Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 2, 2026
CYCU, October 2: a headline, a $3.98 wall, and $4.95
CYCU opened up 11% after news, ran to $4.95, then gave back most of the run by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
Headline, then a dip
The 8:30 headline said Cycurion met Nasdaq's price rule again. It hit $3.39 pre-market, then slid to a $2.65 low at 9:42.
The $3.98 wall
It cleared $3.39 at 10:30. A few minutes later, at 10:33:29, about 50K shares appeared for sale at $3.98.
Stop It's 10:34. CYCU is at $3.83. About 50,000 shares are offered at $3.98, just below $4.00. It is up from $2.87 at 10:17. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:31 a.m. and stop at 10:34 a.m. ET for your call.
That wall was pulled at 10:34:49. A 28K-share buy order ran through right after, and it hit $4.92 by 10:38.
A new ask wall appeared at $5.00. It dipped to $3.97, then reached $4.94 at 10:46.
Capped under $5
Stop It's 10:48. CYCU is at $4.67, just under the $4.94 high from two minutes ago. An ask wall has been sitting at $5.00 since 10:38. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:45 a.m. and stop at 10:48 a.m. ET for your call.
It topped at $4.95, still under the $5.00 wall.
It faded all afternoon and closed at $3.81, 23% below the high.
What to take from it: The $3.98 wall vanished before the run; the top came just under the $5.00 wall.
Replay CYCU's day
It starts at 10:20 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:23 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
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 10.8% to $2.98 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $4.95 in 78 minutes, then gave back 58% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $3.81, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Cycurion Regains Compliance with Nasdaq Bid Price Requirement | |
| 8:50 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.69 | |
| 9:04 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.39 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.98, up 10.8% from the previous close | |
| 10:32 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 3.16 million shares | |
| 10:48 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.95 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.81, 23.0% 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
- $2.69
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.98
- Gap at the open
- +10.8%
- Pre-market high
- $3.39 at 9:04 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.95 at 10:48 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.65
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.81
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +41.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.82 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 16.34 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 286,296
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 167.8×
- Float
- 3.16 million shares, from filings as of October 2, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.23 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 20 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 8:30 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.81 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (11%), 388,391 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 14.43 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (87%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 3.16 million shares: past it once at 10:32 a.m., twice at 10:41 a.m., three times at 10:56 a.m.
- Other days CYCU met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 14, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. 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 CYCU 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.
Trade this day
Replay CYCU on October 2, 2026 in Hindsight Markets: the real tape, the order book and the halts, on a clock you control, and see where your orders would have filled.