Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 9, 2026
YMAT, October 9: an after-hours run to $3.69
YMAT barely moved in the regular session, then ran to $3.69 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.39, on 3K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.35.
The close
It closed at $1.29, 7% under its high. After the close it ran to $3.69 by 5:41 p.m.
What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened up 3.8% at $1.35 and traded at $1.29 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 186.0% from $1.29 to $3.69 at 5:41 p.m. after the close, on 19.17 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:18 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.39 |
| 7:18 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.39 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.35, up 3.8% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.29, 7.2% below the high |
| 4:05 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.30 |
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
- $1.30
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.35
- Gap at the open
- +3.8%
- Pre-market high
- $1.39 at 7:18 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.39 at 7:18 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.27
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.29
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −0.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.69 at 5:41 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4,090
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 19.17 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 19.9×
- Float
- not available
- Shares outstanding
- not available
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2,754 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 344 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 19.17 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days YMAT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, the latest on October 26, 2026.
- The next session, October 12, 2026, it was up 121.9% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners, after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 YMAT 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.
Trade this day
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