Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on September 3, 2026
DSS on September 3, 2026: why it ran
On September 3, 2026, DSS opened up 8.7% from the previous close of 0.5520 and reached 1.18 at 10:10 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it 4 times.
- Previous close
- 0.5520
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 0.6000
- Gap at the open
- up 8.7%
- Pre-market high
- 0.6572 at 9:29 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.18 at 10:10 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.5711
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 0.9500 at 4:57 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 0.8314
- Volume
- 39.70 million
- Relative volume
- 6398.1x
- Float
- 3.83 million shares, from filings as of September 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.04 million
Replay DSS's day
It starts at 9:31 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:34 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The day, step by step
- Small cap
- Momentum
- Main move: 9:40 to 10:10
- Big bid near $1
- Halted four times
- Float traded 10x
- Lower high, faded
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.
Stop It's 9:45. DSS is at $0.91, up 65% from the $0.55 close, and it has gone from $0.66 to here in eight minutes. $1.00 is nine cents above. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 9:45 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 9:42 a.m. ET.
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.
Stop It's 10:05. DSS is at $0.97, up from $0.7865 four minutes ago, and just under the $0.99 it reached in the 10:04 minute. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 10:05 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 10:02 a.m. ET.
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.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for DSS published between the previous session's close and the first minute DSS traded 20% above it, at 9:38 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 up 8.7% at 0.6000, then ran from the open to the high of 1.18 in 40 minutes through 3 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:29 a.m. | Pre-market high, 0.6572 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 0.6000, up 8.7% from the previous close | |
| 9:38 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 0.5520 | |
| 9:45 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:50 a.m. | |
| 9:51 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:56 a.m. | |
| 9:57 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 3.83 million shares | |
| 10:05 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 10:10 a.m. | |
| 10:10 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 1.18 | |
| 10:10 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 10:15 a.m. | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 0.8314, 29.5% 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: 45,026 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 4.87 million in the first 30 minutes (12%), and 34.79 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (88%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 3.83 million shares: past it once at 9:57 a.m., twice at 10:04 a.m., three times at 10:16 a.m.
- The halt at 9:45 a.m.: up 38.3% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 1.10, up 11.1% from the last trade before it, then down 13.6% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 9:51 a.m.: down 4.0% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 0.9499, unchanged from the last trade before it, then down 10.5% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 10:05 a.m.: up 25.9% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 1.15, up 7.5% from the last trade before it.
- The halt at 10:10 a.m.: down 6.5% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 0.9999, unchanged from the last trade before it, then up 1.0% over the next 5 minutes.
- In our recaps, this is the only day DSS met the small-cap rule.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:45 a.m. | 9:50 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:51 a.m. | 9:56 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:05 a.m. | 10:10 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:10 a.m. | 10:15 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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