Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 29, 2026
SSTI, September 29: a 7:35 headline, $8.75, and a day pinned near $8.30
SSTI opened up 52% after news and held near that level into the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
One minute, $5.50 to $8.75
A buyout headline ran at 7:35 a.m., and the whole move came in that one minute. SSTI traded from $5.50 to $8.75, the high of the day. By 7:42 the swings were over, and it held between $8.06 and $8.34 until the bell.
The open
SSTI opened at $8.30, up 52% from the $5.47 close.
Stop It's 9:30. SSTI is opening at $8.30, up 52% from the $5.47 previous close, after a buyout headline at 7:35. Would you buy the open?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:27 a.m. and stop at 9:30 a.m. ET for your call.
The open went almost nowhere. It peaked at $8.43 at 9:31, just 13 cents up, and that was the session high.
A wall at $8.30
A bid appeared at $8.30 at 10:08 and grew to 59K shares by 10:13.
Stop It's 10:24. SSTI is at $8.30. A bid wall that peaked near 59,000 shares has been at $8.30 since 10:08. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:21 a.m. and stop at 10:24 a.m. ET for your call.
The bid did not hold. At 10:24:40, 28K shares hit it in under a second, and at 10:24:41 it was pulled. By 10:38 it was $8.26.
A quiet close
The afternoon only drifted. The low after the open was $8.18 at 3:24. The last regular minute closed at $8.22, 6% under the high. No halts all day.
What to take from it: The whole move happened in one pre-market minute, and after that SSTI barely moved.
Replay SSTI's day
It starts at 7:31 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 7:34 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 and hold. It gapped up 51.7% to $8.30 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $8.22 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:35 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): SoundThinking to be Acquired by Transom Capital Group | |
| 7:35 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.47 | |
| 7:35 a.m. | Pre-market high, $8.75 | |
| 7:35 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.75 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $8.30, up 51.7% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $8.22, 6.1% 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
- $5.47
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $8.30
- Gap at the open
- +51.7%
- Pre-market high
- $8.75 at 7:35 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.75 at 7:35 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.50
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $8.22
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +50.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $8.50 at 4:02 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.68 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 21,382
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 62.6×
- Float
- 9.52 million shares, from filings as of September 29, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 13.16 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 7:35 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.19 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (44%), 357,399 in the first 30 minutes (13%), and 1.16 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (43%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day SSTI met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 SSTI 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.
Trade this day
Replay SSTI on September 29, 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.