Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 5, 2026
ZYBT, August 5: a $2.00 bid, two halts, and $4.28
ZYBT opened near its previous close, then ran to $4.28 through two halts during the session.
What happened
A quiet first push
With no news, it opened at $1.26, hit $2.06 by 10:11, then faded to $1.44.
The $2.00 bid and halt one
The second push brought a big bid at $2.00, under the price. At 11:11:55 it was halted at $2.44.
Stop It's 11:21. ZYBT is about to reopen from a halt. It stopped at $2.44. A large bid sits at $2.00, well below. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:18 a.m. and stop at 11:21 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at $2.80 and ran to $3.38. The $2.00 bid peaked near 95K shares, then was pulled at 11:23:04 without trading.
Halt two and a $4.00 wall
A $4.00 ask wall appeared above the price at 11:24. At 11:28:51 it was halted again at $3.84.
Stop It's 11:33. ZYBT reopens from its second halt, which stopped at $3.84. A large ask wall sits at $4.00. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:30 a.m. and stop at 11:33 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened lower, at $3.53. The $4.00 wall was traded through in under a second, and the high was $4.28 in the 11:36 minute. It closed at $2.35.
What to take from it: A big bid on the book can be pulled before it ever trades.
Replay ZYBT's day
It starts at 11:05 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 11:08 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 2.3% at $1.26, then ran from the open to the high of $4.28 in 126 minutes through two halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:02 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.26 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.26, down 2.3% from the previous close | |
| 9:55 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.29 | |
| 11:24 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 5.62 million shares | |
| 11:36 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.28 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.35, 45.1% 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
- $1.29
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.26
- Gap at the open
- −2.3%
- Pre-market high
- $1.26 at 4:02 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.28 at 11:36 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.24
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.35
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +82.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.39 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 25.48 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 783,397
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 4.5×
- Float
- 5.62 million shares, from filings as of August 5, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 47.39 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3,265 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 416,818 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 25.84 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 5.62 million shares: past it once at 11:24 a.m., twice at 11:48 a.m., three times at 12:40 p.m.
- Other days ZYBT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 9, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:11 a.m. | 11:21 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 34.8% | $2.80, up 14.8% | up 8.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:28 a.m. | 11:33 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 20.0% | $3.53, down 8.1% | up 6.2% | 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
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