Recaps · September 18, 2026

NCPL, September 18: the $1.00 wall, one halt, and $1.12

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: late morning
• Round-number break
• Halted once
• Lower high after the top
• Float traded 4x

Float

6.71 million shares

Volume

37.41 million shares

Previous close

$0.5622

Open

$0.6870 (up 22.2%)

High

$1.12 at 11:07 a.m.

Halts

1 (11:11 a.m.)

Close

$0.7354

The day before

On September 17, NCPL ran from $0.41 to $0.66. It gave some of it back and closed at $0.56.

Pre-market: up to $0.85

The first trades on the 18th were around $0.56, right at the close. From $0.56 at 7:04 a.m. it ran to $0.75 at 7:33 a.m., up 33%.

It pulled back, then ran again from $0.64 at 7:59 a.m. to the pre-market high, $0.85 at 8:44 a.m. 6.37 million shares traded before the bell. Then it fell to $0.63 at 9:02 a.m., down 25% from $0.85.

$0.71 to $0.99

It opened at $0.69, up 22% from the previous close. By 9:34 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (6.71 million).

It ran to $0.78 at 9:41 a.m., up 14% from the open. At 10:02 a.m. it cleared the pre-market high of $0.85.

From $0.71 at 9:53 a.m. it ran to $0.99 at 10:07 a.m., up 39%. Then it slid. It fell to $0.70 at 10:33 a.m., down 29% from $0.99.

The wall at $1.00

From 10:02 a.m. on, someone was offering a lot of stock at exactly $1.00. It grew through the morning and peaked at 150,635 shares at 10:53 a.m., about 2% of the float.

The stock started climbing again from $0.73 at 10:48. By 10:58 it had reached $0.87.

Here's what happened. The 10:59 candle closed at $0.99. At 11:00:03, in under a second, 157,737 shares traded at exactly $1.00 and the wall was gone. It wasn't pulled. Buyers ate it.

It hit $1.07 at 11:01 a.m., up 46% from $0.73. Then it dropped to $0.85 at 11:04 a.m., down 20% from $1.07.

$1.12, then the halt

From $0.85 at 11:04 it ran to $1.12, the high so far, at 11:07 a.m. Within three minutes it was back at $0.97.

At 11:11 a.m. it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $0.89.

Trading resumed at 11:16:34. In that same second, a single print of 105,746 shares crossed at $0.8363.

Then it fell to $0.75 at 11:22 a.m., down 33% from $1.12.

The rest of the day

It came back once more. At 12:06 p.m. it pushed to $0.93, a lower high under the $1.12 top.

From there it faded: $0.74 at 1:09 p.m., $0.68 at 2:57 p.m., and $0.74 at the close. In the afternoon, bid walls of about 150,000 shares showed up and were pulled, at 12:50 p.m., 1:39 p.m. and 1:51 p.m.

By the close, 29.60 million shares had traded: the float changed hands about 4 times, at about 2.5 times its normal volume.

What to take from it

• The $1.00 ask wall did not hold. The $1.00 wall, which peaked at 150,635 shares, was gone in under a second as 157,737 shares traded at $1.00, and the run went on to $1.12.
• After the top, the next push stopped lower. $1.12 at 11:07 a.m., then $0.93 at 12:06 p.m.
• Most of the move was gone by the close. It closed at $0.74, 34% below the $1.12 high.