Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on October 2, 2026
XRPN on October 2, 2026: why it ran
On October 2, 2026, XRPN opened up 23.8% from the previous close of 23.43 and reached 53.00 at 12:45 p.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 23.43
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 29.00
- Gap at the open
- up 23.8%
- Pre-market high
- 29.49 at 9:22 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 53.00 at 12:45 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 24.00
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 40.00 at 4:06 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 39.42
- Volume
- 3.87 million
- Relative volume
- 14.2x
- Float
- 23.31 million shares, from filings as of October 2, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 31.59 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for XRPN published between the previous session's close and the first minute XRPN traded 20% above it, at 8:51 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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Analyst sets XRPN stock price ahead of Evernorth's Nasdaq debut
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 23.8% to 29.00 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 53.00 in 195 minutes, then gave back 57% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 39.42.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:52 a.m. | News (Finbold): Analyst sets XRPN stock price ahead of Evernorth's Nasdaq debut |
| 8:51 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 23.43 |
| 9:22 a.m. | Pre-market high, 29.49 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 29.00, up 23.8% from the previous close |
| 12:45 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 53.00 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 39.42, 25.6% 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 58 minutes after the latest news item before it (Finbold, 7:52 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 192,251 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (5%), 454,715 in the first 30 minutes (12%), and 3.22 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (83%).
- Other days XRPN met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 7, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for XRPN 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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