Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 7, 2026
DKI, October 7: four halts, a 115,000-share wall, and $3.64
DKI opened near its previous close, then ran to $3.64 through four halts during the session.
What happened
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No news, four halts
No headline came out today. DKI opened at $1.27, crept up, and was halted at 10:24:51 at $1.95. It reopened at 10:36:38 24% higher, at $2.41.
Halt #3 hit at 10:52:39 with a 115K-share ask wall at $2.53. The wall was pulled during the halt, and it reopened lower.
The wall at $3.67
From 11:55, an ask wall at $3.67 sat just above the highs.
Stop It's 12:03. DKI is at $3.39. The high of the day so far is $3.58, and an ask wall sits at $3.67. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:00 p.m. and stop at 12:03 p.m. ET for your call.
It spiked to $3.64, three cents under the wall, then fell to $3.15 within a minute.
The $2.00 bid
An 83K-share bid at $2.00 had held the lows since 10:58.
Stop It's 1:03 p.m. DKI is at $2.06. A big bid has sat at $2.00 since 10:58 a.m. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:00 p.m. and stop at 1:03 p.m. ET for your call.
At 1:03:37 the bid was gone. It fell to $1.83 by 1:07 p.m. and closed at $1.71, 53% below the high.
What to take from it: A big bid held the lows for two hours, then vanished in one second.
Replay DKI's day
It starts at 11:15 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 11:18 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 down 6.6% at $1.27, then ran from the open to the high of $3.64 in 153 minutes through 4 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:10 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.55 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.27, down 6.6% from the previous close | |
| 10:23 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.36 | |
| 10:39 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 856,312 shares | |
| 12:03 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.64 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.71, 53.0% 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
- $1.36
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.27
- Gap at the open
- −6.6%
- Pre-market high
- $1.55 at 9:10 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.64 at 12:03 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.27
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.71
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +25.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.70 at 6:04 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 16.58 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.96 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 101.6×
- Float
- 856,312 shares, from filings as of October 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.35 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 6,384 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 31,210 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 18.50 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 856,312 shares: past it once at 10:39 a.m., twice at 10:51 a.m., three times at 10:58 a.m.
- Other days DKI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 7, the latest on November 4, 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 (4)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:24 a.m. | 10:36 a.m. | 11 min 47 s | up 22.6% | $2.41, up 23.6% | up 21.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:40 a.m. | 10:50 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 49.7% | $3.16, up 8.2% | down 19.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:52 a.m. | 10:57 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.4% | $2.42, down 4.3% | down 6.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:30 a.m. | 11:35 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 25.2% | $3.27, down 0.3% | down 2.1% | 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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