Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on September 21, 2026
CUE on September 21, 2026: why it ran
On September 21, 2026, CUE opened up 3.9% from the previous close of 37.05 and reached 66.69 at 6:45 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 37.05
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 38.50
- Gap at the open
- up 3.9%
- Pre-market high
- 66.69 at 6:45 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 66.69 at 6:45 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 23.79
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 29.50 at 4:07 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 28.27
- Volume
- 2.04 million
- Relative volume
- 22.8x
- Float
- 6.61 million shares, from filings as of September 21, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 7.26 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for CUE published between the previous session's close and the first minute CUE traded 20% above it, at 4:00 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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Cue Biopharma Announces Positive Topline Results from CUE-221 Phase 2 Study in Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria
News via Stock News API
How it traded
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Sep 20, 6:00 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Cue Biopharma Announces Positive Topline Results from CUE-221 Phase 2 Study in Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria |
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 37.05 |
| 6:45 a.m. | Pre-market high, 66.69 |
| 6:45 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 66.69 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 38.50, up 3.9% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 28.27, 57.6% 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
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 22 hours after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, Sep 20, 6:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 674,774 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (33%), 236,515 in the first 30 minutes (12%), and 1.13 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (55%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day CUE met the small-cap rule.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for CUE that day.
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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