Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 12, 2026
SMTK, October 12: a run to $1.42
SMTK opened near its previous close, ran to $1.42, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.23, on 1K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.16. It ran to $1.42 by 10:15 a.m.
The close
It closed at $1.04, 27% under its high.
What to take from it: The run did not hold: it finished below where it opened.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run and fade. It opened up 0.9% at $1.16, then ran from the open to the high of $1.42 in 45 minutes, and gave it all back: it traded at $1.04 at 4:00 p.m., below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:04 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.23 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.16, up 0.9% from the previous close |
| 10:15 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.15 |
| 10:15 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.42 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.04, 26.8% below the high |
| 4:05 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 949,549 shares |
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
- $1.15
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.16
- Gap at the open
- +0.9%
- Pre-market high
- $1.23 at 4:04 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.42 at 10:15 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.04
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.04
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −9.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.63 at 4:06 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 240,347
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.09 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 24.5×
- Float
- 949,549 shares, from filings as of October 12, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.04 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1,262 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 19,627 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 4.31 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 949,549 shares: past it once at 4:05 p.m., twice at 4:07 p.m., three times at 4:09 p.m.
- Other days SMTK met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 26, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for SMTK 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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