Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 20, 2026
RFAI, August 20: a run to $13.85
RFAI opened near its previous close, then ran to $13.85 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $10.52, on 1 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $10.53. It ran to $13.85 by 3:54 p.m.
The close
It closed at $13.72, near its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 5.4% at $10.53, then ran from the open to the high of $13.85 in 384 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:16 a.m. | Pre-market high, $10.52 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $10.53, up 5.4% from the previous close |
| 11:28 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $9.99 |
| 3:54 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $13.85 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $13.72, 0.9% 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
- $9.99
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $10.53
- Gap at the open
- +5.4%
- Pre-market high
- $10.52 at 9:16 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $13.85 at 3:54 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $10.52
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $13.72
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +37.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $140.52 at 5:51 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5,308
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 216,317
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 734,827 shares, from filings as of August 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.00 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 5 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 221,619 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days RFAI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 26, 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 RFAI 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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