Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 15, 2026
SPRC, October 15: news, seven halts, and $5.34
SPRC opened up 14% after news, ran to $5.29 through seven halts, then fell below its open by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 7:06 a.m. Before the bell it reached $5.34, on 8.9M shares.
The open
It opened up 14%, at $4.20. It ran to $5.29 by 9:49 a.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it seven times, from 9:44 a.m. to 2:43 p.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 1:31 p.m.: 20% below the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $1.99, 63% under its high.
What to take from it: The whole move was given back: it finished below the price it opened at.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 14.1% to $4.20 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $5.29 in 19 minutes through a halt, then gave back 303% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.99, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:06 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): SciSparc Announces Transformation into Agentic AI-Powered Technologies, Including Cybersecurity and Finance Technologies |
| 7:07 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.68 |
| 7:14 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 555,738 shares |
| 7:38 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.34 |
| 7:38 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.34 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.20, up 14.1% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.99, 62.8% 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
- $3.68
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.20
- Gap at the open
- +14.1%
- Pre-market high
- $5.34 at 7:38 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.34 at 7:38 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.63
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.99
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −46.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.04 at 5:53 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 14.81 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 272,459
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 555,738 shares, from filings as of October 15, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 580,973
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 minute after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 7:06 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 8.91 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (59%), 3.17 million in the first 30 minutes (21%), and 3.00 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (20%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 555,738 shares: past it once at 7:14 a.m., twice at 7:18 a.m., three times at 7:23 a.m.
- Other days SPRC met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 26, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, 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 (7)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:44 a.m. | 9:49 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 15.1% | $5.02, down 3.1% | down 7.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:31 p.m. | 1:47 p.m. | 15 min 16 s | down 11.5% | $3.08, down 19.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:47 p.m. | 1:57 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 27.9% | $2.50, down 9.7% | down 10.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:59 p.m. | 2:04 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 19.5% | $2.20, down 1.3% | down 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:05 p.m. | 2:10 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 11.2% | $1.98, unchanged | up 0.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:30 p.m. | 2:35 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 11.7% | $1.72, down 0.6% | down 0.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:43 p.m. | 2:48 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 13.3% | $1.90, up 1.1% | up 7.9% | 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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