Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 7, 2026
HUIZ, August 7: a $2.09 bid eaten in 1.5 seconds, seven halts, and $2.93
HUIZ opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.93 through seven halts during the session.
What happened
Quiet, then a run
No news came out. It sat near $1.18 until noon, then ran. At 12:47:35 it was halted at $1.96.
It reopened at $2.40 and hit $2.88. Two quick halts followed, with big bids at $2.09 and $2.02.
The $2.09 bid
Stop It's 1:18 p.m. HUIZ has been halted since 1:08, with the last trade at $2.29. It was at $2.88 sixteen minutes ago. Large bids at $2.09 and $2.02 sit below, and a large ask at $2.29 sits above. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:15 p.m. and stop at 1:18 p.m. ET for your call.
Sellers ate the 74K-share $2.09 bid in 1.5 seconds. It touched $1.99, then rallied to $2.67 and halted.
The 1:29 reopen
Stop It's 1:29 p.m. HUIZ has been halted since 1:19, with the last trade at $2.67. That is more than double the $1.22 previous close. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:26 p.m. and stop at 1:29 p.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at $2.92 and hit $2.93. Sell orders pushed it to $2.34, and it halted.
Stop It's 1:39 p.m. HUIZ has been halted since 1:29, with the last trade at $2.34. The high so far was $2.93 ten minutes ago. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:36 p.m. and stop at 1:39 p.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at $1.90 and hit $1.27 by 1:40. It closed at $1.68.
What to take from it: A big bid did not hold: the $2.09 wall broke in 1.5 seconds.
Replay HUIZ's day
It starts at 12:33 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 12:36 p.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 3.3% at $1.18, then ran from the open to the high of $2.93 in 239 minutes through 4 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 5:25 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.23 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.18, down 3.3% from the previous close | |
| 12:18 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.22 | |
| 1:29 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.93 | |
| 2:25 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 7.67 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.68, 42.7% 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
- $1.22
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.18
- Gap at the open
- −3.3%
- Pre-market high
- $1.23 at 5:25 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.93 at 1:29 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.05
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.68
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +37.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.71 at 4:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 13.49 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 623,140
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 7.67 million shares, from filings as of August 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.11 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 456 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 697 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 14.11 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 7.67 million shares: past it once at 2:25 p.m.
- Other days HUIZ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 20, 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 (7)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:47 p.m. | 1:02 p.m. | 14 min 48 s | up 33.3% | $2.40, up 22.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 1:02 p.m. | 1:07 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 46.9% | $2.86, down 0.7% | down 19.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:08 p.m. | 1:18 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 20.5% | $2.15, down 6.1% | up 24.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:19 p.m. | 1:29 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 16.6% | $2.92, up 9.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 1:29 p.m. | 1:39 p.m. | 10 min 6 s | down 12.4% | $1.90, down 18.8% | down 5.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:51 p.m. | 1:56 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 27.5% | $1.44, up 5.1% | up 9.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:37 p.m. | 2:42 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 27.9% | $2.11, down 7.9% | up 3.8% | 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 HUIZ 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.