Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 21, 2026
LGHL, September 21: a run to $11.56
LGHL opened near its previous close, then ran to $9.55 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $11.56, on 1.3M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $8.08. It ran to $9.55 by 10:41 a.m.
The close
It closed at $8.46, 27% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 2.3% at $8.08, then ran from the open to the high of $9.55 in 71 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:59 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $7.90 |
| 5:01 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 25,786 shares |
| 5:19 a.m. | Pre-market high, $11.56 |
| 5:19 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $11.56 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $8.08, up 2.3% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $8.46, 26.8% 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
- $7.90
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $8.08
- Gap at the open
- +2.3%
- Pre-market high
- $11.56 at 5:19 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $11.56 at 5:19 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.02
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $8.46
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +7.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $9.00 at 4:35 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.55 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 18,407
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 12.3×
- Float
- 25,786 shares, from filings as of September 21, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 25,925
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.32 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (84%), 62,108 in the first 30 minutes (4%), and 184,826 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (12%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 25,786 shares: past it once at 5:01 a.m., twice at 5:02 a.m., three times at 5:02 a.m.
- Other days LGHL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on October 13, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 LGHL 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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