Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 19, 2026
WORX, October 19: a 10:10 headline, two halts, and $3.77
WORX opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $3.77 through two halts during the session.
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What happened
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A headline, then a halt
At 10:10 a.m. GlobeNewsWire ran “SCWorx Announces New Agreement with Healthcare System.” Two minutes later, at 10:12:48, WORX was halted.
Stop It's 10:17. WORX has been halted since 10:12:48. The last trade was $1.96, and the previous close was $1.38. The float is 742K shares. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:14 a.m. and stop at 10:17 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at 10:17:48 and hit $2.52 two minutes later. By 10:18 more shares had traded than the 742K-share float.
A bid that sellers ate
Midday, a 57K-share bid at $2.23 built up and peaked at 11:44. Sellers hit it: 76,536 shares traded at exactly $2.23 in about a minute, and it was gone by 11:47.
The afternoon halt and the top
At 1:48 p.m. it was halted at $3.18, with a 151K-share bid sitting at that price.
Stop It's 1:53. WORX has been halted since 13:48:24. The last trade was $3.18, up from $2.61 at 1:46. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:50 p.m. and stop at 1:53 p.m. ET for your call.
The bid was pulled at 1:52:12. It reopened at $3.28 and hit $3.77 at 1:54, the regular-session high.
It closed at $2.66, 29% under that high.
What to take from it: A big bid at a halt price said little: the $3.18 bid was pulled before the reopen, and the $3.77 high faded by the close.
Replay WORX's day
It starts at 10:01 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:04 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
Intraday run. It opened up 0.7% at $1.39, then ran from the open to the high of $3.77 in 264 minutes through two halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.51 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.39, up 0.7% from the previous close | |
| 10:10 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): SCWorx Announces New Agreement with Healthcare System | |
| 10:11 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.38 | |
| 10:18 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 742,099 shares | |
| 1:54 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.77 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.66, 29.4% 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
- $1.38
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.39
- Gap at the open
- +0.7%
- Pre-market high
- $1.51 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.77 at 1:54 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.27
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.66
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +92.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.27 at 6:45 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 46.30 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 8.38 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 106.8×
- Float
- 742,099 shares, from filings as of October 19, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 742,099
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 minute after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 10:10 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 20,596 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 2,509 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 54.66 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 742,099 shares: past it once at 10:18 a.m., twice at 10:20 a.m., three times at 10:22 a.m.
- Other days WORX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on October 26, 2026.
- The next session, October 20, 2026, it was up 36.9% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners, after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:12 a.m. | 10:17 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 44.1% | $1.97, up 0.5% | up 11.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:48 p.m. | 1:53 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 20.5% | $3.28, up 3.1% | up 4.3% | 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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