Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 5, 2026
SCKT, October 5: a run to $1.19
SCKT opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.19 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $0.9301, on 4.7M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $0.7709. It ran to $1.19 by 12:00 p.m.
The close
It closed at $0.9202, 23% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 9.0% at $0.7709, then ran from the open to the high of $1.19 in 150 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.7073 |
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.9301 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.7709, up 9.0% from the previous close |
| 9:42 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 5.76 million shares |
| 12:00 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.19 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.9202, 22.7% 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
- $0.7073
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.7709
- Gap at the open
- +9.0%
- Pre-market high
- $0.9301 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.19 at 12:00 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.7253
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.9202
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +30.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $0.98 at 5:12 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 18.96 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 505,713
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 5.2×
- Float
- 5.76 million shares, from filings as of October 5, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.29 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4.74 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (24%), 3.71 million in the first 30 minutes (19%), and 11.02 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (57%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 5.76 million shares: past it once at 9:42 a.m., twice at 11:45 a.m., three times at 1:02 p.m.
- Other days SCKT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 12, 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 SCKT 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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