Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 25, 2026
INLF, September 25: a gap above $5 after earnings, and a $7.95 wall
INLF more than doubled at the open after news, then faded below its open by the close.
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What happened
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Earnings gap
Earnings came out after the $2.95 close. The stock started the 25th at $5.46.
Stop It's 8:16. INLF is at $6.55. It has held between about $6.25 and $6.55 for ten minutes after a jump at 8:05. The pre-market is still on, and the previous close was $2.95. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 8:13 a.m. and stop at 8:16 a.m. ET for your call.
That minute was the top. A 45K-share buy sweep ran it to $7.05, the high of the day. By 8:24 it was back at $6.28.
Push at the open
Stop It's 9:32. INLF is at $6.33. The pre-market high was $7.05, and an ask wall sits at $7.00. The stock has traded between $6.02 and $6.54 since 9:25. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:29 a.m. and stop at 9:32 a.m. ET for your call.
The push stalled at $6.87, short of $7.05. Two minutes later, sell sweeps took it to $5.31.
The $5 bid vanished
Stop It's 11:05. INLF is at $5.15, after more than an hour between about $5.10 and $5.50. About 40,000 shares are bid at $5.00, just under the price. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:02 a.m. and stop at 11:05 a.m. ET for your call.
The bid did not hold. It was pulled at 11:05:48, after only 12K shares traded there. The stock fell to $4.71 that minute and closed at $5.16.
What to take from it: On this day the top came before the bell, and the big $5.00 bid vanished once the price reached it.
Replay INLF's day
It starts at 7:59 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 8:02 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 and fade. It gapped up 112.2% to $6.26 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $5.16.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 4:30 p.m. | News (PRNewsWire): INLIF LIMITED Reports First Half of Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Results | |
| 3:24 a.m. | News (Benzinga): Costco Wholesale, Scholastic and 3 Stocks to Watch Heading Into Friday | |
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.95 | |
| 4:25 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.05 million shares | |
| 8:16 a.m. | Pre-market high, $7.05 | |
| 8:16 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $7.05 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $6.26, up 112.2% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.16, 26.8% 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
- $2.95
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $6.26
- Gap at the open
- +112.2%
- Pre-market high
- $7.05 at 8:16 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.05 at 8:16 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.57
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.16
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +74.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.57 at 5:08 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 25.08 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 494,580
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 88.2×
- Float
- 1.05 million shares, from filings as of September 25, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.09 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 35 minutes after the latest news item before it (Benzinga, 3:24 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 17.37 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (68%), 3.44 million in the first 30 minutes (13%), and 4.76 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (19%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.05 million shares: past it once at 4:25 a.m., twice at 4:43 a.m., three times at 5:03 a.m.
- Other days INLF met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on September 24, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. 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 INLF 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 INLF on September 25, 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.