Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 12, 2026
CCEL, August 12: a run to $5.90
CCEL opened down 11%, then ran to $4.19 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $5.90, on 329K shares.
The open
It opened down 11%, at $3.17. It ran to $4.19 by 1:47 p.m.
The close
It closed at $3.83, 35% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened down 11.5% at $3.17, then ran from the open to the high of $4.19 in 257 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:14 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.58 |
| 4:15 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.90 |
| 4:15 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.90 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.17, down 11.5% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.83, 35.1% 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
- $3.58
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.17
- Gap at the open
- −11.5%
- Pre-market high
- $5.90 at 4:15 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.90 at 4:15 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.87
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.83
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +7.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.00 at 4:03 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 438,283
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3,265
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 5.21 million shares, from filings as of August 12, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.06 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 328,541 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (74%), 14,039 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 98,968 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (22%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day CCEL met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. 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 CCEL 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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