Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 3, 2026
DSS, September 3: the $0.99 bid, four halts, and $1.18
DSS opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.18 through four halts during the session.
What happened
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A fast run to $0.91
DSS ran on almost no pre-market volume. It opened at $0.60 and hit $0.91 by 9:44.
Stop It's 9:45. DSS is at $0.91, up 65% from the $0.55 close, and it has gone from $0.66 to here in eight minutes. $1.00 is nine cents above. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:42 a.m. and stop at 9:45 a.m. ET for your call.
The $0.99 bid vanished
Here a big bid did not hold. A 210K-share bid at $0.99 showed up just before halt #1 at 9:45:48. After the reopen, 44K shares hit it in under a second and it was gone. By 10:01 DSS was at $0.7865, then bounced to $0.99.
Stop It's 10:05. DSS is at $0.97, up from $0.7865 four minutes ago, and just under the $0.99 it reached in the 10:04 minute. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:02 a.m. and stop at 10:05 a.m. ET for your call.
Two halts, two directions
It ran to $1.07 and was halted at 10:05:25. It reopened at 10:10:25 at $1.15 and hit $1.18, the high.
Halt #4 at 10:10:48 froze it at $1.00. It reopened lower, at $0.9389.
It closed at $0.83, 30% below the high.
What to take from it: A huge bid can vanish in a second, and a halt can reopen either way.
Replay DSS's day
It starts at 9:31 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:34 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
Intraday run. It opened up 8.7% at $0.60, then ran from the open to the high of $1.18 in 40 minutes through 3 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:29 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.6572 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.60, up 8.7% from the previous close | |
| 9:38 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.552 | |
| 9:57 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 3.83 million shares | |
| 10:10 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.18 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.8314, 29.5% 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
- $0.552
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.60
- Gap at the open
- +8.7%
- Pre-market high
- $0.6572 at 9:29 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.18 at 10:10 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.5711
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.8314
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +50.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $0.95 at 4:57 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 36.85 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.85 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 3.83 million shares, from filings as of September 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.04 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 45,026 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 4.87 million in the first 30 minutes (12%), and 34.79 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (88%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 3.83 million shares: past it once at 9:57 a.m., twice at 10:04 a.m., three times at 10:16 a.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day DSS 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 (4)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:45 a.m. | 9:50 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 38.3% | $1.10, up 11.1% | down 13.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:51 a.m. | 9:56 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 4.0% | $0.9499, unchanged | down 10.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:05 a.m. | 10:10 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 25.9% | $1.15, up 7.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 10:10 a.m. | 10:15 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 6.5% | $0.9999, unchanged | up 1.0% | 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
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