Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 29, 2026
NCPL, October 29: a wall at $1.75, a spike to $1.96, and $2.22 after hours
NCPL opened up 44%, ran to $1.88, then gave back some of the run by the close.
What happened
A pre-market push and one wild minute
NCPL gapped well above its $1.10 previous close. It pushed to $1.76 at 7:51 a.m., on 320K shares that minute. At 8:07 the 8:07 bar printed $1.96, but it closed at $1.63. A 5,000-share buy at 8:07:37 averaged $1.64, the same as the screen. By the open the pre-market volume was 5.7M, about 83% of the 6.9M float.
The wall at $1.75
An ask wall at $1.75 appeared at 7:51 and grew to 111K shares, about 1.6% of the float, by 9:53.
Stop It's 11:43. NCPL is at $1.72. An ask wall at $1.75 has been up since 7:51 a.m. and reached 111K shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:40 a.m. and stop at 11:43 a.m. ET for your call.
At 11:43:06 a buyer swept 94K shares from $1.73 to $1.75. 57K shares traded at exactly $1.75 in under a second and the wall was gone. It was eaten, not pulled.
Fading, then a late run
The regular-session high was $1.88 at 12:00 p.m., below the $1.96 spike. Sellers swept 66K shares through $1.76 at 13:52 and 70K more about a minute later, taking it to $1.67. The last regular-session bar closed at $1.78, with 9.8M shares traded. After hours it ran to $2.22 at 4:59 p.m.
What to take from it: The $1.75 wall was eaten in under a second once buyers came, and the regular-session high of $1.88 stayed below the 8:07 spike.
Replay NCPL's day
It starts at 7:33 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 7:36 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
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 43.6% to $1.58 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.88 in 150 minutes, then gave back 35% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.77, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.10 | |
| 8:07 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.96 | |
| 8:07 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.96 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.58, up 43.6% from the previous close | |
| 9:41 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 6.88 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.77, 9.4% 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
- $1.10
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.58
- Gap at the open
- +43.6%
- Pre-market high
- $1.96 at 8:07 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.96 at 8:07 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.36
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.77
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +61.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.22 at 4:59 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 15.50 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.64 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 4.0×
- Float
- 6.88 million shares, from filings as of October 29, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.02 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 5.69 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (28%), 2.22 million in the first 30 minutes (11%), and 12.24 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (61%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 6.88 million shares: past it once at 9:41 a.m., twice at 1:52 p.m.
- Other days NCPL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 18, the latest on October 30, 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 NCPL 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 NCPL on October 29, 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.