Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 11, 2026
BOXL, August 11: a quiet day, then an after-hours spike to $4.77
BOXL barely moved in the regular session after an 8-K, then ran to $4.77 after the close.
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
A very thin session
This day was almost empty before the close. It opened at $3.00, and the regular session traded only 3,263 shares.
Stop It's 1:41. BOXL is at $2.97, the open of this minute, right at the previous close of $2.97. The stock opened at $3.00 this morning, topped at $3.05 at 11:25 and slipped back to $3.00 around 12:28. At 1:21 it dipped to $2.94 on 400 shares, then bounced to $2.99 at 1:24. Since then trades have been very rare: one share at 1:27, and now a print at $2.97. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:38 p.m. and stop at 1:41 p.m. ET for your call.
It slid to $2.88 at 3:59 p.m. and ended the session at $2.93.
The after-hours spike
The real move came after the close. An 8-K was filed at 4:25 p.m. At 5:13 p.m. it began to run, and it hit $4.77 at 5:31 p.m., about 61% above the prior close.
By 5:25, more shares had traded than the whole float. The private placement headline came at 5:40, with the stock already near $4.10. It was at $4.62 at 7:59 p.m.
What to take from it: On this day the filing and the run came after the close, while the regular session barely traded.
Replay BOXL's day
It starts at 1:40 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 1:43 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
After-hours run. It opened up 1.0% at $3.00 and traded at $2.88 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 65.6% from $2.88 to $4.77 at 5:31 p.m. after the close, on 2.96 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.92 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.00, up 1.0% from the previous close | |
| 11:25 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.05 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.88, 5.6% below the high | |
| 4:25 p.m. | SEC filing 8-K: CURRENT REPORT | |
| 5:13 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.97 | |
| 5:25 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 663,210 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
- $2.97
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.00
- Gap at the open
- +1.0%
- Pre-market high
- $2.92 at 7:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.05 at 11:25 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.63
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.88
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −3.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.77 at 5:31 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3,423
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.96 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 271.5×
- Float
- 663,210 shares, from filings as of August 11, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 667,057
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 47 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 4:25 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 160 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,681 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 2.96 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 663,210 shares: past it once at 5:25 p.m., twice at 5:35 p.m., three times at 6:08 p.m.
- Other days BOXL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 14, 2026.
- The next session, August 12, 2026, it was up 170.3% 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 BOXL 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
Replay BOXL on August 11, 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.