Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 30, 2026
QSI, September 30: a run to $1.12
QSI opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.12 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $0.9726, on 63K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $0.96. It ran to $1.12 by 10:00 a.m.
The close
It closed at $1.07, near 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 0.2% at $0.96, then ran from the open to the high of $1.12 in 30 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:46 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.9726 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.96, up 0.2% from the previous close |
| 10:00 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.12 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.07, 4.5% below the high |
| 5:24 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.9581 |
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
- $0.9581
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.96
- Gap at the open
- +0.2%
- Pre-market high
- $0.9726 at 7:46 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.12 at 10:00 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.955
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.07
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +11.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.25 at 5:47 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.54 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 989,194
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 4.9×
- Float
- 172.53 million shares, from filings as of September 30, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 218.88 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 62,736 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 860,070 in the first 30 minutes (24%), and 2.61 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (74%).
- Other days QSI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 9, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it was in play on the intraday runners: up 30% or more on $3 million or more really traded, outside the small-cap rule's price, relative volume or float, 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 QSI 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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