Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 7, 2026
ATGL, August 7: eleven halts and $27.00
ATGL opened near its previous close, then ran to $27.00 through eleven halts during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $7.88. It ran to $27.00 by 11:54 a.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it eleven times, from 10:37 a.m. to 1:08 p.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 11:01 a.m.: 20% above the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $8.35, 69% 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 up 5.2% at $7.88, then ran from the open to the high of $27.00 in 144 minutes through 5 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $7.88, up 5.2% from the previous close |
| 10:52 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $7.49 |
| 11:54 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $27.00 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $8.35, 69.1% 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
- $7.49
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $7.88
- Gap at the open
- +5.2%
- Pre-market high
- not available
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $27.00 at 11:54 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.50
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $8.35
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +11.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $8.95 at 4:03 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 422,849
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 10,256
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 1.48 million shares, from filings as of August 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 15.26 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 0 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 13 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 433,092 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days ATGL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 21, 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 (11)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:37 a.m. | 10:52 a.m. | 15 min 0 s | up 9.8% | $9.84, up 18.7% | up 1.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 11:01 a.m. | 11:21 a.m. | 20 min 0 s | up 18.6% | $14.28, up 20.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:21 a.m. | 11:33 a.m. | 11 min 33 s | up 32.5% | $18.04, up 14.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:33 a.m. | 11:48 a.m. | 15 min 19 s | up 26.3% | $23.80, up 20.0% | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 11:49 a.m. | 11:54 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 32.0% | $26.97, up 3.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:54 a.m. | 12:06 p.m. | 12 min 3 s | down 5.8% | $21.01, down 14.8% | up 5.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:07 p.m. | 12:12 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 10.4% | $19.01, down 14.0% | down 3.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:25 p.m. | 12:30 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 13.5% | $17.80, down 7.7% | down 11.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:32 p.m. | 12:42 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 18.7% | $14.51, down 7.5% | down 8.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:44 p.m. | 12:49 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 15.4% | $13.28, unchanged | down 0.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:08 p.m. | 1:13 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 11.3% | $11.12, up 2.3% | down 11.2% | 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.
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