Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 8, 2026
JZ, October 8: a halt, a $0.68 bid wall, and $1.17
JZ opened up 24%, ran to $1.17 through one halt, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
Halt and the $0.68 bid
JZ opened at $0.58 and hit $0.91 by 9:49. A pause at 9:50:59 froze it near $0.66.
A 111K-share bid built at $0.68 during the halt. It reopened at 9:55:59 at $0.69, and sellers ate the bid in seven seconds.
The wall at $1.00
A 10:37 buyback headline lifted it to $0.85 two minutes later. An ask wall sat at $1.00 from 10:43.
Stop It's 11:39. JZ is at $0.98. A wall of offers has been sitting at exactly $1.00 since 10:43. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:36 a.m. and stop at 11:39 a.m. ET for your call.
Buyers took the wall at 11:39:11. About 92K shares traded at $1.00, and that minute hit $1.05.
The 12:09 pullback
Stop It's 12:12. JZ is at $1.03, after a $1.10 high at 12:05 and a pullback to $0.94 at 12:09. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:09 p.m. and stop at 12:12 p.m. ET for your call.
Two big buy orders lifted it to $1.17, the day's high, in the 12:14 minute. A 2:09 p.m. push stopped at $0.999, under a new $1.00 wall. It closed at $0.84.
What to take from it: After the $1.17 top, the next push stopped lower, under a wall at $1.00.
Replay JZ's day
It starts at 9:18 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:21 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, gave some back. It gapped up 23.7% to $0.5812 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.17 in 164 minutes through a halt, then gave back 56% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $0.8408, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:10 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.4698 | |
| 9:13 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.6447 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.5812, up 23.7% from the previous close | |
| 9:47 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 14.38 million shares | |
| 12:14 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.17 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.8408, 28.1% 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
- $0.4698
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.5812
- Gap at the open
- +23.7%
- Pre-market high
- $0.6447 at 9:13 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.17 at 12:14 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.451
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.8408
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +79.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $0.94 at 4:17 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 76.39 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.96 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 75.8×
- Float
- 14.38 million shares, from filings as of October 8, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 14.41 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2.66 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (3%), 17.07 million in the first 30 minutes (22%), and 59.62 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (75%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 14.38 million shares: past it once at 9:47 a.m., twice at 10:45 a.m., three times at 11:39 a.m.
- Other days JZ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on October 14, 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:50 a.m. | 9:55 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 14.8% | $0.6859, up 3.9% | down 0.5% | 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 JZ on October 8, 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.