Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 24, 2026
FOFO, September 24: a 3:02 p.m. halt and a $3.31 after-hours spike
FOFO opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.90 through one halt during the session.
What happened
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Quiet, then a halt
FOFO did almost nothing until mid-afternoon. It opened at $1.79 and crept to $2.20 by 3:01 p.m. on thin volume.
Then it jumped to $2.62 and was halted at 3:02:46. It reopened at 3:07:46 at the same price.
Walls that left
After the reopen, big sell orders stacked up above the price.
Stop It's 3:12. FOFO is at $2.69. A wall of about 24,800 shares has sat at $3.05 since 3:08, and a new wall just appeared at $2.94. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:09 p.m. and stop at 3:12 p.m. ET for your call.
It hit $2.90 that minute. Both walls were pulled within seconds, at 3:12:43 and 3:12:46.
Stop It's 3:24. FOFO is at $2.62. The $3.02 wall showed 26,596 shares at 3:22:25, and the high so far is $2.90. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:21 p.m. and stop at 3:24 p.m. ET for your call.
It topped at $2.80. The $3.02 wall was pulled at 3:25:00 without trading. By 3:33 the stock was at $2.22.
Close and after hours
It closed near $2.43. After the bell it ran again, and the day's high of $3.31 came at 4:11 p.m.
What to take from it: On FOFO, the walls above the price were pulled, not bought through, and the price fell back.
Replay FOFO's day
It starts at 3:44 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 3:47 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 up 1.7% at $1.79, then ran from the open to the high of $2.90 in 342 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.82 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.79, up 1.7% from the previous close | |
| 2:00 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.76 | |
| 3:12 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.90 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.43, 16.2% below the high | |
| 4:03 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.68 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
- $1.76
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.79
- Gap at the open
- +1.7%
- Pre-market high
- $1.82 at 7:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.90 at 3:12 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.79
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.43
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +38.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.31 at 4:11 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.33 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.58 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 1.68 million shares, from filings as of September 24, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.57 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 220 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 38 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 3.91 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.68 million shares: past it once at 4:03 p.m., twice at 4:28 p.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day FOFO met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:02 p.m. | 3:07 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 21.9% | $2.62, unchanged | up 1.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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 FOFO on September 24, 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.