Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 4, 2026
DXST, August 4: a gap that faded
DXST opened up 32%, then faded below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.58, on 4.6M shares.
The open
It opened up 32%, at $2.99.
The close
It closed at $2.72, 24% under its high.
What to take from it: A big gap is not a trend. This one traded below its open by the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and fade. It gapped up 32.3% to $2.99 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $2.72.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.26 |
| 4:33 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.58 |
| 4:33 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.40 million shares |
| 4:33 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.58 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.99, up 32.3% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.72, 24.0% 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
- $2.26
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.99
- Gap at the open
- +32.3%
- Pre-market high
- $3.58 at 4:33 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.58 at 4:33 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.66
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.72
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +20.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.73 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 6.05 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 93,451
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 7.6×
- Float
- 1.40 million shares, from filings as of August 4, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.79 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4.57 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (74%), 417,036 in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 1.16 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (19%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.40 million shares: past it once at 4:33 a.m., twice at 5:00 a.m., three times at 9:13 a.m.
- Other days DXST met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on September 29, 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 DXST 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
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