Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 17, 2026
QXL, September 17: news and $6.10
QXL opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $6.10 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 7:55 a.m. Before the bell it reached $5.60, on 3K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $5.50. It ran to $6.10 by 3:20 p.m.
The close
It closed at $5.78, 5% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 6.6% at $5.50, then ran from the open to the high of $6.10 in 350 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:30 a.m. | SEC filing 4: 4 |
| 7:55 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Quantum X Labs Launches Quantum-Native Cybersecurity Program Designed to Harness Quantum Properties for Next-Generation Security |
| 8:02 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.60 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.50, up 6.6% from the previous close |
| 3:20 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.10 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.78, 5.2% 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
- $5.16
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.50
- Gap at the open
- +6.6%
- Pre-market high
- $5.60 at 8:02 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.10 at 3:20 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.06
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.78
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +12.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.99 at 4:58 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 209,580
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 423
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.3×
- Float
- 18.05 million shares, from filings as of September 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 21.57 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3,107 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 75,601 in the first 30 minutes (36%), and 131,295 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (63%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day QXL met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers. 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for QXL that day.
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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