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Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 15, 2026

MEDS, September 15: five halts and $3.85

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MEDS opened near its previous close, then ran to $3.85 through five halts during the session.

$3.85$0.88194 a.m.9:30noon4 p.m.8 p.m.
MEDS on September 15, 2026, one-minute bars, New York time. Bands: halts. Flags: the news or filing before the move. Dotted line: the previous close. Shaded: before the 9:30 a.m. open and after the 4:00 p.m. close.

What happened

Quiet, then a run

MEDS sat near $0.87 all morning with no news. After noon, volume poured in. At 1:04 p.m. it hit $1.48 and was halted. A 114K-share bid waited at $1.48.

Stop It's 1:09. MEDS has been halted since 1:04 with the last trade at $1.48. The bid at $1.48 showed 114,415 shares at the halt. Would you buy when it reopens?

Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:06 p.m. and stop at 1:09 p.m. ET for your call.

Big bids, then gone

That bid did not stay. It reopened at 1:09:47, and both walls at $1.48 were gone by 1:09:48. Two more halts followed. It reopened at $2.67, and a 260K-share bid at $2.40 was pulled at 1:31:17.

Stop It's 1:32. MEDS is at $3.41. It reopened from a halt at $2.67 two minutes ago and has already passed $3. Would you chase it here?

Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:29 p.m. and stop at 1:32 p.m. ET for your call.

Top and fade

That minute was the top. It hit $3.85, the high of the day. At 1:33:30 it was halted at $2.65, 31% lower. It closed at $1.63. The deal news came at 4:05 p.m., after the close.

What to take from it: On MEDS, big bids during halts did not hold, and the top came within minutes.

Replay MEDS's day

It starts at 12:52 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 12:55 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 up 1.5% at $0.8949, then ran from the open to the high of $3.85 in 242 minutes through 3 halts.

Time (ET)What happenedWatch it
8:30 a.m.Pre-market high, $0.9398
9:30 a.m.The open: $0.8949, up 1.5% from the previous close
12:57 p.m.First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.8819
1:30 p.m.Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.38 million shares
1:32 p.m.High of the day to the close, $3.85
3:59 p.m.Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.63, 57.7% 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
$0.8819
Open, 9:30 a.m.
$0.8949
Gap at the open
+1.5%
Pre-market high
$0.9398 at 8:30 a.m.
High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$3.85 at 1:32 p.m.
Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$0.852
Close, 4 p.m.
$1.63
Change at 4 p.m.
+84.8%
After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
$2.70 at 5:32 p.m.
Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
16.34 million
Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
5.51 million
Relative volume by 8 p.m.
70.0×
Float
2.38 million shares, from filings as of September 15, 2026
Shares outstanding
3.06 million
  • Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1,611 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 3,933 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 21.84 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
  • Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.38 million shares: past it once at 1:30 p.m., twice at 1:39 p.m., three times at 1:48 p.m.
  • Other days MEDS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 8, the latest on October 12, 2026.
  • The next session, September 16, 2026, it was up 274.1% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.

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 (5)
HaltedResumedLengthThe 5 minutes into itReopened at, against the last tradeThe 5 minutes afterReason in the feedWatch it
1:04 p.m.1:09 p.m.5 min 0 sup 31.0%$1.48, unchangedup 20.3%LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
1:10 p.m.1:20 p.m.10 min 0 sup 20.3%$2.00, up 12.4%LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
1:20 p.m.1:30 p.m.10 min 0 sup 34.8%$2.67, up 11.3%down 0.7%LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
1:33 p.m.1:38 p.m.5 min 0 sup 10.4%$2.69, up 1.5%up 12.6%LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
2:01 p.m.2:06 p.m.5 min 0 sdown 26.3%$2.04, down 0.5%up 13.7%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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