Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 14, 2026
NXGL, October 14: a $6.98 wall, three halts, and $7.25
NXGL opened near its previous close, then ran to $7.25 through three halts during the session.
What happened
A run on no news
No news came out, and the float was just 394K shares. It opened at $4.05 and ran to $6.30 by 3:04 p.m.
It was halted at 3:05:03. During the halt, a 48K-share ask wall showed up at $6.98. Another sat at $6.50.
Stop It's 3:10. NXGL was halted at $6.30 and is about to reopen. An ask wall that peaked at 48,000 shares sits at $6.98, and another is at $6.50. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:07 p.m. and stop at 3:10 p.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at 3:10:03 at $5.98, 5% lower.
The $6.50 wall
The $6.50 wall was pulled at 3:20:38, after only 1,061 shares traded there.
Stop It's 3:21. NXGL is at $6.74. An ask wall that peaked at 48,000 shares sits at $6.98, and the stock has just run from $5.70 at 3:14. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:18 p.m. and stop at 3:21 p.m. ET for your call.
Price touched $6.98 that minute. At 3:21:14 the $6.98 wall was pulled. The stock ran on to $7.25 at 3:26, the high.
The fade
Two more halts followed. The last trade before the bell was $5.35, 26% below the high. After hours it fell to $4.31.
What to take from it: Here the $6.98 wall was pulled the moment price reached it.
Replay NXGL's day
It starts at 3:08 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 3:11 p.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
Intraday run. It opened up 0.0% at $4.05, then ran from the open to the high of $7.25 in 356 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:52 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.15 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.05, up 0.0% from the previous close | |
| 10:33 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.05 | |
| 3:20 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 394,092 shares | |
| 3:26 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $7.25 | |
| 3:47 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.35, 26.2% 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
- $4.05
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.05
- Gap at the open
- +0.0%
- Pre-market high
- $4.15 at 7:52 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.25 at 3:26 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.78
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.35
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +32.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.34 at 4:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.14 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 420,460
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 61.5×
- Float
- 394,092 shares, from filings as of October 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 487,383
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1,555 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 6,385 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 1.55 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 394,092 shares: past it once at 3:20 p.m., twice at 3:28 p.m., three times at 4:00 p.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day NXGL met the small-cap rule.
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 (3)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:05 p.m. | 3:10 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 17.1% | $5.98, down 5.1% | down 1.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 3:35 p.m. | 3:45 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 11.5% | $5.80, down 3.8% | down 7.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 3:47 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | 12 min 29 s | down 11.3% | $5.46, up 2.1% | up 5.3% | 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 NXGL on October 14, 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.