Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 19, 2026
SKK, August 19: an 8:05 headline, 12 halts, and $8.81
SKK opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $8.81 through twelve halts during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Headline, then a fade
The 8:05 contract headline sent SKK from $4.96 to $7.44 by 8:06. It didn't hold. By 8:14 it was $3.76, under the $4.57 close.
Halts and the $8.00 wall
The open brought five halts by 10:16. Then buyers ate a 36K-share ask wall at $8.00 in 10.6 seconds. It was gone at 10:27:56.
Stop It's 10:29. SKK is at $7.49. A minute ago it traded as high as $8.24, just after an ask wall at $8.00 was eaten. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:26 a.m. and stop at 10:29 a.m. ET for your call.
It ran to $8.81, the high, that minute. Then each push stopped lower, and halt reopens slid to $5.21.
The afternoon
Stop It's 1:26 p.m. SKK is at $5.95. It has traded between $5.53 and $5.96 since 1:00, on thin volume. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:23 p.m. and stop at 1:26 p.m. ET for your call.
It ran to $6.46, below a 41K-share ask wall at $6.50. At 1:31:56 it was halted, then reopened lower at $5.32.
It closed at $5.80, 34% under the high, after 12 halts.
What to take from it: Every push after the top stopped lower, and buying right after a reopen cost more than the screen showed.
Replay SKK's day
It starts at 9:31 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:34 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 5.7% at $4.83, then ran from the open to the high of $8.81 in 59 minutes through 5 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 8:05 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): SKK Holdings Awarded Six New Horizontal Directional Drilling and Utility Works Contracts in Singapore Valued at Up to US$26.6 Million (S$34.1 Million) | |
| 8:05 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.57 | |
| 8:06 a.m. | Pre-market high, $7.44 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.83, up 5.7% from the previous close | |
| 10:29 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.81 | |
| 10:55 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.88 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.80, 34.2% 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
- $4.57
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.83
- Gap at the open
- +5.7%
- Pre-market high
- $7.44 at 8:06 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.81 at 10:29 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.76
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.80
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +26.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.98 at 7:41 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.91 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 49,592
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 2.88 million shares, from filings as of August 19, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.96 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 8:05 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.41 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (36%), 158,266 in the first 30 minutes (4%), and 2.40 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (60%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.88 million shares: past it once at 10:55 a.m.
- Other days SKK met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 12, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 (12)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:39 a.m. | 9:49 a.m. | 10 min 1 s | up 14.7% | $6.00, up 11.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 9:49 a.m. | 9:59 a.m. | 10 min 1 s | up 22.9% | $7.42, up 12.4% | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:00 a.m. | 10:05 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 23.6% | $7.00, down 14.2% | down 7.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:06 a.m. | 10:16 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 20.8% | $6.00, down 7.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 10:16 a.m. | 10:27 a.m. | 10 min 30 s | up 2.2% | $7.50, up 13.6% | up 4.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:33 a.m. | 10:43 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 2.9% | $7.00, down 3.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 10:43 a.m. | 10:48 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.5% | $6.06, down 3.8% | down 10.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:49 a.m. | 10:54 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.5% | $5.21, down 4.4% | up 15.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:59 a.m. | 11:04 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 11.9% | $6.00, down 0.3% | down 12.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:03 p.m. | 12:08 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.2% | $5.21, up 0.2% | up 5.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:31 p.m. | 1:36 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.3% | $5.32, down 4.1% | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:37 p.m. | 1:42 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 5.4% | $5.85, unchanged | down 3.1% | 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
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