Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 1, 2026
RPGL, October 1: one halt and $26.37
RPGL opened up 16%, ran to $26.37 through one halt, and held most of the move into the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $25.00, on 88K shares.
The open
It opened up 16%, at $19.04. It ran to $26.37 by 3:43 p.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 9:31 a.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 9:31 a.m.: 7% above the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $25.95, near its high.
What to take from it: A gap that holds above its open can keep going: this one held most of its move to the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and go. It gapped up 16.2% to $19.04 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $26.37 in 373 minutes through a halt, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 6% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:42 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $16.39 |
| 8:51 a.m. | Pre-market high, $25.00 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $19.04, up 16.2% from the previous close |
| 3:43 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $26.37 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $25.95, 1.6% 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
- $16.39
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $19.04
- Gap at the open
- +16.2%
- Pre-market high
- $25.00 at 8:51 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $26.37 at 3:43 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $15.83
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $25.95
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +58.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $26.30 at 4:47 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 128,026
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3,368
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 1.01 million shares, from filings as of October 1, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.01 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 88,244 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (67%), 8,022 in the first 30 minutes (6%), and 35,128 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (27%).
- Other days RPGL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, the latest on October 19, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers. 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:31 a.m. | 9:36 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 7.2% | $18.00, up 7.0% | unchanged | 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.
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