Recaps · September 24, 2026

FOFO, September 24: a 3:02 p.m. halt and a $3.31 after-hours spike

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: the afternoon
• Halted once
• Ask walls
• Lower high
• After-hours spike
• Low-float

Float

1.68 million shares

Volume

3.91 million shares

Previous close

$1.76

Open

$1.79 (up 1.7%)

High

$2.90 at 3:12 p.m.

Halts

1 (3:02 p.m.)

Close

$2.43

Pre-market and a quiet morning

The previous close was $1.76. The first pre-market trades were at $1.81 at 7:28 a.m. The pre-market high was $1.82. Only 220 shares traded before the bell.

The open was $1.79 at 9:30. For the next four hours the stock barely moved. Many minutes had no trades at all. It sat between about $1.84 and $1.98, and by 1:50 p.m. it traded at $1.99.

The afternoon build

At 1:56 p.m. it traded $2.00, on 1,878 shares. By 2:03 p.m. it reached $2.15. Then it slipped back. It traded $1.96 at 2:28 p.m. and $2.00 at 2:40 p.m.

A second push started at 2:53 p.m. It went from $2.08 to $2.20 by 2:59 p.m. At 3:01 p.m. the minute traded at $2.20, on 718 shares. Volume was still small.

The halt at 3:02

In the 3:02 p.m. minute the price jumped from $2.20 to $2.62. 7,340 shares traded. It was halted at 3:02:46 (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $2.62.

It reopened at 3:07:46 at $2.62. A single trade of 18,212 shares printed at $2.62 on the reopen. In the 3:07 minute 61,806 shares traded, more than in the whole day before 3:02.

Walls above the price

Soon after the reopen, large ask walls showed up on the book. At 3:08:21 there were sellers at $2.91. The wall peaked at 26,800 shares (1.6% of the float) and was pulled at 3:11:41. Another at $3.05 was first seen at 3:08:32. By 3:11:36 it showed 24,800 shares.

The price reached $2.78 at 3:08, fell to $2.30 in the 3:09 minute, then worked back up, closing the 3:10 minute at $2.70.

In the 3:12 minute it hit $2.90, the regular-session high so far. A wall at $2.94 had been up for just over a minute and was pulled at 3:12:43. A $3.05 wall went at 3:12:46.

At 3:12:48 a sell order for 12,950 shares ran from $2.88 down to $2.77 across 12 levels in about 50 milliseconds. New walls were first seen at $3.02 (3:12:47) and $3.11 (3:12:48).

The wall at $3.02

The wall at $3.02 was first seen at 3:12:47. It peaked at 26,596 shares at 3:22:25, 1.6% of the float. The stock itself drifted down to $2.41 at 3:20 and $2.43 at 3:21.

It pushed to $2.80 at 3:24, a lower high under $2.90. At 3:25:00 the $3.02 wall was pulled. The size left the book without trading there. A new ask wall at $3.18 was first seen in the same second. It later peaked at 24,600 shares at 3:55:41.

The price did not follow. It traded $2.72 in the 3:25 minute, and a 12,565-share sell swept $2.56 to $2.46 at 3:27:46. By 3:33 it was at $2.22.

The close

The afternoon faded into a range of about $2.22 to $2.49. A push to $2.49 came at 3:55 p.m. It closed the regular session near $2.43 (the 3:59 minute closed at $2.43).

By the close, 1.33 million shares had traded in the regular session. The float is 1.68 million shares.

After hours

The stock moved again after the bell. In the 4:01 minute it went from $2.45 to $2.73. At 4:02 it hit $3.27, on 316,773 shares in one minute. The high of the day, $3.31, came at 4:11 p.m.

It then faded in steps. It traded $2.67 at 4:18, $2.91 at 4:22, $2.28 by 4:59 and mostly between $2.25 and $2.40 from 5 p.m. to 6:50 p.m., with a spike to $2.50 at 5:34. At 6:56 p.m. it dropped to $2.18, and it held around $2.18 to $2.20 for a while. A bounce to $2.47 came at 7:54 p.m. The last bar at 7:59 p.m. was $2.40.

After hours, 2.58 million shares traded. That is nearly twice the regular session's volume. The whole day came to 3.91 million shares.

What to take from it

• A wall can disappear without a single trade. The $3.02 wall was pulled at 3:25:00 and the price did not follow it up.
• Reopens and breakouts can be liquid or thin. The 3:07 reopen filled at the screen price. The $2.90 high showed only 32 shares at the screen price.
• After hours can move more than the regular session. The day's high of $3.31 came at 4:11 p.m., after the close.