Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 7, 2026
HUIZ, August 7: a $2.09 bid eaten in 1.5 seconds, seven halts, and $2.93
HUIZ opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.93 through seven halts during the session.
What happened
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Quiet, then a run
No news came out. It sat near $1.18 until noon, then ran. At 12:47:35 it was halted at $1.96.
It reopened at $2.40 and hit $2.88. Two quick halts followed, with big bids at $2.09 and $2.02.
The $2.09 bid
Stop It's 1:18 p.m. HUIZ has been halted since 1:08, with the last trade at $2.29. It was at $2.88 sixteen minutes ago. Large bids at $2.09 and $2.02 sit below, and a large ask at $2.29 sits above. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:15 p.m. and stop at 1:18 p.m. ET for your call.
Sellers ate the 74K-share $2.09 bid in 1.5 seconds. It touched $1.99, then rallied to $2.67 and halted.
The 1:29 reopen
Stop It's 1:29 p.m. HUIZ has been halted since 1:19, with the last trade at $2.67. That is more than double the $1.22 previous close. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:26 p.m. and stop at 1:29 p.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at $2.92 and hit $2.93. Sell orders pushed it to $2.34, and it halted.
Stop It's 1:39 p.m. HUIZ has been halted since 1:29, with the last trade at $2.34. The high so far was $2.93 ten minutes ago. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:36 p.m. and stop at 1:39 p.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at $1.90 and hit $1.27 by 1:40. It closed at $1.68.
What to take from it: A big bid did not hold: the $2.09 wall broke in 1.5 seconds.
Replay HUIZ's day
It starts at 12:33 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 12:36 p.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
Intraday run. It opened down 3.3% at $1.18, then ran from the open to the high of $2.93 in 239 minutes through 4 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 5:25 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.23 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.18, down 3.3% from the previous close | |
| 12:18 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.22 | |
| 1:29 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.93 | |
| 2:25 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 7.67 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.68, 42.7% 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
- $1.22
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.18
- Gap at the open
- −3.3%
- Pre-market high
- $1.23 at 5:25 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.93 at 1:29 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.05
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.68
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +37.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.71 at 4:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 13.49 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 623,140
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 7.67 million shares, from filings as of August 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.11 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 456 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 697 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 14.11 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 7.67 million shares: past it once at 2:25 p.m.
- Other days HUIZ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 20, 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 (7)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:47 p.m. | 1:02 p.m. | 14 min 48 s | up 33.3% | $2.40, up 22.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 1:02 p.m. | 1:07 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 46.9% | $2.86, down 0.7% | down 19.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:08 p.m. | 1:18 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 20.5% | $2.15, down 6.1% | up 24.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:19 p.m. | 1:29 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 16.6% | $2.92, up 9.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 1:29 p.m. | 1:39 p.m. | 10 min 6 s | down 12.4% | $1.90, down 18.8% | down 5.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:51 p.m. | 1:56 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 27.5% | $1.44, up 5.1% | up 9.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:37 p.m. | 2:42 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 27.9% | $2.11, down 7.9% | up 3.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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.
Analysis
Written by AI from the facts above and checked against them, number by number. A reading of the price action, not advice.
HUIZ spent the morning drifting around its 1.22 previous close, opening at 1.18 and barely trading until 12:18 p.m., when it printed its first trade 20% above that level. From there the move came in violent bursts, with LULD pauses starting at 12:47 p.m. and hitting 7 times in all. The high of 2.93 arrived at 1:29 p.m., and the reopenings were choppy: the 1:02 p.m. halt reopened at 2.86 and then gave back 19.9% over the next 5 minutes. Volume passed the whole 7.67 million share float at 2:25 p.m., and the stock faded from there, with the last trade before the close at 1.68. That left it well off the high, and no news was found ahead of the move.
Trade this day
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