Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on November 3, 2026
CHSN, November 3: a quiet morning, a 1 p.m. run, and $4.15
CHSN opened near its previous close, then ran to $4.15 through two halts during the session.
What happened
Hours of nothing, then a break
No news came out, and the stock sat near $1.10 for most of the morning. It opened at $1.07 and was at $1.22 by 11:31. At 11:58 it woke up, and by 12:00 it traded as high as $1.38 on 73K shares in one minute. By 1:49 it hit $2.27.
Two halts, no calm
A volatility halt began at 2:01:16 with the last trade at $2.53. It reopened at 2:11:16 and the stock opened at $2.78, then touched $3.00 and traded as low as $2.22 that same minute. That reopen minute saw 1.3M shares, the most of any minute that day.
It slid to $1.77 at 2:18, then climbed again. The second halt began at 2:41:28 at $2.85. It reopened at 2:46:28 at $2.66 and fell to $2.22 within the minute.
The top, then the fade
A run through the 3 p.m. hour brought $4.15, the high of the regular session, at 3:15. Four minutes later it traded as low as $3.20. At 3:39 it dropped to $2.84 and closed the regular session at $3.37, 19% under the high.
By the close, 33M shares had traded, about four and a half times the 7.3M float. After hours it spiked to $4.21 at 5:04 p.m., then dropped to $2.93 the next minute.
What to take from it: A stock can sit still for hours, so a quiet morning said nothing about what CHSN would do after 11:58.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 8.0% at $1.07, then ran from the open to the high of $4.15 in 345 minutes through two halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:18 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.07 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.07, up 8.0% from the previous close |
| 10:22 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.9905 |
| 1:49 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 7.32 million shares |
| 3:15 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.15 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.37, 18.8% 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
- $0.9905
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.07
- Gap at the open
- +8.0%
- Pre-market high
- $1.07 at 8:18 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.15 at 3:15 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.9999
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.37
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +240.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.21 at 5:04 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 33.40 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 8.44 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 29.7×
- Float
- 7.32 million shares, from filings as of November 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 7.32 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 8,437 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 3,260 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 41.83 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 7.32 million shares: past it once at 1:49 p.m., twice at 2:23 p.m., three times at 2:59 p.m.
- Other days CHSN met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on October 28, 2026.
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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:01 p.m. | 2:11 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 22.8% | $2.78, up 9.9% | down 29.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:41 p.m. | 2:46 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 26.1% | $2.66, down 6.7% | up 4.9% | 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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