Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 30, 2026
CHGA, September 30: a run to $3.55
CHGA opened near its previous close, then ran to $3.55 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.37, on 188K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.03. It ran to $3.55 by 12:42 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.39, 33% 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 3.6% at $2.03, then ran from the open to the high of $3.55 in 192 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:29 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.96 |
| 4:29 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.37 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.03, up 3.6% from the previous close |
| 12:21 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 930,000 shares |
| 12:42 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.55 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.39, 32.7% 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
- $1.96
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.03
- Gap at the open
- +3.6%
- Pre-market high
- $2.37 at 4:29 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.55 at 12:42 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.89
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.39
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +21.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.70 at 5:33 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 11.98 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 338,069
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 440.9×
- Float
- 930,000 shares, from filings as of September 30, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.12 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 188,031 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 6,460 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 12.13 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 930,000 shares: past it once at 12:21 p.m., twice at 12:26 p.m., three times at 12:31 p.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day CHGA 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for CHGA 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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