Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 15, 2026
XLAB, October 15: a run to $1.45
XLAB opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.45 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.24, on 2.6M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $0.84. It ran to $1.45 by 3:47 p.m.
The close
It closed at $1.36, 6% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened down 5.5% at $0.84, then ran from the open to the high of $1.45 in 377 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:23 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.889 |
| 7:24 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.24 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.84, down 5.5% from the previous close |
| 3:47 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.45 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.36, 6.2% 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
- $0.889
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.84
- Gap at the open
- −5.5%
- Pre-market high
- $1.24 at 7:24 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.45 at 3:47 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.71
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.36
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +53.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.63 at 5:08 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.90 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.31 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 157.8×
- Float
- 21.86 million shares, from filings as of October 15, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 64.33 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2.65 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (43%), 82,468 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 3.48 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (56%).
- Other days XLAB met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 22, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for XLAB that day.
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
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