Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 14, 2026
TC, October 14: four halts and $4.15
TC opened up 21%, ran to $4.15 through four halts, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
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The open and first halt
TC opened at $1.55, up 21% from the $1.28 previous close. By 9:33 it hit $1.82 and was halted.
Stop It's 10:14. TC has been halted since 9:33 a.m. The last trade was $1.82, and there are bids stacked at $1.82 and $2.00. Would you buy when it reopens?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:11 a.m. and stop at 10:14 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at 10:14:06 at $3.05, 68% above where it stopped.
The third halt
More halts followed. The third came at 10:23:38, at $3.95.
Stop It's 10:28. TC has been halted since 10:23 with the last trade at $3.95. At 10:22 it traded as low as $2.80. Would you buy when it reopens?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:25 a.m. and stop at 10:28 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at $3.95 and soon hit $4.15, the high so far. The next push stopped at $3.94.
Near $2.23 at midday
By midday the price had slid near $2.23.
Stop It's 12:17. TC is at $2.23, well under the $4.15 high. There are large bids at $1.85 and $2.03 and a large sell wall at $2.39. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:14 p.m. and stop at 12:17 p.m. ET for your call.
At 12:17:47 the $1.85 bid, about 3% of the float, was pulled. The $2.03 bid left a second later. It closed at $1.30, 69% under the high.
What to take from it: A halt can reopen far from where it stopped, and the bids under the price can vanish in seconds.
Replay TC's day
It starts at 9:17 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:20 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
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 21.1% to $1.55 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $4.15 in 58 minutes through 3 halts, then gave back 110% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.30, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 6:09 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.28 | |
| 9:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.71 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.55, up 21.1% from the previous close | |
| 10:21 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.72 million shares | |
| 10:28 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.15 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.30, 68.7% 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
- $1.28
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.55
- Gap at the open
- +21.1%
- Pre-market high
- $1.71 at 9:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.15 at 10:28 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.17
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.30
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +1.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.00 at 5:40 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 11.69 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.42 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 1.72 million shares, from filings as of October 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.73 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 511,893 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (4%), 96,455 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 13.50 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (96%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.72 million shares: past it once at 10:21 a.m., twice at 10:30 a.m., three times at 10:41 a.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day TC met the small-cap rule.
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 (4)
| 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. | 10:14 a.m. | 40 min 34 s | up 12.3% | $3.05, up 67.6% | up 15.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:15 a.m. | 10:20 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 92.9% | $3.51, unchanged | up 12.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:23 a.m. | 10:28 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 12.5% | $3.95, unchanged | down 19.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:33 a.m. | 10:38 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 23.7% | $3.15, up 7.5% | down 12.4% | 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
Replay TC on October 14, 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.