Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 9, 2026
JZ, October 9: quiet until 1:03 p.m., then $1.47
JZ opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.47 during the session.
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
Buyback, then quiet
The day before, JZ ran to $1.17 on buyback news and closed at $0.84. There was no news on the 9th.
It opened at $0.80 and drifted for hours. The morning low was $0.7251 at 10:45.
Stop It's 1:02 p.m. JZ is at $0.87, up from $0.79 at 12:33. Most minutes in the past hour traded under 5,000 shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:59 p.m. and stop at 1:02 p.m. ET for your call.
One minute changed it
The 1:03 minute traded 532K shares. Three buy orders swept it from $0.88 to $1.00 in about three seconds. It tagged $1.05 at 1:08, then slipped to $0.90 by 1:38.
Walls pulled on the climb
On the climb after 2:00, an ask wall of 79K shares at $1.38 was pulled at 2:16:40. A second, 86K shares at $1.33, was pulled at 2:23:11. Two minutes later buyers swept it up to $1.30.
Stop It's 2:37 p.m. JZ is at $1.34, up from $0.93 at 2:01 p.m. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:34 p.m. and stop at 2:37 p.m. ET for your call.
Top and close
It hit $1.47 at 2:38, up 76% from the prior close. Sellers pushed it to $1.35 within two minutes. At 3:04 it fell to $1.13, then bounced to $1.28 in the 3:59 minute.
What to take from it: A quiet stock with no news turned in one minute and kept running into mid-afternoon.
Replay JZ's day
It starts at 2:01 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 2:04 p.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 down 4.3% at $0.80, then ran from the open to the high of $1.47 in 308 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:22 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.8662 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.80, down 4.3% from the previous close | |
| 1:03 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.8361 | |
| 2:38 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.47 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.28, 12.9% 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
- $0.8361
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.80
- Gap at the open
- −4.3%
- Pre-market high
- $0.8662 at 7:22 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.47 at 2:38 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.6606
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.28
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +53.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.28 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 11.52 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 866,110
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.6×
- Float
- not available
- Shares outstanding
- not available
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 908,443 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (7%), 247,203 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 11.23 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (91%).
- Other days JZ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on October 14, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for JZ 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 JZ on October 9, 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.