Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on November 4, 2026
FTCI, November 4: earnings at 6:30, a $2.23 high, and $1.39 at the close
FTCI opened up 44% after news, then faded below its open by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
Earnings wake it up early
A 6:30 a.m. headline, "FTC Solar Announces Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results," came with a jump from $1.53 to a $1.78 high by 6:35. Pre-market volume reached 16M shares, more than the 14M-share float. It opened at $2.09, up 44% from the $1.45 previous close.
The open and the first hour
Stop It's 9:36. FTCI is at $2.00. It opened at $2.09 at 9:30 and traded as low as $1.88 at 9:32. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:33 a.m. and stop at 9:36 a.m. ET for your call.
It hit $2.23, the high of the day, that minute, on 695K shares, and closed the 9:37 minute at $2.05.
A 78K-share ask wall at $2.20 was first seen at 10:23:55 and peaked at 78K shares at 10:28:56. After it appeared, the stock did not trade above $2.20.
The slide to the close
At 10:59 it dropped to $1.97 on 543K shares. By 11:24 it was at $1.54. It drifted for hours, dropped on a 75K-share sell sweep at 3:27 p.m., and closed at $1.39, 38% under the high.
What to take from it: FTCI's float traded before the open, yet the high came at 9:36 and the stock closed 38% below it.
Replay FTCI's day
It starts at 9:18 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:21 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and fade. It gapped up 44.1% to $2.09 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $1.39.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 6:30 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): FTC Solar Announces Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results | |
| 6:30 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.45 | |
| 8:16 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.17 | |
| 9:17 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 14.14 million shares | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.09, up 44.1% from the previous close | |
| 9:36 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.23 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.39, 37.7% 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
- $1.45
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.09
- Gap at the open
- +44.1%
- Pre-market high
- $2.17 at 8:16 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.23 at 9:36 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.38
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.39
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −4.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.54 at 4:13 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 34.77 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 629,475
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 371.7×
- Float
- 14.14 million shares, from filings as of November 4, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 18.29 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 6:30 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 16.44 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (46%), 7.46 million in the first 30 minutes (21%), and 11.50 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (32%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 14.14 million shares: past it once at 9:17 a.m., twice at 10:53 a.m.
- Other days FTCI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 29, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for FTCI 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.
Trade this day
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