Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 20, 2026
SNSC, August 20: three halts, a $2.71 top, and a $1.47 close
SNSC opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.71 through three halts during the session.
What happened
A quiet start
No news drove this run. It opened at $1.32 and cleared the $1.37 pre-market high at 9:50.
Stop It's 9:57. SNSC is at $1.55, above the $1.37 pre-market high it cleared at 9:50. It was $1.32 at the open. $2.00 is the next round number. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:54 a.m. and stop at 9:57 a.m. ET for your call.
It took off. The 9:58 minute hit $1.75 on 25K shares, and by 10:00 it traded through $2.00.
Two halts, two reopens
The first halt, at 10:00:45, froze it at $2.15. It reopened higher and ran to $2.71 at 10:06.
Then it slid. At 10:08:52 it was halted again at $1.85.
Stop It's 10:13. SNSC has been halted since 10:08. The last trade was $1.85. The high was $2.71, seven minutes ago. Would you buy at the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:10 a.m. and stop at 10:13 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at $1.85 and fell to $1.80, 34% off the top.
Lower highs to the close
The bounce stopped at $2.22. After a third halt it stayed under $1.75 and closed at $1.47.
What to take from it: Halt reopens differ: the thin one cost $269 more than the screen.
Replay SNSC's day
It starts at 9:47 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:50 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 0.8% at $1.32, then ran from the open to the high of $2.71 in 36 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 5:08 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.37 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.32, up 0.8% from the previous close | |
| 9:57 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.31 | |
| 10:06 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.71 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.47, 45.8% 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
- $1.31
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.32
- Gap at the open
- +0.8%
- Pre-market high
- $1.37 at 5:08 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.71 at 10:06 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.25
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.47
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +12.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.14 at 7:47 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.76 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 256,677
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 29.1×
- Float
- 3.10 million shares, from filings as of August 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 38.10 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 15,333 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 84,333 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 2.92 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (97%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day SNSC met the small-cap rule.
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 (3)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 a.m. | 10:05 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 43.3% | $2.27, up 5.6% | down 18.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:08 a.m. | 10:13 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 14.0% | $1.85, unchanged | down 12.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:15 a.m. | 10:20 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 12.4% | $1.62, unchanged | down 1.2% | 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
Replay SNSC on August 20, 2026 in Hindsight Markets: the real tape, the order book and the halts, on a clock you control, and see where your orders would have filled.