Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 19, 2026
RPGL, October 19: a run to $12.00
RPGL opened up 22%, ran to $9.80, 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 $12.00, on 256K shares.
The open
It opened up 22%, at $8.43. It ran to $9.80 by 10:21 a.m.
The close
It closed at $8.00, 33% 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 22.4% to $8.43 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $9.80 in 51 minutes, then gave back 131% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $8.00, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:02 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $6.89 |
| 4:05 a.m. | Pre-market high, $12.00 |
| 4:05 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $12.00 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $8.43, up 22.4% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $8.00, 33.3% 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
- $6.89
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $8.43
- Gap at the open
- +22.4%
- Pre-market high
- $12.00 at 4:05 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $12.00 at 4:05 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.33
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $8.00
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +16.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $8.45 at 4:46 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 417,387
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 12,873
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 5.8×
- Float
- 1.01 million shares, from filings as of October 19, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.01 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 256,174 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (60%), 29,722 in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 144,364 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (34%).
- Other days RPGL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, the latest on October 16, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for RPGL 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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