Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 14, 2026
SKYQ, September 14: a gap that faded
SKYQ opened up 12%, then faded 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 $3.72, on 773K shares.
The open
It opened up 12%, at $3.48.
The close
It closed at $3.14, 16% under its high.
What to take from it: A big gap is not a trend. This one traded below its open by the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and fade. It gapped up 11.9% to $3.48 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $3.14.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:18 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.72 |
| 9:18 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.72 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.48, up 11.9% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.14, 15.6% 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
- $3.11
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.48
- Gap at the open
- +11.9%
- Pre-market high
- $3.72 at 9:18 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.72 at 9:18 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.10
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.14
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +1.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.24 at 5:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.97 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 69,966
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.9×
- Float
- 8.38 million shares, from filings as of September 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.83 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 773,240 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (38%), 364,079 in the first 30 minutes (18%), and 899,438 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (44%).
- Other days SKYQ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 24, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for SKYQ 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.
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