Recaps · September 17, 2026

DTSS, September 17: a 9:10 headline, 17 halts, and $2.29

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Gap, run and fade
• Catalyst: news
• Halted 17 times
• Float traded 6x
• Walls pulled near reopens

Float

8.19 million shares

Volume

55.68 million shares

Previous close

$0.5912

Open

$0.9673 (up 63.6%)

High

$2.29 at 11:25 a.m.

Halts

17 (9:32 a.m. and 9:43 a.m. and 9:53 a.m. and 10:05 a.m. and 10:12 a.m. and 10:22 a.m. and 10:33 a.m. and 10:38 a.m. and 10:54 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. and 11:07 a.m. and 11:14 a.m. and 11:19 a.m. and 11:25 a.m. and 11:35 a.m. and 11:48 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.)

Close

$1.22

The day before

On September 16, DTSS ran from $0.69 to $1.08 and closed at $0.59, below where it opened.

A press release had come out that morning at 9:28 a.m.: “Datasea Expands into China's Trillion-RMB Silver Economy Through Strategic Cooperation in AI Elderly Care Robots.” Its last trade of the day was at $0.94.

Pre-market: the float traded by 9:15 a.m.

The 4:00 a.m. bar opened at $0.86, already above the $0.59 close. By 4:13 it was down to $0.70. A burst from 4:49 to 4:52 took it to $0.87, and it dipped to $0.71 by 4:54.

It chopped between about $0.71 and $0.87 until about 7:30, then slid. The pre-market low was $0.60 at 8:25 a.m., just above the previous close. From about 8:30 to 9:09 it mostly sat between $0.61 and $0.65, with little volume.

At 9:10 a.m. PRNewsWire ran: “Datasea's AI Agent Digital Marketing Services Enter Scaled Commercial Deployment, with Five Agreements Representing Potential Annualized Service Volume of Up to Approximately US$89.4 Million (RMB600 Million).” The stock was at $0.64 when the 9:10 minute began. By 9:12 it had touched $1.14, and the pre-market high was $1.18 at 9:13 a.m.

By 9:15 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (8.19 million). 13.37 million shares traded before the bell.

Then it slid. It hit $0.78 at 9:22 a.m., down 34% from $1.18.

The open and the first halts

It opened at $0.97, up 64% from the previous close. The low since the open was $0.85 at 9:31.

At 9:32:51 it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $1.07. It reopened at 9:42:51 at $1.36, 27% above where it stopped, and cleared the $1.18 pre-market high. A single print of 388,771 shares crossed at $1.36 on the reopen.

It ran to $1.51 and was halted again at 9:43:10. It reopened at 9:53:10 at $1.65 on a 542,098-share print.

The high of that run was $1.80 at 9:53, a minute where it traded as low as $1.50. At 9:53:44 it was halted again with the last trade at $1.50. It reopened at 10:03:44 at $1.35.

Then it fell to $1.21 at 10:05 a.m., down 33% from $1.80, and was halted at 10:05:24. It reopened at 10:10:24 at $1.29 and climbed to $1.49 by 10:12. At 10:12:41 it was halted again.

Walls that came and went, 10:12 to 10:44

This is the part a chart doesn't show you. A bid wall had appeared at $1.49 at 10:12:27. It peaked at 298,508 shares at 10:12:41 (3.6% of the float), the second the halt began. It was pulled at 10:13:52, while the stock was still halted.

The stock reopened at 10:22:41 at $1.75, and a buy order swept 132,950 shares from $1.60 to $1.90 across 18 levels. It reached $1.90, up 9% from the reopen, and was halted again at 10:22:56.

It reopened at 10:32:56 at $1.80, on a 493,033-share print. Within the minute it traded down to $1.65. An ask wall at $1.65 appeared at 10:33:01 and peaked at 352,236 shares at 10:33:09 (4.3% of the float). It was halted at 10:33:14, and the wall was pulled at 10:34:52.

It reopened at 10:38:14 at $1.65. Another ask wall, at $1.50, started at 10:38:38 and peaked at 291,939 shares at 10:38:50 (3.6% of the float). It was halted at 10:38:52 and reopened at 10:43:52. The $1.50 wall was pulled one second after the reopen.

Here's what happened. The 10:44 minute went as low as $1.32, down 31% from $1.90. It touched $1.31 by 10:49.

The climb from $1.35

From $1.35 at 10:52 a.m. it ran to $1.81 at 11:00 a.m., up 34%. It was halted at 10:54:18 and reopened at 10:59:18 at $1.60 along the way. A bid wall at $1.81 showed up at 11:00:32 and peaked at 333,107 shares (4.1% of the float). The stock was halted at 11:00:46, and the wall was pulled at 11:05:44, two seconds before the reopen.

Three more halts followed, at 11:07:19, 11:14:12 and 11:19:55, and each reopened higher than the last. At 11:19:36 and 11:19:40 two buy sweeps (108,166 and 81,057 shares) went from $1.92 up to $2.04. A bid wall appeared at $2.04 at 11:19:42 and peaked at 295,894 shares (3.6% of the float).

The 11:19:55 halt ended at 11:24:55, and it reopened at $2.18 on a 203,091-share print. The $2.04 wall had been pulled one second earlier, at 11:24:54.

Here's what happened. It ran to $2.29, the high of the day, in the 11:25 minute. At 11:25:24 it was halted with the last trade at $2.03.

The slide: 11:35 to 12:05

It reopened at 11:35:25 at $1.64, 19% below where it stopped, on a 232,149-share print. By the end of that minute it was at $1.49, about 10 minutes after the top. An ask wall at $1.49 appeared at 11:35:33 and peaked at 313,830 shares at 11:35:45 (3.8% of the float). It was halted again at 11:35:47, and the wall was pulled at 11:37:33.

It reopened at 11:40:47 near $1.40 and traded down to $1.32 in the 11:41 minute. At 11:43:07 a sell sweep of 68,379 shares went from $1.32 to $1.30. The 11:47 minute closed at $1.18, and it was halted at 11:48:00 and reopened at 11:53:00 at $1.13.

It was halted a last time at 12:00:09 with the last trade at $1.07. It reopened at 12:05:09, and the minute low was $1.04, down 55% from $2.29.

The rest of the day

From 12:06 until 12:20 it held between about $1.17 and $1.25. At 12:31 it dropped to $0.956 on 387,645 shares in one minute, and it hit $0.85 at 12:38. By 12:59 it was back at $1.21.

The early afternoon was a drift, mostly between $1.02 and $1.20, with a low of $0.96 at 1:34 p.m. At 2:32 p.m. a sell sweep of 74,569 shares went from $1.32 to $1.24. At 2:38 p.m. a buy sweep of 104,339 shares took it from $1.42 to $1.45, and it pushed to $1.49 at 2:38 p.m., a lower high under the $2.29 top.

From there it faded: $1.13 at 3:52 p.m., and $1.22 at the close, 47% below the high.

Pre-market and the regular session together came to 52.51 million shares: the float changed hands about 6 times. The regular session alone was 39.15 million. It was halted 17 times, every one a volatility pause.

After hours it traded between $1.06 and $1.41, with the high at 4:02 p.m. After-hours volume was 3.17 million shares.

What to take from it

• A halt can reopen far from where it stopped. The 11:25 a.m. halt stopped at $2.03 and reopened at $1.64.
• The cost of a market buy at a reopen depends on the book. On 5,000 shares, the 9:42 reopen cost $0 over the screen with 29,662 shares offered. The 11:05 reopen cost $235 with 1,019 offered.
• Most of the move was gone by the close. DTSS closed at $1.22, 47% below the $2.29 high.