Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 23, 2026
YMAT, September 23: a quiet morning, one halt, and $1.99
YMAT opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.99 through one halt during the session.
What happened
A quiet morning
With no news in the data, YMAT barely moved. It opened at $1.33, a penny above the $1.32 close, and sat at $1.20 by 12:41.
Midday
Stop It's 12:48. YMAT is at $1.41. Seven minutes ago it was $1.20, and the pre-market high was $1.37. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:45 p.m. and stop at 12:48 p.m. ET for your call.
It ran to $1.46 that minute. A volatility halt froze it at 12:49:48 with the last trade at $1.71.
It reopened at 12:59:48 at $1.98, 16% higher, and hit the $1.99 high that minute.
The $1.25 bid
The pop faded fast. By 1:24 a bid of 22K shares sat at $1.25.
Stop It's 1:37. YMAT is at $1.25. A bid wall that peaked at 21,755 shares has been sitting at $1.25 since 1:23. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:34 p.m. and stop at 1:37 p.m. ET for your call.
At 1:37:50 the wall was pulled, after only 9,710 shares traded there. The next minute hit $1.20. It closed at $1.36, 32% below the high.
What to take from it: The reopen and the big bid both looked solid, and neither held.
Replay YMAT's day
It starts at 12:37 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 12:40 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 0.8% at $1.33, then ran from the open to the high of $1.99 in 209 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 5:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.37 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.33, up 0.8% from the previous close | |
| 12:49 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.32 | |
| 12:59 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.99 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.27, 36.2% 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
- $1.32
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.33
- Gap at the open
- +0.8%
- Pre-market high
- $1.37 at 5:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.99 at 12:59 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.16
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.27
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −3.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.36 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.24 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 56,733
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.3×
- Float
- 2.70 million shares, from filings as of September 23, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.01 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1,727 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 7,210 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 2.29 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days YMAT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, the latest on October 26, 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 | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:49 p.m. | 12:59 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 27.6% | $1.98, up 15.8% | down 22.7% | 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.
Trade this day
Replay YMAT on September 23, 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.