Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 3, 2026
EZRA, August 3: an 8:30 headline, the wall at $4.00, and $4.60
EZRA opened up 76% after news, ran to $4.60, then fell below its open by the close.
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What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
The 8:30 headline
The news lit the fuse. At 8:30 a.m. a release said Reliance Global Group signed an LOI to sell Altruis for $11 million in cash. That minute EZRA ran from $1.85 to $3.68. By 8:31, more shares had traded than the 985K float.
The open
The open added fuel. It opened at $3.20, up 76% from the $1.82 close, and reached $4.42 by 9:32.
Stop It's 9:34. EZRA is at $4.29. It opened at $3.20, cleared the $3.78 pre-market high four minutes ago, and has traded as high as $4.42. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:32 a.m. and stop at 9:34 a.m. ET for your call.
One buy order swept 77K shares, and it hit $4.60, the day's high.
The wall at $4.00
Here sellers stacked shares just above the price. The offer at $4.00 peaked at 43K shares at 10:09.
Stop It's 10:10. EZRA is at $3.85. About 42,600 shares were offered at $4.00 at the wall's peak a minute ago, just above the price. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:07 a.m. and stop at 10:10 a.m. ET for your call.
At 10:10:14 buyers ate the wall in under a second. That minute still closed at $3.73. It faded from there and closed at $2.60.
What to take from it: Buyers eating a wall is not the same as a breakout.
Replay EZRA's day
It starts at 8:26 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 8:29 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 and fade. It gapped up 75.8% to $3.20 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $4.60 in 4 minutes, then gave back 143% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $2.60, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Reliance Global Group Signs LOI to Sell Altruis Benefit Consulting for $11 Million in Cash | |
| 8:30 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.82 | |
| 8:31 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 984,617 shares | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.78 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.20, up 75.8% from the previous close | |
| 9:34 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.60 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.60, 43.5% 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
- $1.82
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.20
- Gap at the open
- +75.8%
- Pre-market high
- $3.78 at 9:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.60 at 9:34 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.80
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.60
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +42.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.77 at 4:22 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 43.55 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 535,616
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 802.6×
- Float
- 984,617 shares, from filings as of August 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.00 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, 8:30 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 15.67 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (36%), 11.15 million in the first 30 minutes (25%), and 17.27 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (39%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 984,617 shares: past it once at 8:31 a.m., twice at 8:34 a.m., three times at 8:36 a.m.
- Other days EZRA met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 13, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, 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 EZRA 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 EZRA on August 3, 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.