Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 24, 2026
SKYQ, September 24: news and $3.47
SKYQ opened up 21% after news, ran to $3.47, then fell below its open by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 7:45 a.m. Before the bell it reached $3.36, on 4.7M shares.
The open
It opened up 21%, at $3.07. It ran to $3.47 by 11:42 a.m.
The close
It closed at $2.91, 16% under its high.
What to take from it: The whole move was given back: it finished below the price it opened at.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 20.9% to $3.07 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $3.47 in 132 minutes, then gave back 140% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $2.91, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:45 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Sky Quarry Restarts Nevada's Only Crude Oil Refinery |
| 7:50 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.54 |
| 8:46 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.36 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.07, up 20.9% from the previous close |
| 11:42 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.47 |
| 12:22 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 8.38 million shares |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.91, 16.1% 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
- $2.54
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.07
- Gap at the open
- +20.9%
- Pre-market high
- $3.36 at 8:46 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.47 at 11:42 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.52
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.91
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +14.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.98 at 5:08 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 9.51 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 146,546
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 11.9×
- Float
- 8.38 million shares, from filings as of September 24, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.83 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 5 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 7:45 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4.71 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (49%), 912,191 in the first 30 minutes (9%), and 4.04 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (42%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 8.38 million shares: past it once at 12:22 p.m.
- Other days SKYQ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 14, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 SKYQ 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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