Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 28, 2026
CHSN, October 28: three halts and a $1.65 wall eaten
CHSN opened up 41%, ran to $1.70 through three halts, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
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A gap, then a drop below $0.90
CHSN opened at $1.52, up 41% from the $1.08 previous close, and reached $1.68 at 9:31. A volatility halt hit at 9:33:58 with the last trade at $1.18. It reopened at $1.11 and fell to $0.8796 by 9:42, 48% under the $1.68 high.
Two more halts
It was back to $1.44 by 9:52 and halted again at 9:52:52. The third halt came at 10:19:45 at $1.21 and reopened at 10:24:45 at $1.13.
The wall at $1.65
From 11:43 a.m. an ask wall sat at $1.65. It peaked at 92,506 shares at 12:40, about 1.3% of the float.
Stop It's 1:02. CHSN is at $1.63. An ask wall at $1.65 has been on the book since 11:43 and peaked at 92K shares, and the high so far today is $1.68 from 9:31. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:59 p.m. and stop at 1:02 p.m. ET for your call.
From 1:02:02, trades printed at $1.65. In 18 seconds, 67,086 shares traded at exactly $1.65 and the wall was gone. It touched $1.70, the high of the day, and the next minute traded as low as $1.51.
The fade
It pushed to $1.57 at 1:32 p.m., then slid to $1.26 at 2:08. It closed at $1.45.
What to take from it: The stock hit $1.70 just as 67K shares cleared $1.65, and the next minute it traded as low as $1.51.
Replay CHSN's day
It starts at 9:37 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:40 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, gave some back. It gapped up 40.7% to $1.52 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.70 in 212 minutes through 3 halts, then gave back 139% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.45, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:19 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.08 | |
| 9:22 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.57 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.52, up 40.7% from the previous close | |
| 10:03 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 7.32 million shares | |
| 1:02 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.70 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.45, 14.7% 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
- $1.08
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.52
- Gap at the open
- +40.7%
- Pre-market high
- $1.57 at 9:22 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.70 at 1:02 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.8796
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.45
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +34.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.61 at 4:16 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 25.23 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 939,261
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 389.0×
- Float
- 7.32 million shares, from filings as of October 28, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 7.32 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2.56 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (10%), 4.46 million in the first 30 minutes (17%), and 19.14 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (73%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 7.32 million shares: past it once at 10:03 a.m., twice at 11:21 a.m., three times at 1:02 p.m.
- Other days CHSN met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on November 3, 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 (3)
| 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. | 9:38 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 18.1% | $1.11, down 5.9% | down 17.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:52 a.m. | 9:57 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 32.1% | $1.44, unchanged | down 12.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:19 a.m. | 10:24 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 22.4% | $1.13, down 6.6% | up 13.3% | 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.
Trade this day
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