Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 7, 2026
ZYBT, August 7: the $2.98 wall, one halt, and $3.59
ZYBT opened up 14%, ran to $3.59 through one halt, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Old news, a fast climb
There was no fresh headline on the 7th; a compliance notice came the day before. ZYBT opened at $2.38, up 14% from the $2.09 close.
Stop It's 9:51. ZYBT is at $2.82 and has climbed from $2.33 in under ten minutes. A big block of shares is offered at exactly $2.98, just above. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:48 a.m. and stop at 9:51 a.m. ET for your call.
The wall breaks
Here's what happened. At 9:52:07, 28K shares traded at $2.98 in under a second, and the wall was gone.
A minute later it hit $3.59. One sell order of 101K shares pushed it to $3.37. Within two minutes it was at $2.50.
Halt and the $2.50 bid
At 9:55:38 it was halted at $2.50. During the halt a 46K-share bid built at that price.
Stop It's 10:00. ZYBT has been halted since 9:55 with the last trade at $2.50, down from $3.59. About 45,000 shares are bid at $2.50 and the stock is about to reopen. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:57 a.m. and stop at 10:00 a.m. ET for your call.
Here's what happened. It reopened at 10:00:38 at $2.50.
It bounced to a lower high of $2.91. At 10:06 the $2.50 bid was eaten in about four seconds. It slid to $1.66 and closed at $1.89.
What to take from it: A wall that breaks in a second can lift the price, and the move can reverse just as fast.
Replay ZYBT's day
It starts at 9:34 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:37 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 and fade. It gapped up 13.9% to $2.38 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $3.59 in 23 minutes, then gave back 142% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.87, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:17 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.09 | |
| 5:02 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.67 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.38, up 13.9% from the previous close | |
| 9:53 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.59 | |
| 3:10 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 5.62 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.87, 47.9% 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
- $2.09
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.38
- Gap at the open
- +13.9%
- Pre-market high
- $2.67 at 5:02 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.59 at 9:53 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.66
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.87
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −10.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.89 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.73 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 82,582
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 0.8×
- Float
- 5.62 million shares, from filings as of August 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 47.39 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.47 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (25%), 2.21 million in the first 30 minutes (38%), and 2.14 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (37%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 5.62 million shares: past it once at 3:10 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 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:55 a.m. | 10:00 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 11.7% | $2.50, unchanged | up 10.0% | 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 ZYBT 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.