Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on September 24, 2026
SKYQ on September 24, 2026: why it ran
On September 24, 2026, SKYQ opened up 20.9% from the previous close of 2.54 and reached 3.47 at 11:42 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 2.54
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 3.07
- Gap at the open
- up 20.9%
- Pre-market high
- 3.36 at 8:46 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.47 at 11:42 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.52
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.98 at 5:08 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 2.91
- Volume
- 9.66 million
- Relative volume
- 11.9x
- Float
- 8.38 million shares, from filings as of September 24, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.83 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for SKYQ published between the previous session's close and the first minute SKYQ traded 20% above it, at 7:50 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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Sky Quarry Restarts Nevada's Only Crude Oil Refinery
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 20.9% to 3.07 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 3.47 in 132 minutes, then gave back 140% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 2.91.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:45 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Sky Quarry Restarts Nevada's Only Crude Oil Refinery |
| 7:50 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.54 |
| 8:46 a.m. | Pre-market high, 3.36 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 3.07, up 20.9% from the previous close |
| 11:42 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 3.47 |
| 12:22 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 8.38 million shares |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 2.91, 16.1% 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
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 5 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 7:45 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4.71 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (49%), 912,191 in the first 30 minutes (9%), and 4.04 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (42%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 8.38 million shares: past it once at 12:22 p.m.
- Other days SKYQ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 14, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for SKYQ 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.
Trade this day
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