Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on October 7, 2026
SKK on October 7, 2026: why it ran
On October 7, 2026, SKK opened up 2.9% from the previous close of 4.55 and reached 6.50 at 10:28 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it 2 times.
- Previous close
- 4.55
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 4.68
- Gap at the open
- up 2.9%
- Pre-market high
- 4.57 at 9:12 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 6.50 at 10:28 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.55
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 5.08 at 4:00 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 4.80
- Volume
- 254,946
- Relative volume
- 16.1x
- Float
- 2.88 million shares, from filings as of October 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.96 million
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for SKK published between the previous session's close and the first minute SKK traded 20% above it, at 10:17 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Intraday run. It opened up 2.9% at 4.68, then ran from the open to the high of 6.50 in 58 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:12 a.m. | Pre-market high, 4.57 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 4.68, up 2.9% from the previous close |
| 10:17 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 4.55 |
| 10:18 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 10:28 a.m. |
| 10:28 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 6.50 |
| 10:29 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 10:39 a.m. |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 4.80, 26.2% 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: 608 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,961 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 252,377 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- The halt at 10:18 a.m.: up 12.2% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 6.30, up 8.6% from the last trade before it, then down 10.0% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 10:29 a.m.: down 2.2% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 5.30, down 6.5% from the last trade before it, then down 11.1% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days SKK met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 19, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:18 a.m. | 10:28 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:29 a.m. | 10:39 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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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