Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on September 14, 2026
FTFT on September 14, 2026: why it ran
On September 14, 2026, FTFT opened up 14.6% from the previous close of 2.88 and reached 9.48 at 3:42 p.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.
- Previous close
- 2.88
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 3.30
- Gap at the open
- up 14.6%
- Pre-market high
- 3.43 at 8:11 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 9.48 at 3:42 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.52
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 9.30 at 4:04 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 8.05
- Volume
- 35.44 million
- Relative volume
- 13.0x
- Float
- 7.47 million shares, from filings as of September 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.06 million
Replay FTFT's day
It starts at 2:31 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 2:34 p.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: the afternoon
- Gap and go
- Halted once
- Float traded 4x
- Faded after hours
The day before
On September 11, FTFT ran from $2.00 to $3.39. It gave some of it back and closed at $2.88.
After hours it slipped to $2.48. The data has no news headline for this stock on the 14th.
Pre-market: quiet, then $3.43
The first trades on the 14th were at $2.58, below the $2.88 close. Until about 7:09 a.m. it stayed between $2.52 and $2.73 on thin volume.
That changed late. At 7:52 a.m. one minute reached $3.29 on 90,289 shares. The pre-market high was $3.43 at 8:11 a.m. 1.52 million shares traded before the bell.
At 8:11 a.m. an ask wall also appeared at $3.50. It peaked at 64,583 shares. It was still there at the open.
The wall at $4.16
It opened at $3.30, up 15% from the previous close. About 30 seconds after the open, 35,880 shares traded at exactly $3.50 and that wall was gone by 9:30:36. Two minutes later the stock had reached $4.46.
From 9:34 a.m. on, someone was offering a lot of stock at exactly $4.16.
Stop It's 9:36. FTFT is at $4.02. A big ask wall has been sitting at $4.16 since 9:34. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 9:36 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 9:33 a.m. ET.
It peaked at 54,842 shares at 9:36:28, 0.7% of the float sitting at one price. At 9:36:33 the first trade printed at $4.16. In 3.5 seconds, 58,731 shares traded at exactly $4.16 and the wall was gone. It wasn't pulled. Buyers ate it.
The move did not follow right away. The 9:36 minute closed at $4.13. Over the next 17 minutes it went back up to $4.33 at 9:40, then fell to $3.73 at 9:53.
$3.30 to $5.25, and the float
Then it went. At 9:57 one minute traded 418,736 shares and closed at $4.54. It ran to $5.25 at 10:02 a.m., up 59% from the $3.30 open.
By 10:03 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (7.47 million). At 10:03:44 a single sell order went through 17 price levels, from $5.06 to $4.90. By 10:05 it had dipped to $4.61.
A bid wall showed up at $4.00 at 10:12. It peaked at 60,120 shares and was pulled at 12:36. The stock stayed above it. It then spent the late morning and early afternoon between about $4.30 and $6.10, reaching $6.10 at 1:54 p.m.
One halt
The stock was at $5.81 at the end of the 2:42 minute. Then it moved. The 2:43 minute traded 463,557 shares and closed at $6.53. A single buy order took 144,219 shares through 29 levels, from $5.89 to $6.17.
At 2:44 p.m. it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $6.89.
Stop It's 2:49. FTFT has been halted since 2:44, with the last trade at $6.89. Would you buy when it reopens?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 2:49 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 2:46 p.m. ET.
It reopened at 2:49:20 p.m. at $7.11, 3% above where it stopped. 161,637 shares traded in that one opening print. The 2:49 minute ran to $8.25, up 16% from the reopen.
$7.10 to $9.00
It gave back some of that and chopped between about $7.10 and $7.98 for a quarter hour. It dipped to $7.10 in the 3:04 minute. At 3:05 p.m. one minute reached $9.00, up 27% from the $7.10 low a minute earlier, and a 34,035-share buy order went through 19 levels, $7.92 to $8.11.
For the next 25 minutes it traded between about $7.79 and $9.36. Big bids sat below the price. One was 127,180 shares at $7.55, which peaked at 3:31 p.m. and was pulled at 3:31:54. The next minute traded as low as $7.43.
The last hour
At 3:39 p.m. it was at $7.65. The 3:41 minute opened at $7.75.
Stop It's 3:42. FTFT is at $8.07, after climbing from $7.75 a minute ago. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 3:42 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 3:39 p.m. ET.
It hit $9.48, the high of the day, at 3:42 p.m. At 3:42:15 a single buy order took 36,587 shares through 34 levels, $8.79 to $9.21. Within six minutes it was back at $8.44.
It bounced to $9.25 at 3:54, then dropped to $7.82 at 3:56. It finished the regular session at $8.05.
By the close, 29.22 million shares had traded in the regular session: the float changed hands about 4 times. Relative volume was about 13.
After hours
The stock jumped at the 4:00 p.m. bell, to $9.03 in the first minute. After hours it traded as high as $9.30 at 4:04 p.m. Then it faded to $5.32 by 7:50 p.m., down 43%. 4.70 million shares traded after hours.
What to take from it
- A wall breaking is not always the move. The $4.16 wall was eaten in 3.5 seconds, but the stock was lower 17 minutes later. The real run started at 9:57.
- A halt can reopen higher than it stopped, and the book is thin right after. The 2:44 p.m. halt stopped at $6.89 and reopened at $7.11. A 5,000-share buy a second later cost $230 over the screen.
- After hours can undo the day. It traded at $9.30 at 4:04 p.m. and at $5.32 by 7:50 p.m.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for FTFT published between the previous session's close and the first minute FTFT traded 20% above it, at 9:30 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Gap and go. It gapped up 14.6% to 3.30 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 9.48 in 372 minutes through a halt, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 23% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 8:11 a.m. | Pre-market high, 3.43 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.88 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 3.30, up 14.6% from the previous close | |
| 10:03 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 7.47 million shares | |
| 2:44 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 2:49 p.m. | |
| 3:42 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 9.48 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 8.05, 15.1% 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: 1.52 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (4%), 4.78 million in the first 30 minutes (13%), and 29.14 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (82%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 7.47 million shares: past it once at 10:03 a.m., twice at 12:11 p.m., three times at 2:23 p.m.
- The halt at 2:44 p.m.: up 22.7% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 7.11, up 3.2% from the last trade before it, then up 3.5% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days FTFT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on September 23, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:44 p.m. | 2:49 p.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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