Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 10, 2026
ARTW, August 10: a 2:00 p.m. headline, a $4.19 wall, and $4.03
ARTW opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $4.03 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
A 2:00 p.m. headline
ARTW barely traded before 2:00 p.m., about 7,300 shares. Then Accesswire ran news of a bigger backlog. That minute alone traded 37K shares. By 2:12 it was at $3.22.
A wall at $4.19
Here the ask wall sat above the price. It reached 25K shares at $4.19, then was pulled at 2:24:41. A 24K-share bid sat at $3.45. The 2:25 high was $3.91.
Stop It's 2:27. ARTW is at $3.77, under the $3.91 high of 2:25. The $4.19 ask wall was pulled at 2:24:41. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:24 p.m. and stop at 2:27 p.m. ET for your call.
The $3.45 bid was pulled at 2:27:01. Seconds later a 51K-share sell order drove it to $3.27.
The 2:38 push
Stop It's 2:39. ARTW is at $3.87 after a strong 2:38 minute. It's up from $3.31 four minutes ago. Would you chase it here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:36 p.m. and stop at 2:39 p.m. ET for your call.
A 48K-share buy at 2:39:07 swept it to $4.03, the day's high. Within four minutes it was $3.44.
Each bounce stopped lower. It closed at $2.87, 29% under the high.
What to take from it: The run topped below the wall, and chasing the high cost more than the screen showed.
Replay ARTW's day
It starts at 2:00 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 2:03 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 up 0.5% at $2.17, then ran from the open to the high of $4.03 in 309 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.17, up 0.5% from the previous close | |
| 2:00 p.m. | News (Accesswire): Art's Way Announces Significant Increase in Backlog Following Award of Major Modular Building Projects | |
| 2:04 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.16 | |
| 2:19 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.58 million shares | |
| 2:39 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.03 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.87, 28.8% 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
- $2.16
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.17
- Gap at the open
- +0.5%
- Pre-market high
- not available
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.03 at 2:39 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.15
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.87
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +32.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.87 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 13.68 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 351,675
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 924.4×
- Float
- 2.58 million shares, from filings as of August 10, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 5.20 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 4 minutes after the latest news item before it (Accesswire, 2:00 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 0 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,010 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 14.03 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.58 million shares: past it once at 2:19 p.m., twice at 2:26 p.m., three times at 2:35 p.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day ARTW met the small-cap rule.
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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for ARTW 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 ARTW on August 10, 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.