Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 14, 2026
TCRT, October 14: two halts and $4.40
TCRT opened up 21%, ran to $4.40 through two halts, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $4.17, on 12M shares.
The open
It opened up 21%, at $3.66. It ran to $4.40 by 9:45 a.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it two times, from 9:30 a.m. to 9:38 a.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 9:30 a.m.: 13% below the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $2.07, 53% under its high.
What to take from it: The whole move was given back: it finished below the price it opened at.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 20.8% to $3.66 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $4.40 in 15 minutes through two halts, then gave back 315% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $2.07, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.03 |
| 7:01 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.17 |
| 7:01 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.36 million shares |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.66, up 20.8% from the previous close |
| 9:45 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.40 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.07, 53.0% 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
- $3.03
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.66
- Gap at the open
- +20.8%
- Pre-market high
- $4.17 at 7:01 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.40 at 9:45 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.89
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.07
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −31.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.29 at 4:24 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 24.10 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 369,448
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 4.0×
- Float
- 2.36 million shares, from filings as of October 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.55 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 12.34 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (50%), 4.03 million in the first 30 minutes (16%), and 8.10 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (33%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.36 million shares: past it once at 7:01 a.m., twice at 7:14 a.m., three times at 7:34 a.m.
- Other days TCRT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on October 19, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 a.m. | 9:35 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 6.3% | $3.56, down 12.5% | up 15.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:38 a.m. | 9:43 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 1.0% | $4.11, unchanged | down 1.0% | 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.
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