Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 5, 2026
JDZG, August 5: three halts, $5.17, and what a real fill cost at two reopens
JDZG opened up 14%, ran to $5.17 through three halts, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
A pre-market spike
JDZG ran before the bell. It went from a $3.23 close to $5.05 by 4:52 a.m., then fell to $3.07 five minutes later. It opened at $3.67.
The first halt
The 9:37 minute jumped, and at 9:37:50 it was halted at $4.16.
Stop It's 9:47. JDZG has been halted for more than nine minutes after its last trade at $4.16. It is still paused, with a reopen pending. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:44 a.m. and stop at 9:47 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at 9:47:51 at $4.75 and topped at $5.17 that minute. Seconds later a 13K-share sell swept it down to $4.28.
Thin reopens
Halt #2 hit at 9:49:31. It reopened 4% lower.
By 9:58 it was $3.58.
Stop It's 10:04. JDZG is at $3.82 and has climbed from $3.58 in the last six minutes. It has been halted twice already this morning. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:01 a.m. and stop at 10:04 a.m. ET for your call.
At 10:04:59 it was halted a third time at $4.08. Right after the reopen, a 5,000-share buy cost $785 over the screen. It hit $3.70 a minute later. The 3:59 p.m. minute closed at $3.65, 29% below the high.
What to take from it: On this day, the halt reopens were thin, and buying them cost far more than the screen showed.
Replay JDZG's day
It starts at 9:29 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:32 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 13.6% to $3.67 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $5.17 in 17 minutes through a halt, then gave back 101% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $3.65, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:50 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.23 | |
| 4:52 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.05 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.67, up 13.6% from the previous close | |
| 9:47 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.17 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.65, 29.4% 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
- $3.23
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.67
- Gap at the open
- +13.6%
- Pre-market high
- $5.05 at 4:52 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.17 at 9:47 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.07
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.65
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +13.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.82 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.44 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 26,700
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 19.7×
- Float
- 5.14 million shares, from filings as of August 5, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 5.43 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 933,208 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (64%), 248,110 in the first 30 minutes (17%), and 286,461 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (20%).
- Other days JDZG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 30, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 (3)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:37 a.m. | 9:47 a.m. | 10 min 1 s | up 12.7% | $4.75, up 14.2% | down 12.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:49 a.m. | 9:54 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | unchanged | $4.01, down 3.6% | down 6.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:04 a.m. | 10:09 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 12.1% | $4.06, down 0.5% | down 2.7% | 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 JDZG on August 5, 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.