Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 1, 2026
QSI, October 1: a run to $1.48
QSI opened up 12%, ran to $1.48, and held most of the move into the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.24, on 986K shares.
The open
It opened up 12%, at $1.20. It ran to $1.48 by 2:48 p.m.
The close
It closed at $1.43, near its high.
What to take from it: A gap that holds above its open can keep going: this one held most of its move to the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and go. It gapped up 12.1% to $1.20 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.48 in 318 minutes, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 18% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:07 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.24 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.20, up 12.1% from the previous close |
| 9:57 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.07 |
| 2:48 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.48 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.43, 3.4% 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
- $1.07
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.20
- Gap at the open
- +12.1%
- Pre-market high
- $1.24 at 5:07 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.48 at 2:48 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.09
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.43
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +33.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.45 at 4:16 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 10.94 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 513,717
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 13.0×
- Float
- 172.53 million shares, from filings as of October 1, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 218.88 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 986,005 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (9%), 1.63 million in the first 30 minutes (14%), and 8.84 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (77%).
- Other days QSI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 9, 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 QSI 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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