Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on November 4, 2026
CHSN, November 4: 17 halts and $5.00
CHSN opened up 17%, ran to $5.00 through 17 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 $4.53, on 6.8M shares.
The open
It opened up 17%, at $3.93. It ran to $5.00 by 11:52 a.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it 17 times, from 9:35 a.m. to 3:12 p.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 1:33 p.m.: 15% above the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $3.34, 33% 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 16.6% to $3.93 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $5.00 in 142 minutes through 5 halts, then gave back 155% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $3.34, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:18 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.37 |
| 9:15 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.53 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.93, up 16.6% from the previous close |
| 9:33 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 7.32 million shares |
| 11:52 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.00 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.34, 33.2% 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
- $3.37
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.93
- Gap at the open
- +16.6%
- Pre-market high
- $4.53 at 9:15 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.00 at 11:52 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.91
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.34
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −0.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.38 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 23.27 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 668,860
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.8×
- Float
- 7.32 million shares, from filings as of November 4, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 7.32 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 6.80 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (28%), 2.54 million in the first 30 minutes (11%), and 14.60 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (61%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 7.32 million shares: past it once at 9:33 a.m., twice at 11:51 a.m., three times at 3:23 p.m.
- Other days CHSN met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on November 3, 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 (17)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:35 a.m. | 9:40 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 5.7% | $3.50, down 4.6% | up 1.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:44 a.m. | 9:54 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 3.3% | $4.01, up 13.0% | down 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:55 a.m. | 10:00 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 1.7% | $3.61, unchanged | up 9.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:03 a.m. | 10:08 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 9.4% | $3.91, down 1.0% | down 1.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:30 a.m. | 10:35 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 7.7% | $4.00, up 7.5% | down 8.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:55 p.m. | 1:00 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 15.5% | $3.02, down 2.9% | up 11.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:01 p.m. | 1:11 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 8.0% | $3.64, up 8.3% | down 12.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:16 p.m. | 1:21 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.6% | $3.09, up 1.6% | down 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:22 p.m. | 1:27 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 8.6% | $2.75, down 1.1% | down 11.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:28 p.m. | 1:33 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 12.2% | $2.41, down 1.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:33 p.m. | 1:47 p.m. | 14 min 25 s | up 8.6% | $3.06, up 15.5% | up 1.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:38 p.m. | 2:43 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 10.9% | $2.53, down 3.1% | down 11.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:44 p.m. | 2:49 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.8% | $2.31, up 2.7% | up 6.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:52 p.m. | 2:57 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 9.8% | $2.48, up 0.4% | down 10.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:58 p.m. | 3:03 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 9.7% | $2.25, up 0.9% | down 0.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:06 p.m. | 3:11 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 0.4% | $2.30, up 2.7% | up 8.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:12 p.m. | 3:17 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 11.2% | $2.52, up 1.2% | up 17.9% | 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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