Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on November 3, 2026
CRE, November 3: news and $3.46
CRE opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $2.65 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 8:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $3.46, on 1.2M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.38. It ran to $2.65 by 3:07 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.64, 24% 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 5.2% at $2.38, then ran from the open to the high of $2.65 in 337 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Cre8 Enterprise Limited Completes Acquisition of a Hong Kong-Based Translation Firm |
| 8:16 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.51 |
| 8:17 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.46 |
| 8:17 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.46 |
| 8:52 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.10 million shares |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.38, down 5.2% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.64, 23.7% 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
- $2.51
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.38
- Gap at the open
- −5.2%
- Pre-market high
- $3.46 at 8:17 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.46 at 8:17 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.20
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.64
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +5.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.73 at 6:02 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.38 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 35,516
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 21.6×
- Float
- 1.10 million shares, from filings as of November 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.01 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 16 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 8:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.19 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (84%), 83,289 in the first 30 minutes (6%), and 144,389 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (10%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.10 million shares: past it once at 8:52 a.m.
- Other days CRE met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 8, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: price $2 to $20, up 10% or more, relative volume 5× or more, float under 20 million shares, 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 CRE 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.
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