Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 7, 2026
CELZ, August 7: $1.47 open, $1.93 high, $1.44 close
CELZ opened up 27%, ran to $1.93, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
Patent news, fast open
A patent notice the day before set up this run. CELZ opened at $1.47, up 27% from the $1.16 close. It hit $1.89 in the 9:33 minute on 1M shares. An ask wall had sat at $2.00 since 9:31:51.
Stop It's 9:36. CELZ is at $1.79, up from the $1.47 open six minutes ago. A big ask wall has been sitting at $2.00 since 9:31. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:33 a.m. and stop at 9:36 a.m. ET for your call.
The top at $1.93
The top came that minute. At 9:36:23 one 129K-share buy order ran from $1.85 to $1.93, 7 cents under the wall.
The $1.55 bid
Here a big bid looked like support. It showed up at $1.55 at 10:14:23.
Stop It's 10:16. CELZ is at $1.57, up from the $1.42 low at 9:50. A big bid has been sitting at $1.55 since 10:14. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:13 a.m. and stop at 10:16 a.m. ET for your call.
The bid grew to 190K shares, and the stock reached $1.67. At 10:18:44 the bid was pulled. Seconds later an 82K-share sell order hit. By 10:32 it was at $1.53.
The close
The fade went on. It closed at $1.44, about a quarter below the high.
What to take from it: A big bid on the screen can vanish, and this run stopped short of the $2.00 wall.
Replay CELZ's day
It starts at 9:18 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:21 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 26.7% to $1.47 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.93 in 6 minutes, then gave back 108% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.44, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:03 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.16 | |
| 9:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.50 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.47, up 26.7% from the previous close | |
| 9:36 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.93 | |
| 9:37 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 6.56 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.44, 25.6% 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
- $1.16
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.47
- Gap at the open
- +26.7%
- Pre-market high
- $1.50 at 9:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.93 at 9:36 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.19
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.44
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +23.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.42 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 19.13 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 370,873
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 3.1×
- Float
- 6.56 million shares, from filings as of August 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 6.59 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2.47 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (13%), 8.70 million in the first 30 minutes (45%), and 8.32 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (43%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 6.56 million shares: past it once at 9:37 a.m., twice at 10:29 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for CELZ 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.
Trade this day
Replay CELZ on August 7, 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.