Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 6, 2026
SMXT, October 6: a quiet morning, a halt at 12:06, and $3.69
SMXT opened near its previous close, then ran to $3.69 through one halt during the session.
What happened
The $2.82 bid
No news came out today. SMXT opened flat at $2.37 and woke up at 11:11. By 11:49 it printed $2.94.
A 26K-share bid sat at $2.82 just underneath.
Stop It's 11:57. SMXT is at $2.88. A bid wall that peaked near 26,000 shares at 11:49 is still sitting at $2.82, just below. The high so far is $2.94 from 11:49, a few cents above. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:54 a.m. and stop at 11:57 a.m. ET for your call.
That bid was pulled at 11:58:05. The stock broke $3.00 that minute and hit $3.56 at 12:03.
The halt
Then it reversed. At 12:06:30 it was halted at $2.52.
Stop It's 12:11. SMXT is halted and about to reopen. The last trade before the halt was $2.52, and the stock was at $3.56 eight minutes ago. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:08 p.m. and stop at 12:11 p.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at 12:11:30 at $2.51. A minute later it was down to $2.32, 35% under the high.
High and close
Later it ran to the $3.69 high at 2:22, then fell to $3.17 the next minute. It closed at $3.43.
What to take from it: Here the big bid under the price was pulled, and the spike that followed reversed within minutes.
Replay SMXT's day
It starts at 1:15 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 1:18 p.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
Intraday run. It opened up 0.0% at $2.37, then ran from the open to the high of $3.69 in 292 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:11 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.37 | |
| 5:08 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.91 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.37, up 0.0% from the previous close | |
| 2:22 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.69 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.41, 7.6% 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
- $2.37
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.37
- Gap at the open
- +0.0%
- Pre-market high
- $2.91 at 5:08 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.69 at 2:22 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.09
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.41
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +43.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.58 at 7:02 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.42 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 91,649
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 4.54 million shares, from filings as of October 6, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.74 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 8,107 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 158 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 1.50 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day SMXT met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:06 p.m. | 12:11 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 17.6% | $2.51, down 0.4% | down 6.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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 SMXT on October 6, 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.