Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 28, 2026
FTFT, August 28: one halt and an after-hours run to $2.60
FTFT barely moved in the regular session, then ran to $2.60 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $0.6003, on 8K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $0.60.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 7:50 p.m.
The close
It closed at $0.5547, 9% under its high. After the close it ran to $2.60 by 4:31 p.m.
What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened up 3.2% at $0.60 and traded at $0.5547 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 368.7% from $0.5547 to $2.60 at 4:31 p.m. after the close, on 29.15 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:25 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.6003 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.60, up 3.2% from the previous close |
| 11:44 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $0.6098 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.5547, 9.0% below the high |
| 4:03 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.5816 |
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
- $0.5816
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.60
- Gap at the open
- +3.2%
- Pre-market high
- $0.6003 at 5:25 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.6098 at 11:44 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.55
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.5547
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −4.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.60 at 4:31 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 59,834
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 29.15 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 167.7×
- Float
- 31.66 million shares, from filings as of August 28, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 32.25 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 8,032 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 17,733 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 29.18 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days FTFT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on October 28, 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:50 p.m. | did not resume that day | down 3.4% | News pending |
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.
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