Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 9, 2026
FTFT, September 9: two halts, the $3.00 wall, and $3.54
FTFT opened near its previous close, then ran to $3.54 through two halts during the session.
What happened
Halt and reopen
No news came out. It ran from $1.61 to $2.13 in four minutes and halted at 10:49:23. It reopened 21% higher, at $2.57.
Stop It's 11:15. FTFT is at $3.28. It reopened from its halt 11 minutes ago at $2.57 and has traded as high as $3.30 since. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:12 a.m. and stop at 11:15 a.m. ET for your call.
It hit $3.54, then halted again at $2.58 and reopened lower, at $2.43.
The $3.00 wall
On this day one round number was the test. A 78K-share ask sat at exactly $3.00 from 11:59.
Stop It's 12:23. FTFT is at $2.83. Since 11:59 a big ask wall has sat at exactly $3.00, and it has held as many as 77,826 shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:20 p.m. and stop at 12:23 p.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate it. 49K shares traded at $3.00 in 3 seconds, and the wall was gone at 12:24:11.
After the wall
Stop It's 12:35. FTFT is at $3.02. The $3.00 wall was eaten 11 minutes ago, and the stock has stayed between $2.76 and $3.10 since 12:25. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:32 p.m. and stop at 12:35 p.m. ET for your call.
It pushed to $3.40 at 12:36, below the top, then sellers took over. It closed at $2.07.
What to take from it: After the $3.54 top, the next push stopped lower.
Replay FTFT's day
It starts at 10:31 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:34 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 down 3.1% at $1.27, then ran from the open to the high of $3.54 in 105 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.33 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.27, down 3.1% from the previous close | |
| 10:44 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.31 | |
| 11:15 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.54 | |
| 11:26 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 7.47 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.07, 41.5% 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
- $1.31
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.27
- Gap at the open
- −3.1%
- Pre-market high
- $1.33 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.54 at 11:15 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.23
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.07
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +58.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.94 at 5:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 22.52 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.18 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 55.8×
- Float
- 7.47 million shares, from filings as of September 9, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.06 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2,743 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 2,728 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 26.69 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 7.47 million shares: past it once at 11:26 a.m., twice at 12:31 p.m., three times at 3:56 p.m.
- Other days FTFT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on October 28, 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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:49 a.m. | 11:04 a.m. | 15 min 1 s | up 34.8% | $2.57, up 20.7% | up 8.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:21 a.m. | 11:26 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 23.9% | $2.43, down 5.8% | down 4.1% | 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.
Trade this day
Replay FTFT on September 9, 2026 in Hindsight Markets: the real tape, the order book and the halts, on a clock you control, and see where your orders would have filled.