Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 29, 2026
DKI, October 29: a gap that held
DKI opened up 12% and held near that level into the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.56, on 2.7M shares.
The open
It opened up 12%, at $2.07.
The close
It closed at $2.16, 16% under its high.
What to take from it: The gap was the move. After the open it went sideways.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and hold. It gapped up 11.9% to $2.07 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $2.16 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:34 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.85 |
| 8:42 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.56 |
| 8:42 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.56 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.07, up 11.9% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.16, 15.6% 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
- $1.85
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.07
- Gap at the open
- +11.9%
- Pre-market high
- $2.56 at 8:42 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.56 at 8:42 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.83
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.16
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +16.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.22 at 4:10 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.26 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 104,808
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 5.7×
- Float
- not available
- Shares outstanding
- not available
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2.73 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (81%), 196,272 in the first 30 minutes (6%), and 441,901 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (13%).
- Other days DKI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 7, the latest on November 4, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 DKI 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.
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