Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 21, 2026
EXYN, August 21: the $1.52 bid wall, a run through $2.00, and the $2.67 top
EXYN opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.67 during the session.
What happened
A quiet start
There was no fresh news on the 21st. EXYN opened at $1.65, up 4% from its $1.58 close, then slid toward a big bid at $1.52.
Stop It's 9:43. EXYN is at $1.55, down from $1.72 eleven minutes ago. A large bid has been sitting at $1.52 since the open. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:40 a.m. and stop at 9:43 a.m. ET for your call.
The bid did not hold. At 9:44:09 sellers hit it. 39K shares traded at $1.52 in under a second.
Ten cents under $2.00
From there it drifted back up, then jumped to $1.83 at 10:35.
Stop It's 10:41. EXYN is at $1.90, up from $1.75 at 10:35. $2.00 is ten cents above. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:38 a.m. and stop at 10:41 a.m. ET for your call.
It went through $2.00 the next minute and touched $2.28 at 10:46. By 11:18 it was down to $1.81.
A range break
It climbed slowly for an hour, then broke its range on rising volume.
Stop It's 12:33. EXYN is at $2.22, just above the $2.21 high of its range since 11:53, which ran from $1.94 to $2.21. The last minute traded 45,660 shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:30 p.m. and stop at 12:33 p.m. ET for your call.
It hit $2.67 at 12:35, the high of the day. A retry at 1:39 stopped at $2.51. It ended the regular session at $2.18.
What to take from it: The big bid at $1.52 did not stop the drop; it vanished in a second and became the day's low.
Replay EXYN's day
It starts at 12:17 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 12:20 p.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 4.4% at $1.65, then ran from the open to the high of $2.67 in 185 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:21 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.75 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.65, up 4.4% from the previous close | |
| 10:41 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.58 | |
| 12:35 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.67 | |
| 12:38 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.50 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.17, 18.5% 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
- $1.58
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.65
- Gap at the open
- +4.4%
- Pre-market high
- $1.75 at 7:21 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.67 at 12:35 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.52
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.17
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +37.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.29 at 4:02 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.34 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 136,234
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 16.4×
- Float
- 2.50 million shares, from filings as of August 21, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 7.95 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 7,991 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 74,867 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 5.39 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.50 million shares: past it once at 12:38 p.m., twice at 3:03 p.m.
- Other days EXYN met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 19, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for EXYN 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
Replay EXYN on August 21, 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.