Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 6, 2026
CELZ, August 6: a 9:15 headline, three halts, and $1.75
CELZ opened up 73%, ran to $1.75 through three halts, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
News, then the open
The patent headline hit at 9:15 a.m. with CELZ near $1.19. It opened at $1.16, then slid to $1.01 by 9:47.
Stop It's 10:50. CELZ is at $1.27. The pre-market high of $1.37 is just above. The last minute traded more than a million shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:47 a.m. and stop at 10:50 a.m. ET for your call.
Here's what happened. It cleared $1.37 and hit $1.40. At 10:50:59 it was halted. A 486K-share bid at $1.40 was pulled during the halt.
The first reopen
It reopened at 10:55:59 at $1.45, above where it stopped.
Stop It's 10:56. CELZ is at $1.46. It has just reopened from its first halt, which stopped it at $1.40. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:53 a.m. and stop at 10:56 a.m. ET for your call.
Here's what happened. It ran to $1.60 and was halted again at 10:56:27. It reopened at 11:01:27 at $1.69 and touched $1.75, the day's high. A 478K-share bid at $1.60 was eaten in 10 seconds.
The fade
A 497K-share offer at $1.49 sat as the third halt hit at 11:02:14. It was pulled during the halt. The stock reopened lower at $1.45.
It pushed to $1.65 at 1:53 p.m., below the top. It closed at $1.15, 34% under the high.
What to take from it: The walls at the halts did not last: two were pulled during halts and one was eaten in seconds.
Replay CELZ's day
It starts at 10:38 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:41 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 73.4% to $1.16 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.75 in 91 minutes through two halts, then gave back 102% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.15, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.6688 | |
| 5:58 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 6.56 million shares | |
| 8:03 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.37 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.16, up 73.4% from the previous close | |
| 11:01 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.75 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.15, 34.3% 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
- $0.6688
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.16
- Gap at the open
- +73.4%
- Pre-market high
- $1.37 at 8:03 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.75 at 11:01 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.7802
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.15
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +71.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.55 at 4:53 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 98.54 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 6.17 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 97.8×
- Float
- 6.56 million shares, from filings as of August 6, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 6.59 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 42.07 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (40%), 6.64 million in the first 30 minutes (6%), and 56.00 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (53%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 6.56 million shares: past it once at 5:58 a.m., twice at 7:37 a.m., three times at 7:48 a.m.
- Other days CELZ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on September 21, 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:50 a.m. | 10:55 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 16.7% | $1.45, up 3.6% | up 10.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:56 a.m. | 11:01 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 14.3% | $1.69, up 5.6% | down 11.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:02 a.m. | 11:07 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 6.9% | $1.45, down 2.7% | down 0.7% | 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 CELZ on August 6, 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.