Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 7, 2026
SXTC, October 7: the $2.60 wall, five halts, and $9.59
SXTC more than doubled at the open, ran to $9.59 through five halts, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
The $2.60 wall
All morning, a seller offered stock at $2.60. It peaked near 62K shares, about 5% of the float.
Stop It's 8:16. SXTC is at $2.43 after closing the last minute at $2.44. A large ask wall has been sitting at $2.60 since 6:18 a.m. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 8:13 a.m. and stop at 8:16 a.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate the wall. 75K shares traded at $2.60 in 15 seconds. That minute it hit $7.07. By 8:42 it was back at $2.00.
The $3.00 wall
It opened at $3.20 and slid to $1.87 by 11:07. A 100K-share ask wall sat at $3.00.
Stop It's 12:53. SXTC is at $2.85. An ask wall has been sitting at $3.00 since 9:41. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:50 p.m. and stop at 12:53 p.m. ET for your call.
57K shares cleared the $3.00 wall in 8 seconds. It was halted at 12:55:36 and reopened at $3.69.
It ran to $4.88, then fell to $3.64.
Stop It's 1:25. SXTC is at $4.70. It has climbed from $3.64 at 1:09. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:22 p.m. and stop at 1:25 p.m. ET for your call.
The top and the fall
It kept climbing. After a halt at 1:25:56, it hit $9.59 at 2:00 p.m. Three more halts came on the way down. It closed at $2.83, 70% below the high.
What to take from it: Both walls broke fast, but most of the gain was gone by the close.
Replay SXTC's day
It starts at 7:58 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 8:01 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, run and fade. It gapped up 156.0% to $3.20 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $9.59 in 270 minutes through two halts, then gave back 106% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $2.83, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.25 | |
| 4:57 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.32 million shares | |
| 8:16 a.m. | Pre-market high, $7.07 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.20, up 156.0% from the previous close | |
| 2:00 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $9.59 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.83, 70.5% 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
- $1.25
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.20
- Gap at the open
- +156.0%
- Pre-market high
- $7.07 at 8:16 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.59 at 2:00 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.56
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.83
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +126.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.84 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 57.94 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.67 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 103.9×
- Float
- 1.32 million shares, from filings as of October 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.32 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 18.83 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (31%), 5.32 million in the first 30 minutes (9%), and 36.47 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (60%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.32 million shares: past it once at 4:57 a.m., twice at 5:13 a.m., three times at 5:39 a.m.
- Other days SXTC met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on October 6, 2026.
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 (5)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:55 p.m. | 1:00 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 21.9% | $3.69, up 3.7% | up 4.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:25 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 29.9% | $5.53, up 2.6% | up 8.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:49 p.m. | 2:54 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 24.1% | $4.32, up 5.4% | down 0.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 3:14 p.m. | 3:24 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 30.8% | $4.73, up 14.8% | down 5.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 3:32 p.m. | 3:42 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 26.6% | $3.14, down 9.0% | down 12.7% | 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 SXTC on October 7, 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.