Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 28, 2026
EGG, September 28: three halts, $6.22, and a $730 fill
EGG opened near its previous close, then ran to $6.22 through three halts during the session.
What happened
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A quiet start
There was no news, and almost nothing traded early. It opened at $2.78 after a $2.68 close. At 10:06 it started moving and hit $3.51 two minutes later on over 1,000 shares a minute. Then it slipped back.
Stop It's 10:15. EGG is at $3.19 after opening the day at $2.78. It touched $3.51 at 10:08 on over 1,000 shares a minute. There is no news. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:12 a.m. and stop at 10:15 a.m. ET for your call.
Three halts and the top
The run kept going and set off three volatility halts. Halt #1 at 10:25:39 froze it at $4.32. Halt #2 at 10:35:59 came after a run to $5.18.
That minute traded 227K shares. It hit $6.22, the high of the day, then dropped to $4.68. Halt #3 at 10:43:58 stopped it at $4.20.
Lower highs, then a fade
The top never came back. It sank to $3.19 by 10:53 and bounced to $5.04 at 12:13. Then it faded. It closed at $4.22, 32% below the high.
What to take from it: On this day the reopens were thin: a 5,000-share buy cost $730 and $1,371 more than the screen showed.
Replay EGG's day
It starts at 10:17 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:20 a.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 3.7% at $2.78, then ran from the open to the high of $6.22 in 71 minutes through two halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.86 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.78, up 3.7% from the previous close | |
| 10:08 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.68 | |
| 10:41 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.22 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.22, 32.2% 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
- $2.68
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.78
- Gap at the open
- +3.7%
- Pre-market high
- $2.86 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.22 at 10:41 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.78
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.22
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +57.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.14 at 7:56 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.27 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 120,420
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 8.10 million shares, from filings as of September 28, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 12.10 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 222 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 13 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 2.39 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days EGG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 29, 2026.
- The next session, September 29, 2026, it was up 11.8% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners, after-hours movers. 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 (3)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:25 a.m. | 10:35 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 28.6% | $4.19, down 3.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 10:35 a.m. | 10:40 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 19.7% | $5.37, up 3.9% | down 21.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:43 a.m. | 10:48 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 18.8% | $4.20, unchanged | down 10.7% | 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
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