Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on September 16, 2026
DCX on September 16, 2026: why it ran
On September 16, 2026, DCX opened up 0.9% from the previous close of 0.3495 and reached 0.5500 at 1:54 p.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.
- Previous close
- 0.3495
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 0.3528
- Gap at the open
- up 0.9%
- Pre-market high
- 0.3694 at 6:57 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.5500 at 1:54 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.2624
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.14 at 4:54 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 0.3201
- Volume
- 39.23 million
- Relative volume
- 860.6x
- Float
- 351.54 million shares, from filings as of September 16, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 351.58 million
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for DCX published between the previous session's close and the first minute DCX traded 20% above it, at 12:48 p.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 0.9% at 0.3528, then ran from the open to the high of 0.5500 in 264 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:57 a.m. | Pre-market high, 0.3694 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 0.3528, up 0.9% from the previous close |
| 12:48 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 0.3495 |
| 1:54 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 0.5500 |
| 1:57 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 2:02 p.m. |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 0.3201, 41.8% 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: 4,997 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 5,294 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 39.22 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- The halt at 1:57 p.m.: down 18.3% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 0.2999, down 6.3% from the last trade before it, then unchanged over the next 5 minutes.
- In our recaps, this is the only day DCX met the small-cap rule.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:57 p.m. | 2:02 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.
Trade this day
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