Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 10, 2026
AUUD, August 10: a 7:00 headline, a $1.42 wall, and $1.80
AUUD opened up 74% after news, then faded below its open by the close.
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What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
The headline
On this day, a merger filing took half an hour to move AUUD. The S-4 news hit at 7:00, but the stock chopped under $0.92 until 7:35, when it crossed $1.00.
It hit $1.51 at 7:45, and by 7:46 more shares had traded than the whole 5.4M float.
The $1.42 wall
At 7:52:02 an ask wall showed at $1.42. It peaked near 207K shares.
Stop It's 7:53. AUUD is at $1.40. A large ask wall sits just above at $1.42, and more shares have already traded today than the float holds. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 7:50 a.m. and stop at 7:53 a.m. ET for your call.
The wall was gone at 7:53:06. Only 45K shares traded at $1.42. The break failed: it topped at $1.46 and fell to $1.28 the next minute.
$1.80, then a second wall
It reached $1.80 at 8:14. At 8:21 a new ask wall built at $1.64.
Stop It's 8:27. AUUD is at $1.62. An ask wall that peaked near 150,000 shares appeared at $1.64 at 8:21. The high so far is $1.80. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 8:24 a.m. and stop at 8:27 a.m. ET for your call.
The wall was eaten at 8:27:46 after 37K shares traded. Again no new high: it fell to $1.38 by 8:38.
The close
Later pushes stopped lower. It hit $1.07 at 12:53 and closed at $1.31, 27% under the high.
What to take from it: Two ask walls broke today, and neither break led to a new high.
Replay AUUD's day
It starts at 7:32 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 7:35 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 and fade. It gapped up 73.9% to $1.43 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $1.31.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:00 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Auddia Announces SEC Effectiveness of S-4 Registration Statement Clearing Major Merger Milestone | |
| 7:01 a.m. | News (MCAP MediaWire): Auddia Announces SEC Effectiveness of S‑4 Registration Statement Clearing Major Merger Milestone | |
| 7:35 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.8222 | |
| 7:46 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 5.36 million shares | |
| 8:14 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.80 | |
| 8:14 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.80 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.43, up 73.9% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.31, 27.2% 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
- $0.8222
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.43
- Gap at the open
- +73.9%
- Pre-market high
- $1.80 at 8:14 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.80 at 8:14 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.8205
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.31
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +59.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.36 at 7:59 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 49.47 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 802,201
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 817.5×
- Float
- 5.36 million shares, from filings as of August 10, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 5.36 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 33 minutes after the latest news item before it (MCAP MediaWire, 7:01 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 35.74 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (71%), 3.84 million in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 10.69 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (21%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 5.36 million shares: past it once at 7:46 a.m., twice at 7:54 a.m., three times at 8:04 a.m.
- Other days AUUD met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 23, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for AUUD 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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