Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 23, 2026
XXII, September 23: a run to $2.60
XXII opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.60 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.89, on 2K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.81. It ran to $2.60 by 3:53 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.34, 10% 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 1.1% at $1.81, then ran from the open to the high of $2.60 in 383 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:07 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.89 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.81, up 1.1% from the previous close |
| 3:50 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.79 |
| 3:53 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.60 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 713,986 shares |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.34, 10.0% 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
- $1.79
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.81
- Gap at the open
- +1.1%
- Pre-market high
- $1.89 at 4:07 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.60 at 3:53 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.66
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.34
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +30.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.52 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 737,739
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 698,156
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 61.9×
- Float
- 713,986 shares, from filings as of September 23, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 713,994
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2,199 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,081 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 1.43 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 713,986 shares: past it once at 3:59 p.m., twice at 7:41 p.m.
- Other days XXII met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 16, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 XXII 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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