Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 16, 2026
DCX, September 16: one halt and $0.55
DCX opened near its previous close, ran to $0.55 through one halt, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $0.3694, on 5K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $0.3528. It ran to $0.55 by 1:54 p.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 1:57 p.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 1:57 p.m.: 6% below the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $0.3201, 42% under its high.
What to take from it: The run did not hold: it finished below where it opened.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run and fade. It opened up 0.9% at $0.3528, then ran from the open to the high of $0.55 in 264 minutes, and gave it all back: it traded at $0.3201 at 4:00 p.m., below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:57 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.3694 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.3528, up 0.9% from the previous close |
| 12:48 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.3495 |
| 1:54 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $0.55 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.3201, 41.8% 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
- $0.3495
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.3528
- Gap at the open
- +0.9%
- Pre-market high
- $0.3694 at 6:57 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.55 at 1:54 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.2624
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.3201
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −8.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.14 at 4:54 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.13 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 38.10 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 860.6×
- Float
- 351.54 million shares, from filings as of September 16, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 351.58 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4,997 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 5,294 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 39.22 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days DCX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 13, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:57 p.m. | 2:02 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 18.3% | $0.2999, down 6.3% | unchanged | 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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