Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 18, 2026
OLOX, September 18: the $0.94 wall, the $1.20 wall, and $1.29
OLOX opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.29 during the session.
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
A quiet stock with a wall
OLOX sat still for most of the day. It opened at $0.80, under the $0.84 previous close, and held near $0.77 to $0.80 for hours.
In the afternoon it crept up. An offer at $0.9399 grew to 37K shares by 3:08.
Stop It's 3:13 p.m. OLOX is at $0.92. About 37,000 shares have been offered at $0.9399, just above, since 3:01. The stock has been pressing under that level for several minutes. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:10 p.m. and stop at 3:13 p.m. ET for your call.
Here's what happened. At 3:14:01 all 37K shares traded at $0.9399 in under a second.
The $1.20 wall
It went through $1.00 at 3:18. An offer at $1.20 grew to 36K shares, with a 32K-share bid at $1.10 below.
Stop It's 3:36 p.m. OLOX is at $1.16. About 36,000 shares are offered at $1.20, and about 32,000 shares are bid at $1.10 below. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:33 p.m. and stop at 3:36 p.m. ET for your call.
Here's what happened. Over about 14 seconds, 34K shares traded at $1.20, and the wall was gone at 3:36:53.
The top and the drop
The top came fast. It hit $1.29 at 3:41. At 3:44:07 a 48K-share sell hit the book, and the $1.10 bid was pulled. It fell to $0.92 that minute. It closed at $1.04.
What to take from it: Here both big offers were eaten by buyers, and the drop after the top took three minutes.
Replay OLOX's day
It starts at 3:49 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 3:52 p.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 4.6% at $0.8033, then ran from the open to the high of $1.29 in 371 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.8412 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.8033, down 4.6% from the previous close | |
| 3:18 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.8423 | |
| 3:39 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.42 million shares | |
| 3:41 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.29 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.04, 19.4% 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
- $0.8423
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.8033
- Gap at the open
- −4.6%
- Pre-market high
- $0.8412 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.29 at 3:41 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.7701
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.04
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +23.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.68 at 4:48 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.11 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 10.85 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 9.5×
- Float
- 1.42 million shares, from filings as of September 18, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.66 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 14,680 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 32,590 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 13.91 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.42 million shares: past it once at 3:39 p.m., twice at 3:50 p.m., three times at 4:03 p.m.
- Other days OLOX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 7, the latest on October 21, 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 OLOX 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 OLOX on September 18, 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.