Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 15, 2026
GP, October 15: a 4:00 a.m. spike to $1.35, the $0.35 wall, and $0.1939
GP opened up 22%, ran to $0.369, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
A $1.35 spike at 4:00 a.m.
GP closed the day before at $0.273. The first pre-market minute ran from $0.3916 to $1.35, the high of the day, then drifted lower.
A headline, then a drop
The stock slid to about $0.40 by 9:25. At 9:26 came the headline: “GreenPower Announces Effective Date of Share Consolidation”. The next minute traded 830K shares and fell to $0.28.
The wall at $0.35
It opened at $0.333. Shares were offered at $0.35 from 9:29:58, peaking near 107K. A bid wall at $0.33 sat below.
Stop It's 9:34. GP is at $0.3461. A large ask wall sits at $0.35 and a large bid sits at $0.33. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:31 a.m. and stop at 9:34 a.m. ET for your call.
At 9:34:15 buyers ate the wall. About 115K shares traded at $0.35 in under a second. The $0.33 bid vanished too. The minute topped out at $0.369, and soon it was back near $0.32.
The slide to $0.1939
The stock sank through the morning. At 10:36 it hit $0.1939, the low of the day, 86% below the high. It then recovered to close the regular session at $0.3483.
What to take from it: A big wall can vanish in under a second, and the fill costs more than the screen.
Replay GP's day
It starts at 10:33 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:36 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 22.0% to $0.333 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $0.369 in 4 minutes, then gave back 58% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $0.3483, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.273 | |
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.35 | |
| 4:00 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.35 | |
| 4:28 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 10.48 million shares | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.333, up 22.0% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.3483, 74.2% 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
- $0.273
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.333
- Gap at the open
- +22.0%
- Pre-market high
- $1.35 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.35 at 4:00 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.1939
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.3483
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +27.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $0.45 at 5:02 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 42.01 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.39 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 435.7×
- Float
- 10.48 million shares, from filings as of October 15, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.50 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 32.06 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (72%), 2.90 million in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 9.44 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (21%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 10.48 million shares: past it once at 4:28 a.m., twice at 6:02 a.m., three times at 9:28 a.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day GP met the small-cap rule.
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 GP 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
Replay GP on October 15, 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.