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DSY, August 6: an after-hours run to $8.21

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DSY barely moved in the regular session, then ran to $8.21 after the close.

$8.21$3.464 a.m.9:30noon4 p.m.8 p.m.
DSY on August 6, 2026, one-minute bars, New York time. Bands: halts. Flags: the news or filing before the move. Dotted line: the previous close. Shaded: before the 9:30 a.m. open and after the 4:00 p.m. close.

What happened

Before the open

We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.38, on 317 shares.

The open

It opened near its previous close, at $3.33.

The close

It closed at $3.40, near its high. After the close it ran to $8.21 by 4:40 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 down 3.8% at $3.33 and traded at $3.40 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 141.5% from $3.40 to $8.21 at 4:40 p.m. after the close, on 4.95 million shares traded after hours.

Time (ET)What happened
4:05 a.m.Pre-market high, $3.38
9:30 a.m.The open: $3.33, down 3.8% from the previous close
3:01 p.m.High of the day to the close, $3.45
3:59 p.m.Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.40, 1.4% below the high
4:04 p.m.First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.46
4:21 p.m.Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.25 million shares

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
$3.46
Open, 9:30 a.m.
$3.33
Gap at the open
−3.8%
Pre-market high
$3.38 at 4:05 a.m.
High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$3.45 at 3:01 p.m.
Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$3.31
Close, 4 p.m.
$3.40
Change at 4 p.m.
−1.7%
After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
$8.21 at 4:40 p.m.
Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
1,288
Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
4.95 million
Relative volume by 8 p.m.
345.0×
Float
1.25 million shares, from filings as of August 6, 2026
Shares outstanding
4.75 million
  • Volume, from the one-minute bars: 317 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 16 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 4.95 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
  • Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.25 million shares: past it once at 4:21 p.m., twice at 4:38 p.m., three times at 4:59 p.m.
  • Other days DSY met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 7, 2026.
  • The next session, August 7, 2026, it was up 34.2% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.

On the day's lists: the intraday runners, after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 DSY 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.

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