Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on October 8, 2026
XRTX on October 8, 2026: why it ran
On October 8, 2026, XRTX opened down 0.9% from the previous close of 1.75 and reached 1.83 at 3:53 p.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 1.75
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 1.73
- Gap at the open
- down 0.9%
- Pre-market high
- 1.75 at 4:53 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.83 at 3:53 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.71
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.46 at 4:22 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 1.78
- Volume
- 5.37 million
- Relative volume
- 17.4x
- Float
- 1.68 million shares, from filings as of October 8, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.73 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for XRTX published between the previous session's close and the first minute XRTX traded 20% above it, at 4:03 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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XORTX Outlines Anticipated Health Canada Clinical Trial Application for XRx-026 for Gout
News via Stock News API
How it traded
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:53 a.m. | Pre-market high, 1.75 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 1.73, down 0.9% from the previous close |
| 3:53 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 1.83 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 1.78, 2.5% below the high |
| 4:00 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): XORTX Outlines Anticipated Health Canada Clinical Trial Application for XRx-026 for Gout |
| 4:03 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 1.75 |
| 4:15 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.68 million shares |
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 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 4:00 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 20 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 111 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 5.37 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.68 million shares: past it once at 4:15 p.m., twice at 4:37 p.m., three times at 6:46 p.m.
- Other days XRTX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on October 9, 2026.
- The next session, October 9, 2026, it gapped up 13.9% at 9:30 a.m.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for XRTX 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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