Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 1, 2026
DAIC, September 1: one halt and $4.80
DAIC opened near its previous close, then ran to $4.80 through one halt during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.58, on 45K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.24. It ran to $4.80 by 9:49 a.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 9:53 a.m.
The close
It closed at $3.60, 25% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened down 6.9% at $3.24, then ran from the open to the high of $4.80 in 19 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:55 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.58 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.24, down 6.9% from the previous close |
| 9:42 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.48 |
| 9:48 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 853,881 shares |
| 9:49 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.80 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.60, 25.0% 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
- $3.48
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.24
- Gap at the open
- −6.9%
- Pre-market high
- $3.58 at 6:55 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.80 at 9:49 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.07
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.60
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +3.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.73 at 5:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.25 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 71,747
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 0.6×
- Float
- 853,881 shares, from filings as of September 1, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.21 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 45,099 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 1.63 million in the first 30 minutes (38%), and 2.65 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (61%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 853,881 shares: past it once at 9:48 a.m., twice at 10:01 a.m., three times at 10:18 a.m.
- Other days DAIC met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on October 12, 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:53 a.m. | 9:58 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 14.4% | $3.78, down 4.8% | up 16.1% | 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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