Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 29, 2026
NCPL, September 29: a run to $1.86
NCPL opened up 24%, ran to $1.86, 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 $1.43, on 588K shares.
The open
It opened up 24%, at $1.34. It ran to $1.86 by 9:47 a.m.
The close
It closed at $1.22, 34% under its high.
What to take from it: The whole move was given back: it finished below the price it opened at.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 24.1% to $1.34 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.86 in 17 minutes, then gave back 123% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.22, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:16 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.08 |
| 9:21 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.43 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.34, up 24.1% from the previous close |
| 9:47 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.86 |
| 10:00 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 6.71 million shares |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.22, 34.4% 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
- $1.08
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.34
- Gap at the open
- +24.1%
- Pre-market high
- $1.43 at 9:21 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.86 at 9:47 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.12
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.22
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +13.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.38 at 5:12 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 9.10 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 423,793
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 1.2×
- Float
- 6.71 million shares, from filings as of September 29, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 7.85 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 588,393 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (6%), 6.07 million in the first 30 minutes (64%), and 2.87 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (30%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 6.71 million shares: past it once at 10:00 a.m.
- Other days NCPL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 18, the latest on October 30, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for NCPL 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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