Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 13, 2026
DCX, October 13: a run to $4.14
DCX opened near its previous close, ran to $2.58, 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 $4.14, on 4.1M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.34. It ran to $2.58 by 9:47 a.m.
The close
It closed at $2.05, 50% 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 6.4% at $2.34, then ran from the open to the high of $2.58 in 17 minutes, and gave it all back: it traded at $2.05 at 4:00 p.m., below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.20 |
| 4:03 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.14 |
| 4:03 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.14 |
| 4:56 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.35 million shares |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.34, up 6.4% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.05, 50.5% 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
- $2.20
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.34
- Gap at the open
- +6.4%
- Pre-market high
- $4.14 at 4:03 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.14 at 4:03 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.56
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.05
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −6.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.55 at 5:43 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.72 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 184,010
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 18.8×
- Float
- 2.35 million shares, from filings as of October 13, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.35 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4.08 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (83%), 137,239 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 691,548 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (14%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.35 million shares: past it once at 4:56 a.m., twice at 3:56 p.m.
- Other days DCX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 12, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. 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 DCX 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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