Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 5, 2026
HSCS, October 5: a PRER14A and $4.73
HSCS opened near its previous close after a PRER14A, then ran to $4.70 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: a PRER14A at 5:34 p.m. Before the bell it reached $4.73, on 2K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $4.15. It ran to $4.70 by 2:34 p.m.
The close
It closed at $4.49, 5% 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 down 3.5% at $4.15, then ran from the open to the high of $4.70 in 304 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.73 |
| 4:00 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.73 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.15, down 3.5% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.49, 5.1% below the high |
| 5:34 p.m. | SEC filing PRER14A: PROXY SATEMENT |
| 6:10 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.30 |
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
- $4.30
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.15
- Gap at the open
- −3.5%
- Pre-market high
- $4.73 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.73 at 4:00 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.03
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.49
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +4.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.50 at 6:15 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 80,813
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.15 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 15.9×
- Float
- 4.05 million shares, from filings as of October 5, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.84 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 35 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (PRER14A, 5:34 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2,426 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 2,674 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 1.23 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days HSCS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 24, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 HSCS 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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