Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 20, 2026
NXTT, August 20: a slow morning, two halts, and $13.21
NXTT opened near its previous close, then ran to $13.21 through two halts during the session.
What happened
The run into the halt
NXTT drifted near $7 all morning on small volume. Then it ran, and big bids sat under the climb before each was pulled. A 27K-share bid at $7.00 was pulled at 12:49:07. A 20K-share bid at $8.00 went at 12:57:25. At 12:58:34, with the last trade at $11.12, it was halted for ten minutes.
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The reopen was the top
This reopen marked the top. At 1:08:34 it opened at $12.05, 8% above the halt price. The day's high of $13.21 came that same minute.
Within three minutes it traded below the reopen price.
Second halt, then the fade
The second halt opened lower. It stopped at 1:16:58 at $10.06 and reopened at $9.69, 4% down. It fell to $8.04 by 1:28. It closed at $8.00, on 1.83M shares, about 1.25 times the float.
What to take from it: On NXTT the first reopen was the top, and a real buy paid more than the screen price.
Replay NXTT's day
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The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened down 1.5% at $6.54, then ran from the open to the high of $13.21 in 218 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.86 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $6.54, down 1.5% from the previous close | |
| 12:02 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $6.64 | |
| 1:08 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $13.21 | |
| 1:33 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.47 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $8.00, 39.4% 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
- $6.64
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $6.54
- Gap at the open
- −1.5%
- Pre-market high
- $6.86 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $13.21 at 1:08 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.24
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $8.00
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +20.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $10.29 at 5:20 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.85 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 190,390
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 28.6×
- Float
- 1.47 million shares, from filings as of August 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.47 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 15,395 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 8,352 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 2.02 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.47 million shares: past it once at 1:33 p.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day NXTT met the small-cap rule.
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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:58 p.m. | 1:08 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 23.0% | $12.05, up 8.4% | down 3.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:16 p.m. | 1:21 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 7.5% | $9.69, down 3.7% | down 7.6% | 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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