Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 20, 2026
SGLY, August 20: a 6:00 a.m. headline, $8.43 at 7:01, and $3.45 at the close
SGLY opened up 58% after news, then faded below its open by the close.
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What happened
The 6:00 headline
A 6:00 a.m. data center headline sent it flying. From the $2.98 close it hit $6.75 by 6:02. By 6:10, more shares had traded than the whole float.
Stop It's 7:00. SGLY is at $6.68, up 124% from the $2.98 close. It has held between $6.00 and $7.00 for 22 minutes, and the pre-market high so far is $7.00. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 6:57 a.m. and stop at 7:00 a.m. ET for your call.
It broke out. The 7:01 minute hit $8.43, the day's high, on 698K shares. A 40K-share sell order hit that minute, and it never got back there.
The 9:29 offering
An offering headline at 9:29 crushed it. That minute it fell from $6.80 to $3.86. It opened at $4.70.
The $3.22 bid
A big bid sat under the price. It peaked at 58K shares at 1:35. At 1:46 the stock dipped to $3.27.
Stop It's 1:51. SGLY is at $3.34. Five minutes ago it dipped to $3.27, the low since the open. A bid of tens of thousands of shares has sat at $3.22 since 11:49. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:48 p.m. and stop at 1:51 p.m. ET for your call.
A buy order lifted it to $3.56. At 1:52:40 the $3.22 bid was pulled without trading. It closed at $3.45.
What to take from it: A huge bid can vanish without ever trading.
Replay SGLY's day
It starts at 6:56 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 6:59 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
Gap and fade. It gapped up 57.7% to $4.70 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $3.45.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 5:00 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Univest Securities, LLC Announces Closing of $1.8 Million Registered Direct Offering for its Client Singularity Future Technology Ltd. (NASDAQ: SGLY) | |
| 6:00 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): SGLY Enters Into Non-Binding Strategic Framework Agreement for Potential 900-Acre South Carolina AI Data Center Campus | |
| 6:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.98 | |
| 6:10 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.24 million shares | |
| 7:01 a.m. | Pre-market high, $8.43 | |
| 7:01 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.43 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.70, up 57.7% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.45, 59.1% 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
- $2.98
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.70
- Gap at the open
- +57.7%
- Pre-market high
- $8.43 at 7:01 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.43 at 7:01 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.87
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.45
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +15.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.65 at 4:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 24.61 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 295,379
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 40.7×
- Float
- 1.24 million shares, from filings as of August 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.24 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, 6:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 17.94 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (72%), 3.71 million in the first 30 minutes (15%), and 3.25 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (13%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.24 million shares: past it once at 6:10 a.m., twice at 6:26 a.m., three times at 6:38 a.m.
- Other days SGLY met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on August 18, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for SGLY 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.
Trade this day
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