Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 15, 2026
BNGO, September 15: a slow grind, a spike to $2.23, and a lower high
BNGO opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.23 during the session.
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
A slow start
The news came the day before: a 9:00 a.m. release on September 14 about three peer-reviewed studies. BNGO opened at $1.31 on the 15th. It reached $1.39 by 9:32. Then it crept toward $1.55 on thin volume.
Stop It's 10:19. BNGO is at $1.56. It has crept up from $1.31 at the open and is trading around $1.55 on thin volume. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:16 a.m. and stop at 10:19 a.m. ET for your call.
That minute it broke. A 37K-share buy swept from $1.56 to $1.58, and the minute hit $1.62. By 10:31 it touched $2.00.
Top at $2.23
The first push did not hold. It slid to $1.82 by 10:36. The second push went higher. It topped at $2.23 in the 10:41 minute.
It did not stay. By 10:49 it had fallen to $1.58, 29% off the high.
The wall at $1.90
The bounce had a ceiling in the book. An ask wall at $1.90 was first seen at 11:02:28. The stock climbed back into the $1.70s and $1.80s below it.
Stop It's 11:30. BNGO is at $1.82. An ask wall sits at $1.90, just above. The high so far was $2.23. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:27 a.m. and stop at 11:30 a.m. ET for your call.
It pushed to $1.88 that minute, a lower high. The wall peaked at 82K shares at 11:30:14 and held. It faded the rest of the day and closed at $1.55, 30% below the high.
What to take from it: The second push stalled under a $1.90 wall, well below the $2.23 top.
Replay BNGO's day
It starts at 10:13 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:16 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 down 1.5% at $1.31, then ran from the open to the high of $2.23 in 71 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.38 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.31, down 1.5% from the previous close | |
| 10:19 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.33 | |
| 10:41 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.23 | |
| 12:31 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 11.52 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.55, 30.5% 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
- $1.33
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.31
- Gap at the open
- −1.5%
- Pre-market high
- $1.38 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.23 at 10:41 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.19
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.55
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +16.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.90 at 5:24 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 12.63 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 372,899
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 220.2×
- Float
- 11.52 million shares, from filings as of September 15, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 11.78 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 647 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 67,969 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 12.94 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 11.52 million shares: past it once at 12:31 p.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day BNGO 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 BNGO 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 BNGO on September 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.