Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 14, 2026
BOXL, August 14: a gap that faded
BOXL opened up 31%, then faded below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $12.70, on 1.2M shares.
The open
It opened up 31%, at $8.88.
The close
It closed at $6.95, 45% under its high.
What to take from it: A big gap is not a trend. This one traded below its open by the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and fade. It gapped up 30.6% to $8.88 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $6.95.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:01 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $6.80 |
| 4:14 a.m. | Pre-market high, $12.70 |
| 4:14 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $12.70 |
| 4:46 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 564,658 shares |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $8.88, up 30.6% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $6.95, 45.3% 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
- $6.80
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $8.88
- Gap at the open
- +30.6%
- Pre-market high
- $12.70 at 4:14 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $12.70 at 4:14 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.94
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $6.95
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +2.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $7.41 at 4:02 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.88 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 37,242
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 1.2×
- Float
- 564,658 shares, from filings as of August 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 667,393
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.23 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (64%), 253,515 in the first 30 minutes (13%), and 436,602 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (23%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 564,658 shares: past it once at 4:46 a.m., twice at 8:07 a.m., three times at 12:41 p.m.
- Other days BOXL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 12, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for BOXL 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.
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