Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 26, 2026
NUWE, August 26: the $1.17 wall, a run to $1.45, and back to $1.00
NUWE spiked to $1.45 before the open, then gave much of it back in the session.
What happened
The $1.17 and $1.18 walls
NUWE closed at $0.96 on August 25, the day of a deal headline. Early on the 26th it spiked to $1.26 by 6:49, then fell to $0.97 at 7:13.
From 6:53, offers sat just above the price: 110K shares at $1.18 and 77K at $1.17. By 7:51 the stock was back at $1.14, right under them.
Stop It's 7:52. NUWE is at about $1.15. Sellers have had offers stacked at $1.17 and $1.18 since 6:53, and the stock came back from $0.97 at 7:13. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 7:49 a.m. and stop at 7:52 a.m. ET for your call.
Here's what happened. Starting at 7:52:04, 13K shares cleared $1.17 in under six seconds. The $1.18 wall was gone at 7:52:28. A minute later it hit $1.29.
The pullback from $1.29
Stop It's 8:03. NUWE is at $1.16 after pulling back from $1.29 at 7:53. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 8:00 a.m. and stop at 8:03 a.m. ET for your call.
Here's what happened. It ran again, to the day's high of $1.45 at 8:07.
That was the peak. It never got back to $1.30 after 8:08. It opened at $1.04 and was at $1.00 by 3:59 p.m.
What to take from it: A wall that sat for an hour broke in seconds, but the whole run was over before the open.
Replay NUWE's day
It starts at 7:46 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 7:49 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
Pre-market spike. Before the open it spiked 51.2% from $0.9592 to $1.45 at 8:07 a.m.. It opened up 8.4% at $1.04 and traded at $1.00 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 6:48 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.9592 | |
| 8:07 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.45 | |
| 8:07 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.45 | |
| 8:08 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 3.65 million shares | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.04, up 8.4% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.00, 31.0% 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
- $0.9592
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.04
- Gap at the open
- +8.4%
- Pre-market high
- $1.45 at 8:07 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.45 at 8:07 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.97
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.00
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +4.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.03 at 7:45 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 7.67 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 187,921
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 1.8×
- Float
- 3.65 million shares, from filings as of August 26, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.65 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 6.43 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (82%), 234,031 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 1.19 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (15%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 3.65 million shares: past it once at 8:08 a.m., twice at 12:13 p.m.
- Other days NUWE met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 29, 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 NUWE 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 NUWE 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.