Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 26, 2026
CRE, August 26: the $7 wall, the $7.30 wall and the $8 wall
CRE more than doubled at the open after news, ran to $8.60, then gave back most of the run by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
News, then the $7 wall
A 7:40 a.m. headline about record customers sent CRE from $2.59 to $7.91 by 7:43. From 9:03, a seller offered stock at $7.00.
Stop It's 9:32. CRE is at $6.95. A large ask wall has been sitting at $7.00 since 9:03. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:29 a.m. and stop at 9:32 a.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate the wall. 36K shares traded at $7.00 in under a second, and it was gone at 9:32:39. The push faded to $5.67 by 9:49.
The $7.30 wall
A new ask wall appeared at $7.30 at 9:52.
Stop It's 10:03. CRE is at $6.82. A big ask wall has been sitting at $7.30 since 9:52. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:00 a.m. and stop at 10:03 a.m. ET for your call.
This seller walked away. The wall was pulled at 10:03:37, and the stock ran to $8.15 a minute later. By 10:08 it was back at $6.24.
The $8 wall
From 10:15, a 33K-share wall sat at $8.00.
Stop It's 10:26. CRE is at $7.43. An ask wall has been sitting at $8.00 since 10:15. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:23 a.m. and stop at 10:26 a.m. ET for your call.
Buyers broke it again, at 10:26:21. Two sweeps carried it to $8.60, the high. Within two minutes it was at $7.08. It closed at $6.77.
What to take from it: The walls broke fast, and buying the break cost far more than the screen showed.
Replay CRE's day
It starts at 7:34 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 7:37 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, run, gave some back. It gapped up 136.7% to $6.13 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $8.60 in 56 minutes, then gave back 74% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $6.77, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:40 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Cre8 Enterprise Limited Reports Record Number of Customers Served for the First Half of 2026 | |
| 7:40 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.59 | |
| 7:44 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.48 million shares | |
| 7:49 a.m. | Pre-market high, $8.25 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $6.13, up 136.7% from the previous close | |
| 10:26 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.60 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $6.77, 21.3% 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
- $2.59
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $6.13
- Gap at the open
- +136.7%
- Pre-market high
- $8.25 at 7:49 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.60 at 10:26 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.56
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $6.77
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +161.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $7.23 at 4:37 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 28.08 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 827,297
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 764.3×
- Float
- 1.48 million shares, from filings as of August 26, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.01 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, 7:40 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 11.86 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (41%), 4.15 million in the first 30 minutes (14%), and 12.89 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (45%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.48 million shares: past it once at 7:44 a.m., twice at 7:49 a.m., three times at 7:58 a.m.
- Other days CRE met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on November 3, 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 CRE 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 CRE on August 26, 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.