% from the previous close | |
| 12:00 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.94 | |
| 12:13 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 4.01 million shares | |
| 12:25 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.72 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.44, 16.3% 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
- $0.94
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.95
- Gap at the open
- +1.1%
- Pre-market high
- $0.9887 at 4:01 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.72 at 12:25 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.93
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.44
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +53.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.55 at 4:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 16.19 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 922,352
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 103.6×
- Float
- 4.01 million shares, from filings as of September 24, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 13.21 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 26,391 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 20,594 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 17.07 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 4.01 million shares: past it once at 12:13 p.m., twice at 12:27 p.m., three times at 1:03 p.m.
- Other days STAK met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 22, 2026.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:04 p.m. | 12:09 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 40.3% | $1.56, up 0.6% | down 10.9% | 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
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