Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on October 2, 2026
ICU on October 2, 2026: why it ran
On October 2, 2026, ICU opened up 0.8% from the previous close of 3.75 and reached 4.79 at 3:07 p.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 3.75
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 3.78
- Gap at the open
- up 0.8%
- Pre-market high
- 3.82 at 9:10 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.79 at 3:07 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.65
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.87 at 7:02 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 4.64
- Volume
- 151,316
- Relative volume
- 9.7x
- Float
- 4.38 million shares, from filings as of October 2, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.41 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for ICU published between the previous session's close and the first minute ICU traded 20% above it, at 12:45 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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SeaStar Medical Announces Late-Breaking Presentation at ASN Kidney Week 2026
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Intraday run. It opened up 0.8% at 3.78, then ran from the open to the high of 4.79 in 337 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:10 a.m. | Pre-market high, 3.82 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 3.78, up 0.8% from the previous close |
| 9:43 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): SeaStar Medical Announces Late-Breaking Presentation at ASN Kidney Week 2026 |
| 12:45 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 3.75 |
| 3:07 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 4.79 |
| 3:58 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 4.64, 3.1% 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 3 hours 2 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 9:43 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 12 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 2,017 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 149,287 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Other days ICU met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on October 7, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for ICU 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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