Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 19, 2026
CDTG, August 19: seven halts, $8.33, and a $3.15 bid
CDTG opened down 11%, then ran to $8.33 through seven halts during the session.
What happened
The 2:21 push
The day before, CDTG ran to $8.48. On this afternoon, buy sweeps lifted it from $6.44 at 2:21.
Stop It's 2:32 p.m. CDTG is at $7.56. It has climbed from a $6.44 low at 2:21 and buyers have been sweeping the offers since 2:26. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:29 p.m. and stop at 2:32 p.m. ET for your call.
Two more sweeps took it to $8.33 that minute. By 2:34 it was back at $7.45.
Halt at $6.42
The slide brought a halt at 2:44:03. The 107K-share bid at $4.55 left two seconds later.
Stop It's 2:54 p.m. CDTG has been halted since 2:44 with the last trade at $6.42. Trading is about to resume. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:51 p.m. and stop at 2:54 p.m. ET for your call.
It reopened lower, at $6.01, and hit $5.30 the next minute.
The $3.15 bid
A bid at $3.15 grew as the stock kept falling.
Stop It's 3:29 p.m. CDTG is at $3.34, down from $8.33 at 2:32. A bid has been sitting at $3.15 since 3:11. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:26 p.m. and stop at 3:29 p.m. ET for your call.
Sellers ate all 105K shares in under a second. It was halted at 3:29:58 and closed at $3.03.
What to take from it: A big bid is not a floor: this one was eaten in under a second.
Replay CDTG's day
It starts at 11:59 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 12:02 p.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 down 11.0% at $2.92, then ran from the open to the high of $8.33 in 302 minutes through 5 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:49 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.29 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.92, down 11.0% from the previous close | |
| 10:25 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.28 | |
| 12:38 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.84 million shares | |
| 2:32 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.33 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.03, 63.6% 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
- $3.28
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.92
- Gap at the open
- −11.0%
- Pre-market high
- $3.29 at 4:49 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.33 at 2:32 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.53
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.03
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −7.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.13 at 7:53 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 17.33 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 350,816
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 15.8×
- Float
- 2.84 million shares, from filings as of August 19, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.02 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 140,923 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 75,793 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 17.47 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.84 million shares: past it once at 12:38 p.m., twice at 1:04 p.m., three times at 1:34 p.m.
- Other days CDTG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on September 4, 2026.
- The next session, August 20, 2026, it gapped up 18.8% at 9:30 a.m.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 (7)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:58 a.m. | 10:08 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 14.7% | $3.48, up 1.2% | unchanged | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:12 a.m. | 11:17 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 10.4% | $3.37, down 1.2% | up 9.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:07 p.m. | 12:12 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 14.9% | $4.38, up 1.6% | up 17.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:17 p.m. | 12:22 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 14.6% | $5.46, up 2.4% | down 11.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:24 p.m. | 12:34 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 8.8% | $4.66, down 4.1% | up 13.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:44 p.m. | 2:54 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 10.7% | $6.01, down 6.4% | down 14.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 3:29 p.m. | 3:34 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 17.2% | $3.13, down 0.3% | down 5.4% | 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
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