Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 7, 2026
MB, August 7: 15 halts, $20.00 before the bell, and walls at $15, $14 and $13
MB more than tripled at the open, ran to $19.75 through 15 halts, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
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Before dawn: $20
MB ran with no news in the data. It closed at $3.80 the day before. By 6:01 a.m., more shares had traded than its 4.7M float.
Stop It's 6:05. MB is at $13.33. Since 5:49 it has held between about $11.50 and $13.65, and the 6:04 minute just ran to $13.65. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 6:02 a.m. and stop at 6:05 a.m. ET for your call.
It spiked to $20.00 at 6:06 a.m., the high of the day.
A halt that reopened lower
Here the halt erased the run. It topped at $19.75 and froze at 9:52:44. It reopened at 10:02:45 at $15.11, 23% lower.
Walls pulled and taken
A halt ended at 10:17:58 with a big $15.00 wall on the book.
Stop It's 10:18. MB reopened from a halt at $12.87 a few seconds ago and is at $12.90. A large ask wall has been on the book at $15.00 since the reopen. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:15 a.m. and stop at 10:18 a.m. ET for your call.
Price topped near $14.25. The wall was pulled at 10:34:25 without trading at $15.00.
Stop It's 10:40. MB is at $11.99. A large ask wall has been sitting at $13.00 since 10:38. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:37 a.m. and stop at 10:40 a.m. ET for your call.
It cleared the wall at 10:40:45. It closed at $8.92, 55% under the high.
What to take from it: On this day, a halt reopened 23% lower and a big wall vanished without trading.
Replay MB's day
It starts at 9:27 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:30 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 281.3% to $14.49 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $19.75 in 22 minutes through 3 halts, then gave back 206% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $8.92, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:59 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.80 | |
| 6:01 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 4.69 million shares | |
| 6:06 a.m. | Pre-market high, $20.00 | |
| 6:06 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $20.00 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $14.49, up 281.3% from the previous close | |
| 3:42 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $8.92, 55.4% 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
- $3.80
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $14.49
- Gap at the open
- +281.3%
- Pre-market high
- $20.00 at 6:06 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $20.00 at 6:06 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.73
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $8.92
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +134.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $9.28 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 21.62 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 462,742
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 4.69 million shares, from filings as of August 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 17.16 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 13.57 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (61%), 677,934 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 7.84 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (36%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 4.69 million shares: past it once at 6:01 a.m., twice at 7:05 a.m., three times at 9:52 a.m.
- Other days MB met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on October 15, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 (15)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:31 a.m. | 9:36 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 15.1% | $12.59, up 3.4% | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:37 a.m. | 9:42 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 13.7% | $14.50, up 4.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 9:42 a.m. | 9:52 a.m. | 10 min 1 s | up 15.2% | $17.95, up 12.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 9:52 a.m. | 10:02 a.m. | 10 min 1 s | up 23.8% | $15.11, down 23.5% | down 8.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:03 a.m. | 10:08 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 30.0% | $14.24, up 3.0% | down 13.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:12 a.m. | 10:17 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 10.6% | $12.87, up 4.2% | down 1.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:24 a.m. | 10:29 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 12.5% | $12.00, up 1.7% | up 9.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:41 a.m. | 10:46 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 6.8% | $13.88, up 4.0% | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:47 a.m. | 10:52 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 14.4% | $15.27, unchanged | down 7.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:42 a.m. | 11:47 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.2% | $8.08, up 5.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 11:47 a.m. | 11:52 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 16.5% | $9.30, up 4.6% | down 10.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:57 a.m. | 12:02 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.6% | $8.10, up 4.5% | up 6.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:06 p.m. | 12:16 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 11.0% | $9.10, up 5.8% | up 7.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:20 p.m. | 12:25 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 14.1% | $9.32, down 5.0% | down 8.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 3:42 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | 17 min 22 s | up 13.2% | $8.95, up 0.3% | down 17.3% | 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.
Trade this day
Replay MB on August 7, 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.