Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on November 3, 2026
DTST, November 3: five halts and $4.41
DTST opened near its previous close, ran to $4.41 through five halts, 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 $3.25, on 420 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.02. It ran to $4.41 by 10:15 a.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it five times, from 9:56 a.m. to 11:29 a.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 10:17 a.m.: 24% below the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $2.84, 36% 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 up 0.0% at $3.02, then ran from the open to the high of $4.41 in 45 minutes through two halts, and gave it all back: it traded at $2.84 at 4:00 p.m., below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:13 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.25 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.02, up 0.0% from the previous close |
| 9:55 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.02 |
| 10:15 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.41 |
| 11:03 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.34 million shares |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.84, 35.6% 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
- $3.02
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.02
- Gap at the open
- +0.0%
- Pre-market high
- $3.25 at 8:13 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.41 at 10:15 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.39
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.84
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −6.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.10 at 5:11 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.65 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 23,427
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 2.34 million shares, from filings as of November 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.34 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 420 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 68,565 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 2.61 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (97%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.34 million shares: past it once at 11:03 a.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day DTST met the small-cap rule.
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 (5)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:56 a.m. | 10:01 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 13.8% | $3.69, down 2.9% | up 5.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:10 a.m. | 10:15 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 12.1% | $4.19, down 3.9% | down 12.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:17 a.m. | 10:41 a.m. | 24 min 24 s | down 15.6% | $2.81, down 23.6% | up 14.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:58 a.m. | 11:03 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.2% | $2.61, down 3.0% | up 8.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 11:29 a.m. | 11:34 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 14.9% | $2.40, up 0.4% | up 6.7% | 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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