Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 29, 2026
DXST, September 29: a 9:30 headline, two halts, and $5.69
DXST opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $5.69 through two halts during the session.
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What happened
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News, then a halt
The 9:30 news hit a quiet stock that had traded 491 shares pre-market. It opened at $2.00. Halt #1 came at 9:33:41 at $2.56.
Stop It's 10:06. DXST was halted at 9:33 with a last trade of $2.56 and is about to reopen. The previous close was $1.95. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:03 a.m. and stop at 10:06 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at 10:06:07 and hit $4.16 that minute.
Second reopen, the top
The second reopen made the top. Halt #2 at 10:15:27 froze it at $4.11 over a 103K-share bid. It reopened at $4.91 at 10:34:05 and hit $5.69 that minute, then $4.30 two minutes later.
The $3.00 bid
One bid sat under the fade: 39K shares at $3.00 by 11:31.
Stop It's 11:53. DXST is at $3.06, down from $5.69 at 10:34. A bid has sat at $3.00 since 11:08, up to 39,329 shares at its biggest. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:50 a.m. and stop at 11:53 a.m. ET for your call.
Sellers ate the bid in 1.6 seconds. It closed at $3.03, 47% under the high.
What to take from it: A big bid at $3.00 held for 45 minutes, then broke in 1.6 seconds.
Replay DXST's day
It starts at 9:29 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:32 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 2.6% at $2.00, then ran from the open to the high of $5.69 in 64 minutes through two halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:07 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.95 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Decent Holding's SunCare Launches AI-Powered In-Home Senior Care Service Through Strategic Collaboration with Ruilan International | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.00, up 2.6% from the previous close | |
| 9:33 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.95 | |
| 10:10 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.22 million shares | |
| 10:34 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.69 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.03, 46.7% 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
- $1.95
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.00
- Gap at the open
- +2.6%
- Pre-market high
- $1.95 at 4:07 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.69 at 10:34 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.76
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.03
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +55.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.46 at 4:06 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 14.61 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 991,624
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 1011.5×
- Float
- 1.22 million shares, from filings as of September 29, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.22 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 3 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 9:30 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 491 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 7,447 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 15.59 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.22 million shares: past it once at 10:10 a.m., twice at 10:34 a.m., three times at 10:37 a.m.
- Other days DXST met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on August 24, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:33 a.m. | 10:06 a.m. | 32 min 26 s | up 32.6% | $2.88, up 12.5% | up 23.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:15 a.m. | 10:34 a.m. | 18 min 38 s | up 15.8% | $4.91, up 19.5% | down 7.5% | 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
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