Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on November 4, 2026
DKI, November 4: a run to $2.91
DKI opened up 53%, ran to $2.60, 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 $2.91, on 18M shares.
The open
It opened up 53%, at $2.30. It ran to $2.60 by 9:33 a.m.
The close
It closed at $2.11, 27% 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 53.3% to $2.30 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $2.60 in 3 minutes, then gave back 163% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $2.11, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.50 |
| 8:26 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.91 |
| 8:26 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.91 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.30, up 53.3% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.11, 27.5% 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
- $1.50
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.30
- Gap at the open
- +53.3%
- Pre-market high
- $2.91 at 8:26 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.91 at 8:26 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.60
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.11
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +40.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.30 at 4:04 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 23.86 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 272,680
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 22.7×
- Float
- not available
- Shares outstanding
- not available
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 17.76 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (74%), 2.27 million in the first 30 minutes (9%), and 4.11 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (17%).
- Other days DKI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 7, the latest on November 3, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, 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 (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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