Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 12, 2026
DCX, October 12: a run to $3.80
DCX opened near its previous close, ran to $2.97, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.80, on 835K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.51. It ran to $2.97 by 12:13 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.24, 41% under its high.
What to take from it: The run did not hold: it finished below where it opened.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run and fade. It opened down 7.7% at $2.51, then ran from the open to the high of $2.97 in 163 minutes, and gave it all back: it traded at $2.24 at 4:00 p.m., below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:18 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.72 |
| 7:33 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.80 |
| 7:33 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.80 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.51, down 7.7% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.24, 41.1% 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
- $2.72
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.51
- Gap at the open
- −7.7%
- Pre-market high
- $3.80 at 7:33 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.80 at 7:33 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.21
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.24
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −17.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.59 at 6:25 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.01 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 899,668
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 11.5×
- Float
- 2.35 million shares, from filings as of October 12, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.35 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 835,494 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (44%), 28,551 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 1.04 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (55%).
- Other days DCX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 13, 2026.
On the day's lists: the after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the after-hours movers: 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 DCX 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
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