Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 10, 2026
STKH, August 10: a wall that kept moving down, three halts, and $7.10
STKH more than doubled at the open, ran to $7.10 through three halts, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
Walls before the open
With no news, STKH ran from a $1.88 close to $6.11 by 5:17 a.m. Then a 150K-share sell wall sat above the price five times, each lower. The last, at $4.90, was pulled at 9:29:03. The stock never traded into any of them.
It opened at $3.86. Halt #1 froze it at $4.93, and it reopened at $4.94.
Stop It's 9:46. STKH is at $4.89. It reopened from a halt at 9:42 and has traded between $4.50 and $5.03 since 9:44. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:43 a.m. and stop at 9:46 a.m. ET for your call.
Three halts in 21 minutes
One buy order swept 39K shares. Halt #2 hit at 9:47:48 at $6.29, with a 127K-share bid there. It reopened lower, and the bid was pulled a second later.
Halt #3 at 9:53:24 stopped it at $4.84. It reopened even lower, at $4.65.
Back from $5.00
It climbed from $5.00 to $6.14 by the end of the 10:15 minute.
Stop It's 10:16. STKH is at $6.15, up from $5.00 at 10:09. 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.
One order swept 87K shares. It topped at $7.10 that same 10:18 minute, then faded to close at $4.28.
What to take from it: On this day, big walls and bids were pulled, not traded.
Replay STKH's day
It starts at 9:28 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:31 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 105.3% to $3.86 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $7.10 in 48 minutes through 3 halts, then gave back 87% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $4.28, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:44 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.88 | |
| 5:17 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.11 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.86, up 105.3% from the previous close | |
| 10:18 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $7.10 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.28, 39.7% 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
- $1.88
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.86
- Gap at the open
- +105.3%
- Pre-market high
- $6.11 at 5:17 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.10 at 10:18 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.97
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.28
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +127.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.78 at 4:42 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 36.99 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 599,576
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 22.5×
- Float
- not available
- Shares outstanding
- not available
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 13.65 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (36%), 5.43 million in the first 30 minutes (14%), and 18.52 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (49%).
- Other days STKH met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 1, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, 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 (3)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:37 a.m. | 9:42 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 23.9% | $4.94, up 0.2% | up 18.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:47 a.m. | 9:52 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 19.8% | $6.05, down 3.8% | down 20.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:53 a.m. | 9:58 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 23.1% | $4.65, down 3.9% | up 6.0% | 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 STKH 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.