Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 1, 2026
RDAC, September 1: a 5-minute halt, a wall at $7.35, and $8.59
RDAC opened near its previous close, then ran to $8.59 through one halt during the session.
What happened
The halt at 10:11
Our data shows no news for this day. RDAC opened at $4.90 and sat quiet for 40 minutes. Then it ran to $5.65, and a volatility pause hit at 10:11:46.
Stop It's 10:16. RDAC last traded at $5.65 and has been halted since 10:11. It is about to reopen. It was around $4.80 an hour ago. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:13 a.m. and stop at 10:16 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at 10:16:46 at $5.85, 4% higher.
A wall, then a run
A sell wall marked the ceiling for a while. 50K shares appeared at $7.35 at 10:18:17 and were pulled at 10:24:51, never reached. From $6.58 at 10:50 it ran to $8.56 at 11:02, then dipped to $7.52.
Stop It's 11:10. RDAC is at $7.89, up from $4.90 at the open. It ran from $6.58 to $8.56 in the last 20 minutes and then pulled back to $7.52. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:07 a.m. and stop at 11:10 a.m. ET for your call.
It was nearly the top. The high was $8.59 at 11:11.
Lower highs to the close
After the high, each push stopped lower. Big bids at $6.10 and $6.02 were pulled later. It closed at $6.63.
What to take from it: Here, the halt reopened higher on a thin book, and the high came an hour later.
Replay RDAC's day
It starts at 10:02 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:05 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 7.5% at $4.90, then ran from the open to the high of $8.59 in 101 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:05 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.56 | |
| 4:07 a.m. | Pre-market high, $7.98 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.90, up 7.5% from the previous close | |
| 10:45 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 3.44 million shares | |
| 11:11 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.59 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $6.63, 22.9% 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
- $4.56
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.90
- Gap at the open
- +7.5%
- Pre-market high
- $7.98 at 4:07 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.59 at 11:11 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.45
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $6.63
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +45.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $7.06 at 4:51 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 10.36 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 193,513
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 16.7×
- Float
- 3.44 million shares, from filings as of September 1, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.44 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.08 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (10%), 25,966 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 9.45 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (90%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 3.44 million shares: past it once at 10:45 a.m., twice at 11:18 a.m., three times at 3:47 p.m.
- Other days RDAC met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on November 3, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:11 a.m. | 10:16 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 17.0% | $5.85, up 3.5% | up 15.2% | 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.
Trade this day
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