Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 8, 2026
GCDT, September 8: a 10:15 headline, three ask walls, one halt, and $1.17
GCDT opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $1.17 through one halt during the session.
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What happened
The headline
On this day news at 10:15 woke up a stock that had barely traded. A partnership headline hit, and GCDT ran from $0.36 to $0.63 by 10:31.
The wall at $0.60
From 10:55 a large offer sat at exactly $0.60, just above the price.
Stop It's 11:06. GCDT is at $0.59. A large ask wall has sat at exactly $0.60 since 10:55. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:03 a.m. and stop at 11:06 a.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate it. 155K shares traded at $0.60 in under a second, and the wall was gone. The run reached $0.86 by 11:30.
The wall at $0.80
Another big offer sat at $0.80 for hours. Late in the day the stock climbed toward it.
Stop It's 3:30. GCDT is at $0.77. A large ask wall has sat at $0.80 since 11:54 a.m. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:27 p.m. and stop at 3:30 p.m. ET for your call.
At 3:30:33 one buy order swept through it. The wall was gone by 3:30:34, and that minute closed at $0.93.
At 3:30:59 it was halted. It reopened at $1.02, about 10% higher.
The top and the fade
The reopen ran to $1.17, the high, in the 3:35 minute. A 106K-share bid at $1.04 was pulled after a sell sweep. It closed at $0.93.
What to take from it: Both walls broke fast, but the second one left thin offers behind it, and the high faded into the close.
Replay GCDT's day
It starts at 3:17 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 3:20 p.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 down 3.0% at $0.363, then ran from the open to the high of $1.17 in 365 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:26 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.374 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.363, down 3.0% from the previous close | |
| 10:15 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Green Circle Decarbonize Technology Limited Entering into Strategic Partnership Agreement for Mass Production of BocaPCM-TES Panels in the People's Republic of China | |
| 10:15 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.3741 | |
| 10:32 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 7.19 million shares | |
| 3:35 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.17 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.9349, 20.1% 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
- $0.3741
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.363
- Gap at the open
- −3.0%
- Pre-market high
- $0.374 at 7:26 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.17 at 3:35 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.361
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.9349
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +149.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.10 at 4:47 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 115.39 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 18.28 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 308.9×
- Float
- 7.19 million shares, from filings as of September 8, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 13.55 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 10:15 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 11 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 150 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 133.67 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 7.19 million shares: past it once at 10:32 a.m., twice at 10:43 a.m., three times at 11:01 a.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day GCDT met the small-cap rule.
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 | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:30 p.m. | 3:35 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 19.1% | $1.02, up 9.7% | up 7.8% | 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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