Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 12, 2026
BIVI, August 12: three halts, a $3.00 bid, and $3.79
BIVI opened near its previous close, then ran to $3.79 through three halts during the session.
What happened
No news, fast run
BIVI had no news before the open. It opened at $1.35 and climbed fast. At 9:47 it was halted at $2.36. After the reopen it hit $2.95.
The $3.00 bid
From 10:30:47, a big bid sat at exactly $3.00 under the price. It peaked at 68K shares.
Stop It's 10:42. BIVI is at $3.52, up from $3.45 a minute ago. A bid wall that peaked at 68,492 shares sits at $3.00. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:39 a.m. and stop at 10:42 a.m. ET for your call.
It hit $3.79 that minute, then fell. At 10:45:16 sellers hit the $3.00 bid. It was gone in under a second.
The 11:13 halt
At 11:06 it pushed to $3.40, below $3.79. Then it slid to $2.12 by 11:12.
Stop It's 11:18. BIVI has been halted since 11:13 with the last trade at $2.12. It was $3.25 at 11:07. Trading is about to resume. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:15 a.m. and stop at 11:18 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened 3% lower at $2.06. At 11:18:56 it was halted again, at $1.49. The low after the open, $1.31, came right after that reopen.
The close
It closed at $1.54, 59% under the high, on 42M shares.
What to take from it: The $3.00 bid held for 14 minutes, then broke in under a second once sellers hit it.
Replay BIVI's day
It starts at 9:35 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:38 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
Intraday run. It opened up 6.3% at $1.35, then ran from the open to the high of $3.79 in 72 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.48 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.35, up 6.3% from the previous close | |
| 9:36 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.27 | |
| 10:03 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 7.29 million shares | |
| 10:42 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.79 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.54, 59.2% 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
- $1.27
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.35
- Gap at the open
- +6.3%
- Pre-market high
- $1.48 at 9:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.79 at 10:42 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.23
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.54
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +21.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.45 at 6:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 42.26 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.75 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 110.4×
- Float
- 7.29 million shares, from filings as of August 12, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 7.54 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 62,372 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 5.38 million in the first 30 minutes (12%), and 40.56 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (88%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 7.29 million shares: past it once at 10:03 a.m., twice at 10:16 a.m., three times at 10:38 a.m.
- Other days BIVI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on November 3, 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:47 a.m. | 9:52 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 41.3% | $2.36, unchanged | up 3.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:13 a.m. | 11:18 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 28.4% | $2.06, down 2.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 11:18 a.m. | 11:23 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 29.7% | $1.49, unchanged | up 24.8% | 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 BIVI on August 12, 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.