Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 7, 2026
SKK, October 7: two halts and $6.50
SKK opened near its previous close, then ran to $6.50 through two halts during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $4.57, on 608 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $4.68. It ran to $6.50 by 10:28 a.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it two times, from 10:18 a.m. to 10:29 a.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 10:18 a.m.: 9% above the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $4.80, 26% 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 2.9% at $4.68, then ran from the open to the high of $6.50 in 58 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:12 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.57 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.68, up 2.9% from the previous close |
| 10:17 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.55 |
| 10:28 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.50 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.80, 26.2% 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
- $4.55
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.68
- Gap at the open
- +2.9%
- Pre-market high
- $4.57 at 9:12 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.50 at 10:28 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.55
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.80
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +5.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.08 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 246,144
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 8,802
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 16.1×
- Float
- 2.88 million shares, from filings as of October 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.96 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 608 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,961 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 252,377 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Other days SKK met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 12, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:18 a.m. | 10:28 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 12.2% | $6.30, up 8.6% | down 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:29 a.m. | 10:39 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 2.2% | $5.30, down 6.5% | down 11.1% | 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.
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