Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 14, 2026
JZ, October 14: a halt 41 seconds in, $2.14 at 9:40, and a fade
JZ opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.14 through one halt during the session.
What happened
The open and the halt
No news is in the data. It opened at $1.40 and hit $1.68 in 41 seconds. A volatility pause froze it at 9:30:41.
Stop It's 9:35. JZ has been halted since 9:30 with its last trade at $1.68, up 21% on the day, and is about to reopen. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:32 a.m. and stop at 9:35 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at 9:35:41 at $1.72, above the halt price. It ran to $1.90, then dipped.
The 9:40 push
Buyers came back, and the 9:39 minute closed at $1.94.
Stop It's 9:40. JZ is at $1.96, up from a low of $1.66 at 9:38 and 41% above the previous close. Would you chase it here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:37 a.m. and stop at 9:40 a.m. ET for your call.
At 9:40:00 two big buy orders lifted it to $2.14. The same minute closed at $1.73.
A quiet stretch
The selling won. It slid to $1.31 by 9:50, then went quiet.
Stop It's 11:06. JZ is at $1.45 after a quiet stretch near $1.44. It is well below the $2.14 high from 9:40. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:03 a.m. and stop at 11:06 a.m. ET for your call.
At 11:06:35 two big buy orders pushed it to $1.70, short of the top. It closed at $1.46, 32% below the high.
What to take from it: The high came in the busiest minute, and every later push stopped lower.
Replay JZ's day
It starts at 9:21 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:24 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 0.7% at $1.40, then ran from the open to the high of $2.14 in 10 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 8:21 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.44 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.39 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.40, up 0.7% from the previous close | |
| 9:40 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.14 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.46, 31.8% below the high |
The shape's name comes from a fixed rule, not a judgement (how shapes are named). Halts are in the halt table below.
The day in numbers
- Previous close
- $1.39
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.40
- Gap at the open
- +0.7%
- Pre-market high
- $1.44 at 8:21 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.14 at 9:40 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.28
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.46
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +5.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.55 at 4:48 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.40 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 47,863
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 0.4×
- Float
- 14.38 million shares, from filings as of October 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 14.41 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 58,883 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 1.48 million in the first 30 minutes (61%), and 906,426 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (37%).
- Other days JZ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on October 13, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it was in play on the intraday runners: up 30% or more on $3 million or more really traded, outside the small-cap rule's price, relative volume or float, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 a.m. | 9:35 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 20.0% | $1.72, up 2.4% | up 12.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
Halt bands that day: the LULD plan's Amendment 18 rules (what that means, LULD calculator).
How we read the data, name a day's shape and pick the stocks: methodology.
Trade this day
Replay JZ on October 14, 2026 in Hindsight Markets: the real tape, the order book and the halts, on a clock you control, and see where your orders would have filled.