Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 14, 2026
MF, August 14: four halts and $26.96
MF opened up 32%, ran to $19.63 through four halts, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $26.96, on 331K shares.
The open
It opened up 32%, at $13.24. It ran to $19.63 by 10:20 a.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it four times, from 9:31 a.m. to 10:54 a.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 9:42 a.m.: 10% below the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $13.00, 52% under its high.
What to take from it: The high came early. Most of the run was gone by the close, so the move was in the morning, not the hold.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 32.4% to $13.24 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $19.63 in 50 minutes through 3 halts, then gave back 104% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $13.00, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:15 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $10.00 |
| 9:15 a.m. | Pre-market high, $26.96 |
| 9:15 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $26.96 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $13.24, up 32.4% from the previous close |
| 10:59 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.51 million shares |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $13.00, 51.8% 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
- $10.00
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $13.24
- Gap at the open
- +32.4%
- Pre-market high
- $26.96 at 9:15 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $26.96 at 9:15 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $10.00
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $13.00
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +30.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $13.12 at 5:18 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.42 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 19,025
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 14.3×
- Float
- 1.51 million shares, from filings as of August 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.51 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 331,140 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (14%), 328,964 in the first 30 minutes (13%), and 1.78 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (73%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.51 million shares: past it once at 10:59 a.m.
- Other days MF met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 20, 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 (4)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:31 a.m. | 9:41 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 4.0% | $14.84, up 4.6% | down 0.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:42 a.m. | 9:52 a.m. | 10 min 1 s | up 4.2% | $13.32, down 9.9% | down 5.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:02 a.m. | 10:12 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 18.2% | $16.60, up 7.9% | up 5.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:54 a.m. | 10:59 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 19.1% | $12.90, up 0.2% | down 3.9% | 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.
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