Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 20, 2026
YMAT, October 20: $2.81 at 9:13, then back to $1.80
YMAT opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.10 during the session.
What happened
A quiet morning, then a spike
News came out the day before (8:30 a.m. on October 19), and YMAT sat near $1.80 for hours. At 9:05 the volume picked up. The float is 2.7M shares.
Ask walls in the way
Sellers stacked offers above the price, each 1.2% to 1.9% of the float, at $2.30, $2.50, $2.53 and $2.60.
Stop It's 9:12. YMAT is at $2.20. It was $1.79 at 8:59, and a large offer (up to 45K shares) sits at $2.30. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:09 a.m. and stop at 9:12 a.m. ET for your call.
The $2.30 wall was eaten at 9:12:16. At 9:13 the stock reached $2.81 on 747K shares in that one minute. A 51K-share offer at $2.50 was eaten at 9:13:07, and the $2.60 offer was pulled at 9:13:12.
The top, then the slide
After $2.81 it was back at $2.34 by the end of that minute. It pushed again to $2.69 at 9:15, a lower high. A 33K-share bid at $1.87 held until 9:22, then 49K shares traded there in nine seconds and it was gone.
Stop It's 9:30. YMAT opens at $1.80. It was $2.81 at 9:13 and the previous close was $1.83. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:27 a.m. and stop at 9:30 a.m. ET for your call.
It slid to $1.65 at 9:39, drifted near $1.90 through the morning, and closed at $2.01, 28% under the high.
What to take from it: YMAT's spike was over in minutes: ask walls broke on the way up, but the bid at $1.87 broke on the way down.
Replay YMAT's day
It starts at 8:54 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 8:57 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 down 1.6% at $1.80, then ran from the open to the high of $2.10 in 160 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:07 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.83 | |
| 9:13 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.81 | |
| 9:13 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.81 | |
| 9:14 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.70 million shares | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.80, down 1.6% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.00, 28.6% 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
- $1.83
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.80
- Gap at the open
- −1.6%
- Pre-market high
- $2.81 at 9:13 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.81 at 9:13 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.65
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.00
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +9.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.25 at 6:06 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.56 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 187,046
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 1.0×
- Float
- 2.70 million shares, from filings as of October 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.01 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4.43 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (77%), 327,236 in the first 30 minutes (6%), and 988,598 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (17%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.70 million shares: past it once at 9:14 a.m., twice at 12:41 p.m.
- Other days YMAT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, the latest on October 26, 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 YMAT 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
Replay YMAT on October 20, 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.