Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 16, 2026
DTSS, September 16: a 7:56 spike to $1.08 that was gone by 8:08
DTSS opened near its previous close, then ran to $0.798 during the session.
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
The early run
DTSS barely traded the day before and closed at $0.6593. In the 7:55 minute, 238K shares traded and it ran to $0.85.
Stop It's 7:56 a.m. DTSS is at $0.85. It was $0.69 seven minutes ago, and 237,604 shares traded in the last minute. The previous close was $0.6593. Would you buy here?
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That minute, 995K shares traded and it hit $1.08, 64% above the prior close.
After $1.08
A 38K-share sell order hit at 7:57:50, and by 7:59 it was $0.84.
Stop It's 8:00 a.m. DTSS is at $0.84. Four minutes ago it was $1.08. Would you buy the dip here?
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The 8:01 minute traded 626K shares and fell under $0.60. The low came at 8:08: $0.5265, 51% below the high.
Late news, weak close
Here the news came after the move. The 9:28 headline on AI elderly care robots arrived after the spike was over. The stock slid to $0.5313 by 9:53 and bounced to $0.798 at midday. It closed at $0.65, 40% under the high.
What to take from it: On DTSS, the spike came before the news and was gone before the bell.
Replay DTSS's day
It starts at 7:42 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 7:45 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 1.8% at $0.6472, then ran from the open to the high of $0.798 in 160 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:55 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.6593 | |
| 7:56 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.08 | |
| 7:56 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.08 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.6472, down 1.8% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.6493, 39.9% below the high | |
| 4:39 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 8.19 million shares |
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
- $0.6593
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.6472
- Gap at the open
- −1.8%
- Pre-market high
- $1.08 at 7:56 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.08 at 7:56 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.5265
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.6493
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −1.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.03 at 5:13 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 7.72 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 8.73 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 8.19 million shares, from filings as of September 16, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 14.42 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 5.71 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (35%), 404,513 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 10.33 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (63%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 8.19 million shares: past it once at 4:39 p.m., twice at 7:47 p.m.
- Other days DTSS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 17, 2026.
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 DTSS 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 DTSS on September 16, 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.