Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 8, 2026
CRE, October 8: a run to $3.80
CRE opened near its previous close, then ran to $3.80 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.69, on 376 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.73. It ran to $3.80 by 12:47 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.95, 22% 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 3.0% at $2.73, then ran from the open to the high of $3.80 in 197 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:29 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.69 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.73, up 3.0% from the previous close |
| 12:30 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.65 |
| 12:47 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.80 |
| 2:04 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.10 million shares |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.95, 22.4% 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
- $2.65
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.73
- Gap at the open
- +3.0%
- Pre-market high
- $2.69 at 9:29 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.80 at 12:47 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.60
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.95
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +11.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.01 at 4:38 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.16 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 24,854
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 51.1×
- Float
- 1.10 million shares, from filings as of October 8, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.01 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 376 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 184 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 1.18 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.10 million shares: past it once at 2:04 p.m.
- Other days CRE met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on November 3, 2026.
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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for CRE 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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