Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 14, 2026
CDT, October 14: $1.05 at 4:31 a.m., then walls at $0.20, $0.25 and $0.2334
CDT spiked to $1.05 before the open, then gave much of it back in the session.
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
Up early, down by the open
CDT's big move came before 5 a.m. It hit $1.05 at 4:31 a.m., 133% above the $0.45 close, then gave it all back. It opened at $0.24.
The $0.20 and $0.25 walls
On this morning the $0.20 floor failed. A 97K-share bid there was eaten at 9:54:00, and the low hit $0.195. At 9:58:24 a 51K-share offer appeared at $0.25.
Stop It's 9:59. CDT is at $0.1999, just above the $0.195 low from five minutes ago. About 51,000 shares are offered at $0.25. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:56 a.m. and stop at 9:59 a.m. ET for your call.
At 9:59:29 buyers took 95K shares at $0.25 and the wall was gone. The minute still closed at $0.211.
The $0.2334 wall
The next wall built from 10:01.
Stop It's 10:26. CDT is at $0.2322. Just above, a wall that peaked at 148,000 shares has been offered at $0.2334 since 10:01. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:23 a.m. and stop at 10:26 a.m. ET for your call.
At 10:26:18, 128K shares traded at $0.2334 in under a second. The minute closed lower, at $0.2283, and the regular session closed at $0.24.
What to take from it: Here each wall broke in about a second, and breaking one did not keep the price up.
Replay CDT's day
It starts at 11:32 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 11:35 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
Pre-market spike. Before the open it spiked 133.3% from $0.45 to $1.05 at 4:31 a.m.. It opened down 46.0% at $0.2428 and traded at $0.244 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:30 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.45 | |
| 4:31 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.05 | |
| 4:31 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.26 million shares | |
| 4:31 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.05 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.2428, down 46.0% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.244, 76.8% 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
- $0.45
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.2428
- Gap at the open
- −46.0%
- Pre-market high
- $1.05 at 4:31 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.05 at 4:31 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.195
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.244
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −45.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $0.2634 at 5:20 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 12.73 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 343,198
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 53.3×
- Float
- 1.26 million shares, from filings as of October 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.48 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 10.23 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (78%), 1.02 million in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 1.83 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (14%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.26 million shares: past it once at 4:31 a.m., twice at 4:33 a.m., three times at 4:36 a.m.
- Other days CDT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 1, 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 CDT 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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