Recaps · September 3, 2026

DSS, September 3: the $0.99 bid, four halts, and $1.18

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: 9:40 to 10:10
• Big bid near $1
• Halted four times
• Float traded 10x
• Lower high, faded

Float

3.83 million shares

Volume

39.70 million shares

Previous close

$0.5520

Open

$0.6000 (up 8.7%)

High

$1.18 at 10:10 a.m.

Halts

4 (9:45 a.m. and 9:51 a.m. and 10:05 a.m. and 10:10 a.m.)

Close

$0.8314

The day before and the pre-market

DSS closed September 2 at $0.55. That day it ranged from $0.47 to $0.66 on 49,207 shares. Its last bar of that evening was $0.65.

The first trade on the 3rd was at $0.60, already above the close. Pre-market was thin. It dipped to $0.5711 at 5:01 a.m. and touched $0.65 at 7:10 a.m. The pre-market high was $0.66 at 9:29 a.m. Only 45,026 shares traded before the bell, about 1% of the 3.83-million-share float.

The open and the first push

It opened at $0.60, up 9% from the previous close. At 9:37 it traded through the pre-market high, hitting $0.66.

Volume then built quickly. The 9:40 minute traded 37,110 shares and touched $0.7559. The 9:42 minute traded 191,129 and ranged from $0.7047 to $0.804. By 9:44 it had touched $0.9159.

The bid at $0.99 and two halts

From 9:45:36 someone was bidding for a lot of stock at exactly $0.99. It peaked at 210,299 shares at 9:45:45, about 5.5% of the float. Three seconds later, at 9:45:48, DSS was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $0.99.

It reopened at 9:50:48 with a 186,736-share print at $1.10. Eight seconds later the price was back at $0.99. At 9:50:56 trades started printing at that price, and in under a second, 43,693 shares traded at exactly $0.99 and the bid was gone. Sellers hit it.

Now the book flipped. By 9:50:58 there was an ask wall at $0.95. It peaked at 280,979 shares at 9:51:10, about 7.3% of the float. At 9:51:12 DSS was halted again.

It reopened at 9:56:12 with a 108,312-share print at $0.9399, and the $0.95 wall was pulled a second later. At 9:56:16 a single buy order swept 57,940 shares from $0.93 to $0.96 across 20 price levels. The 9:56 minute traded 966,356 shares.

Then it fell hard. The 9:57 minute went down to $0.815, and at 10:01 it hit $0.7865, 29% under the $1.10 reopen print.

The bounce from $0.7865

It bounced quickly. The 10:02 minute reached $0.9473 and the 10:04 minute reached $0.99.

Here's what happened. It ran to $1.07 and at 10:05:25 it was halted (a volatility pause). An ask wall at $1.08, first seen at 10:05:14, grew to 134,932 shares by 10:08:53.

It reopened at 10:10:25 at $1.15, 7% above the $1.07 where it stopped. A 263,499-share print opened it, and the $1.08 wall was gone a second later. The same minute it reached $1.18, the high of the day, up 114% on the previous close.

It didn't last. At 10:10:31 a sell order swept 111,644 shares from $1.11 down to $1.08, and at 10:10:33 another sold 76,033 shares from $1.10 to $1.00. At 10:10:48 it was halted a fourth time with the last trade at $1.00. Just before that halt, from 10:10:34, an ask wall at $1.00 grew to 347,357 shares by 10:10:46, about 9.1% of the float.

It reopened at 10:15:48 with a 116,839-share print at $0.9389, below the $1.00 where it stopped. The $1.00 wall was pulled a second later. The 10:15 minute went down to $0.88.

The rest of the day

It came back once more. From 10:23 it worked up, and at 10:29 it pushed to $1.15, a lower high under the $1.18 top. A 106,265-share ask wall appeared at $1.13 at 10:29:30.

Then it broke down. The 10:32 minute traded 1.21 million shares and went down to $0.94. The 10:35 minute traded 1.24 million and went down to $0.8686. It was $0.82 by 10:42, $0.74 at 11:06 and $0.70 at 12:05 p.m.

It bounced in the afternoon. It reached $0.89 at 1:31 p.m. and $0.88 at 3:55 p.m. The regular session ended at $0.83, about 30% below the $1.18 high.

Regular-session volume was 36.81 million shares: the float changed hands about 10 times, at a relative volume of about 6,400, and it was halted four times. After hours added 2.85 million shares. It touched $0.95 at 4:57 p.m. and was at $0.77 in the last bar of the evening, at 7:59 p.m.

What to take from it

• A big bid near a round number can disappear fast. The $0.99 bid peaked at 210,299 shares. When trading reached it after the halt, 43,693 shares traded there in under a second and the bid was gone and the price kept falling.
• A halt tells you nothing about direction. The 10:05 halt stopped at $1.07 and reopened at $1.15. The 10:10 halt stopped at $1.00 and reopened at $0.9389.
• After the top, the next push stopped lower. $1.18 at 10:10, then $1.15 at 10:29. By the close it was $0.83.