Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 10, 2026
XHLD, August 10: one halt and $4.69
XHLD opened up 46%, ran to $4.69 through one halt, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
A gapper at the open
XHLD ran to $3.80 on August 7 and closed at $2.02. It opened today at $2.95, up 46%, but it stayed stuck near $3 after the open.
Stop It's 9:45. XHLD is at $3.13. The pre-market high of $3.55 is about 42 cents above, and the stock has been stuck near $3 since the open. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:42 a.m. and stop at 9:45 a.m. ET for your call.
The breakout and a halt
It broke out. It cleared the $3.55 pre-market high at 9:45 and hit $3.76. A volatility pause halted it at 9:46:22. It reopened at 9:51:22 at $3.50.
Stop It's 9:52. XHLD is at $4.04. It reopened from its halt a minute ago at $3.50. The halt stopped at $3.76. Would you chase it here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:49 a.m. and stop at 9:52 a.m. ET for your call.
It kept running. At 9:53 it hit $4.69, the high of the day. By 9:55 it was back at $3.65.
The fade
Every later push stopped lower. It reached $4.31 at 11:13, then fell to $2.79 by 11:38. It closed at $3.11. The company's results came out after the close.
What to take from it: After the $4.69 top, each push stopped lower and the move faded.
Replay XHLD'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, gave some back. It gapped up 46.0% to $2.95 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $4.69 in 23 minutes through a halt, then gave back 91% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $3.11, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.02 | |
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.55 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.95, up 46.0% from the previous close | |
| 9:53 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.69 | |
| 11:08 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 11.90 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.11, 33.7% 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
- $2.02
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.95
- Gap at the open
- +46.0%
- Pre-market high
- $3.55 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.69 at 9:53 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.48
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.11
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +54.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.25 at 6:22 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 20.34 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 185,392
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 8.9×
- Float
- 11.90 million shares, from filings as of August 10, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 11.98 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2.95 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (14%), 4.49 million in the first 30 minutes (22%), and 13.07 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (64%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 11.90 million shares: past it once at 11:08 a.m.
- Other days XHLD met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on August 17, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:46 a.m. | 9:51 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 24.5% | $3.50, down 6.9% | up 9.1% | 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 XHLD 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.