Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on November 3, 2026
CRIS, November 3: a quiet morning, seven halts, and $1.50
CRIS opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.50 through seven halts during the session.
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
Hours of drift, then a break
For most of the morning CRIS barely moved. It opened at $0.71, and from 9:30 to 11:59 it stayed between $0.69 and $0.84. Then it began to climb: $0.83 at 11:59 a.m., and about 114K shares in the 12:10 minute alone. At 12:11:42 it was halted for the first time, at $1.06.
The run to $1.50
After the 12:16:42 reopen it hit $1.17, and the 12:18:48 halt came with the stock at $1.33. After the 12:29:58 reopen it reached $1.50 at 12:31, the high of the day, up 127% from the previous close. It was back at $1.37 by the end of that minute.
The fade
Four more halts followed. It touched $1.33 at 12:46, then fell to $0.95 into the 12:56:53 halt. After the 1:01:53 reopen it fell to $0.6325 at 1:30. The last regular-session bar, 3:59 p.m., closed at $0.6994, 53% under the high. The float of 6.6M shares had traded by 1:10 p.m., and regular-session volume was 9.5M.
After hours it ran from $0.645 at 4:13 p.m. to $1.27 by 5:23 p.m.
What to take from it: A $1.50 spike on no news was gone within an hour, and the stock closed near where it started.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 7.4% at $0.71, then ran from the open to the high of $1.50 in 181 minutes through 3 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.7344 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.71, up 7.4% from the previous close |
| 10:55 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.661 |
| 12:31 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.50 |
| 1:05 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 6.58 million shares |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.6994, 53.4% 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
- $0.661
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.71
- Gap at the open
- +7.4%
- Pre-market high
- $0.7344 at 9:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.50 at 12:31 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.6234
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.6994
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +5.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.27 at 5:23 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 9.46 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 6.03 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 51.2×
- Float
- 6.58 million shares, from filings as of November 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 6.68 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 11,178 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 53,306 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 15.42 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 6.58 million shares: past it once at 1:05 p.m., twice at 5:36 p.m.
- Other days CRIS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 13, 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 (7)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:11 p.m. | 12:16 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 29.1% | $1.05, down 0.9% | up 26.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:18 p.m. | 12:23 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 25.5% | $1.29, down 3.0% | up 13.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:24 p.m. | 12:29 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 9.8% | $1.39, down 4.8% | down 10.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:33 p.m. | 12:38 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 15.1% | $1.20, down 3.2% | down 7.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:39 p.m. | 12:44 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 10.5% | $1.10, down 0.9% | up 7.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:49 p.m. | 12:54 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 5.4% | $1.06, unchanged | down 10.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:56 p.m. | 1:01 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 10.4% | $0.935, down 1.6% | up 10.2% | 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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