Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 29, 2026
YMT, September 29: a run to $3.11
YMT opened up 21%, ran to $2.64, 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 $3.11, on 11M shares.
The open
It opened up 21%, at $2.15. It ran to $2.64 by 9:33 a.m.
The close
It closed at $1.80, 42% 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 21.5% to $2.15 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $2.64 in 3 minutes, then gave back 171% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.80, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.77 |
| 4:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.11 |
| 4:28 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.11 |
| 4:38 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 3.47 million shares |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.15, up 21.5% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.80, 42.1% 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
- $1.77
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.15
- Gap at the open
- +21.5%
- Pre-market high
- $3.11 at 4:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.11 at 4:28 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.61
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.80
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +1.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.12 at 5:40 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 15.09 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 380,205
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 27.7×
- Float
- 3.47 million shares, from filings as of September 29, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 25.39 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 10.56 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (68%), 2.90 million in the first 30 minutes (19%), and 2.00 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (13%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 3.47 million shares: past it once at 4:38 a.m., twice at 5:52 a.m., three times at 9:00 a.m.
- Other days YMT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 28, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, 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 YMT 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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