Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 2, 2026
SSM, October 2: a run to $3.09
SSM opened near its previous close, then ran to $3.09 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.88, on 6.5M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.31. It ran to $3.09 by 12:42 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.63, 15% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 4.5% at $2.31, then ran from the open to the high of $3.09 in 192 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:47 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.21 |
| 5:56 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.48 million shares |
| 7:38 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.88 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.31, up 4.5% from the previous close |
| 12:42 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.09 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.63, 14.9% 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
- $2.21
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.31
- Gap at the open
- +4.5%
- Pre-market high
- $2.88 at 7:38 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.09 at 12:42 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.11
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.63
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +19.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.70 at 5:54 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 12.22 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 392,967
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.2×
- Float
- 1.48 million shares, from filings as of October 2, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.71 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 6.48 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (51%), 851,810 in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 5.29 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (42%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.48 million shares: past it once at 5:56 a.m., twice at 6:50 a.m., three times at 7:38 a.m.
- Other days SSM met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on October 1, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for SSM 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
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