Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on October 2, 2026
QTEX on October 2, 2026: why it ran
On October 2, 2026, QTEX opened up 19.8% from the previous close of 0.7846 and reached 1.30 at 1:32 p.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 0.7846
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 0.9398
- Gap at the open
- up 19.8%
- Pre-market high
- 0.9745 at 4:35 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.30 at 1:32 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.8401
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.32 at 4:03 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 1.11
- Volume
- 37.68 million
- Relative volume
- 48.9x
- Float
- 61.07 million shares, from filings as of October 2, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 70.97 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for QTEX published between the previous session's close and the first minute QTEX traded 20% above it, at 4:09 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 19.8% to 0.9398 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 1.30 in 242 minutes, then gave back 53% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 1.11.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:09 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 0.7846 |
| 4:35 a.m. | Pre-market high, 0.9745 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 0.9398, up 19.8% from the previous close |
| 1:32 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 1.30 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 1.11, 14.6% 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
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 10.48 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (28%), 4.15 million in the first 30 minutes (11%), and 23.05 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (61%).
- Other days QTEX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 6, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for QTEX 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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