Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 17, 2026
SSM, September 17: an after-hours run to $2.56
SSM barely moved in the regular session, then ran to $2.56 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.68, on 204 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.67.
The close
It closed at $1.48, 12% under its high. After the close it ran to $2.56 by 6:29 p.m.
What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened down 1.2% at $1.67 and traded at $1.48 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 73.0% from $1.48 to $2.56 at 6:29 p.m. after the close, on 2.67 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:13 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.68 |
| 7:13 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.68 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.67, down 1.2% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.48, 11.9% below the high |
| 5:46 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.69 |
| 6:19 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.21 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
- $1.69
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.67
- Gap at the open
- −1.2%
- Pre-market high
- $1.68 at 7:13 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.68 at 7:13 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.41
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.48
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −12.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.56 at 6:29 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 29,464
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.67 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.7×
- Float
- 1.21 million shares, from filings as of September 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.42 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 204 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 3,842 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 2.69 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.21 million shares: past it once at 6:19 p.m., twice at 7:27 p.m.
- Other days SSM met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on October 2, 2026.
- The next session, September 18, 2026, it gapped up 65.1% at 9:30 a.m.
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 SSM 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
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