Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 18, 2026
GIPR, September 18: a 443,479-share bid, nine halts, and $1.73
GIPR more than tripled at the open, ran to $1.73 through nine halts, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
The open
GIPR opened at $1.49, up 239%. A 443K-share bid at $1.56 was eaten at a halt reopen. It hit $1.73 at 9:40.
Then a 400K-share ask wall sat at $1.55. A halt at 9:41:22 froze it there. It reopened 16% lower, at $1.30.
Stop It's 9:53. GIPR is at $1.36. It reopened from a halt about a minute and a half ago at $1.30, and the high so far is $1.73. An ask wall that reached 399,817 shares is still sitting at $1.55. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:50 a.m. and stop at 9:53 a.m. ET for your call.
A seller swept it to $1.17 that minute. The wall was pulled at 9:53:52.
Lower highs
Stop It's 10:38. GIPR is at $1.20. It has held between about $1.06 and $1.25 since 10:19, and the high so far is $1.73. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:35 a.m. and stop at 10:38 a.m. ET for your call.
Buyers pushed it to $1.46, then a halt reset it to $1.18.
Stop It's 10:57. GIPR is at $1.56, up from the $1.18 reopen at 10:50. The high so far is $1.73. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:54 a.m. and stop at 10:57 a.m. ET for your call.
It topped at $1.68, under $1.73, and was halted at 10:59:35.
The fade
At 2:15 p.m. a $4.3M warrant deal hit the wire, and a halt followed. It reopened at $0.84. It closed at $0.72.
What to take from it: Every push after the first top stopped lower.
Replay GIPR's day
It starts at 6:56 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 6:59 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 and fade. It gapped up 239.0% to $1.49 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.73 in 10 minutes through two halts, then gave back 420% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $0.7222, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.4395 | |
| 4:13 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.84 million shares | |
| 9:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.50 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.49, up 239.0% from the previous close | |
| 9:40 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.73 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.7222, 58.3% 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
- $0.4395
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.49
- Gap at the open
- +239.0%
- Pre-market high
- $1.50 at 9:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.73 at 9:40 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.5304
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.7222
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +64.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $0.761 at 5:38 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 109.79 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.36 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 10.2×
- Float
- 2.84 million shares, from filings as of September 18, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.04 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 62.69 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (56%), 8.03 million in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 41.44 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (37%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.84 million shares: past it once at 4:13 a.m., twice at 4:34 a.m., three times at 5:35 a.m.
- Other days GIPR met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 24, 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 (9)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 a.m. | 9:35 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 19.1% | $1.56, unchanged | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 9:35 a.m. | 9:40 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 9.6% | $1.70, down 0.6% | down 8.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:41 a.m. | 9:51 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 9.4% | $1.30, down 16.1% | down 0.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:01 a.m. | 10:06 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 10.8% | $1.44, unchanged | down 10.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:07 a.m. | 10:12 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 10.4% | $1.22, down 5.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 10:12 a.m. | 10:17 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 16.3% | $1.06, down 1.9% | up 9.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:45 a.m. | 10:50 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 12.2% | $1.18, down 3.3% | up 37.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:59 a.m. | 11:04 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.0% | $1.27, down 9.9% | up 8.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:15 p.m. | 2:20 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 14.3% | $0.8387, down 9.8% | up 12.1% | 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 GIPR on September 18, 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.