Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on September 1, 2026
DAIC on September 1, 2026: why it ran
On September 1, 2026, DAIC opened down 6.9% from the previous close of 3.48 and reached 4.80 at 9:49 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.
- Previous close
- 3.48
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 3.24
- Gap at the open
- down 6.9%
- Pre-market high
- 3.58 at 6:55 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.80 at 9:49 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.07
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.73 at 5:00 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 3.60
- Volume
- 4.32 million
- Relative volume
- 0.6x
- Float
- 853,881 shares, from filings as of September 1, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.21 million
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for DAIC published between the previous session's close and the first minute DAIC traded 20% above it, at 9:42 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Intraday run. It opened down 6.9% at 3.24, then ran from the open to the high of 4.80 in 19 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:55 a.m. | Pre-market high, 3.58 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 3.24, down 6.9% from the previous close |
| 9:42 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 3.48 |
| 9:48 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 853,881 shares |
| 9:49 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 4.80 |
| 9:53 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:58 a.m. |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 3.60, 25.0% below the high |
The shape is a fixed rule, not a judgement: gapped 10% or more at the open, ran 10% or more from the open to the high, and faded if it gave back 30% or more of that move by the close.
The day in numbers
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 45,099 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 1.63 million in the first 30 minutes (38%), and 2.65 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (61%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 853,881 shares: past it once at 9:48 a.m., twice at 10:01 a.m., three times at 10:18 a.m.
- The halt at 9:53 a.m.: down 14.4% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.78, down 4.8% from the last trade before it, then up 16.1% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days DAIC met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on September 17, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:53 a.m. | 9:58 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
On this date the LULD plan ran under Amendment 18, in force from February 24, 2020: no band doubling at the open, and the closing doubling only for Tier 1 stocks and Tier 2 stocks whose previous close was at or below three dollars. See LULD halts or work out a band with the LULD calculator.
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