Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 17, 2026
DTSS, September 17: a 9:10 headline, 17 halts, and $2.29
DTSS opened up 64%, ran to $2.29 through 17 halts, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
The headline
A 9:10 headline about five deals set DTSS off. It ran from $0.64 to $1.18 in three minutes. More than the whole float traded by 9:15.
A wall pulled
After a run of halts, an ask wall near 292K shares sat at $1.50. It was pulled one second after the 10:43:52 reopen.
Stop It's 10:44. DTSS is at $1.54, seconds after it reopened from a halt. The big ask wall that sat at $1.50 is gone. It was $1.90 at 10:22. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:41 a.m. and stop at 10:44 a.m. ET for your call.
It fell to $1.32 that minute, 31% below $1.90.
Halt after halt
From $1.35 it climbed through halt after halt. A 296K-share bid at $2.04 was pulled at 11:24:54, one second before the reopen.
Stop It's 11:25. DTSS reopened from its fourth halt since 11:00 five seconds ago at $2.18 and is at $2.19. It was $1.35 at 10:52. The bid wall at $2.04 was pulled just before the reopen. Would you chase it here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:22 a.m. and stop at 11:25 a.m. ET for your call.
It hit $2.29, the high, that minute. The 11:25:24 halt reopened 19% lower at $1.64. It closed at $1.22.
What to take from it: On DTSS, big walls vanished right at reopens, and most of the run was gone by the close.
Replay DTSS's day
It starts at 8:54 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 8:57 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
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 63.6% to $0.9673 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $2.29 in 115 minutes through 13 halts, then gave back 81% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.22, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.5912 | |
| 9:13 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.18 | |
| 9:15 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 8.19 million shares | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.9673, up 63.6% from the previous close | |
| 11:25 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.29 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.22, 46.7% 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
- $0.5912
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.9673
- Gap at the open
- +63.6%
- Pre-market high
- $1.18 at 9:13 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.29 at 11:25 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.5971
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.22
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +106.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.41 at 4:02 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 52.51 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.17 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 67.2×
- Float
- 8.19 million shares, from filings as of September 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 14.42 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 13.37 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (24%), 3.90 million in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 38.42 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (69%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 8.19 million shares: past it once at 9:15 a.m., twice at 9:53 a.m., three times at 10:48 a.m.
- Other days DTSS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 16, 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 (17)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:32 a.m. | 9:42 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 16.8% | $1.36, up 27.1% | up 11.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:43 a.m. | 9:53 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 41.1% | $1.65, up 9.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 9:53 a.m. | 10:03 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 0.7% | $1.35, down 10.0% | down 10.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:05 a.m. | 10:10 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 19.3% | $1.29, up 6.6% | up 15.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:12 a.m. | 10:22 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 23.1% | $1.75, up 17.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 10:22 a.m. | 10:32 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 27.5% | $1.80, down 5.3% | down 8.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:33 a.m. | 10:38 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.2% | $1.65, unchanged | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 10:38 a.m. | 10:43 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 9.1% | $1.45, down 3.3% | down 2.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:54 a.m. | 10:59 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 17.9% | $1.60, up 1.3% | up 13.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:00 a.m. | 11:05 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 14.6% | $1.63, down 9.9% | up 8.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:07 a.m. | 11:12 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 2.8% | $1.77, up 0.6% | up 8.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:14 a.m. | 11:19 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 9.1% | $1.89, down 1.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 11:19 a.m. | 11:24 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 6.3% | $2.18, up 6.9% | down 6.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:25 a.m. | 11:35 a.m. | 10 min 1 s | down 0.5% | $1.64, down 19.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 11:35 a.m. | 11:40 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 26.6% | $1.40, down 6.0% | down 3.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:48 a.m. | 11:53 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 11.3% | $1.13, down 4.2% | up 9.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:00 p.m. | 12:05 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.7% | $1.10, up 2.8% | up 7.3% | 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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