Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 16, 2026
RPGL, October 16: one halt and $16.50
RPGL opened near its previous close, ran to $16.50 through one halt, 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 $13.91, on 4K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $13.41. It ran to $16.50 by 9:44 a.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 9:38 a.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 9:38 a.m.: 5% above the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $6.89, 58% 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 0.6% at $13.41, then ran from the open to the high of $16.50 in 14 minutes through a halt, and gave it all back: it traded at $6.89 at 4:00 p.m., below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:12 a.m. | Pre-market high, $13.91 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $13.41, up 0.6% from the previous close |
| 9:43 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $13.33 |
| 9:44 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $16.50 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $6.89, 58.2% 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
- $13.33
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $13.41
- Gap at the open
- +0.6%
- Pre-market high
- $13.91 at 4:12 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $16.50 at 9:44 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.13
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $6.89
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −48.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $12.00 at 4:15 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 119,649
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 436,921
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 12.1×
- Float
- 1.01 million shares, from filings as of October 16, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.01 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3,842 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 15,521 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 537,207 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (97%).
- Other days RPGL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, the latest on October 19, 2026.
- The next session, October 19, 2026, it was up 16.1% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
On the day's lists: the after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the after-hours movers: 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:38 a.m. | 9:43 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 10.8% | $15.19, up 5.4% | down 10.4% | 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.
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