Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 13, 2026
HCTI, August 13: the $1.80 wall, a run to $2.26, and a fade to $1.73
HCTI opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $2.26 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
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News, then a quiet open
The Q2 earnings news at 8:15 a.m. lit a short pre-market run. It hit $1.55 by 8:19, then slid back to $1.22. It opened at $1.29 and stayed under $1.40 for over an hour. Then it climbed, reaching $1.76 by 11:05.
The $1.80 wall
On this day, one big seller at $1.80 stood right above the price. That offer peaked at 67K shares at 11:19:57, about 3% of the float.
Stop It's 11:20. HCTI is at $1.76. About 67,000 shares are offered at $1.80, just above, with more stock stacked at $2.00. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:17 a.m. and stop at 11:20 a.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate it. From 11:20:04, 67K shares traded at $1.80 in about 10 seconds, and the wall was gone. The $2.00 wall was eaten at 11:21:51.
Top and fade
The run topped at $2.26 in the 11:27 minute and did not hold. By 11:30 it was $1.90. A late push at 3:44 p.m. stopped lower, at $1.92. It closed at $1.73, about 24% below the high.
What to take from it: On HCTI, the $1.80 wall broke in seconds, but most of the gains above $2.00 were gone by the close.
Replay HCTI's day
It starts at 11:10 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 11:13 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
Intraday run. It opened up 4.0% at $1.29, then ran from the open to the high of $2.26 in 117 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 8:15 a.m. | News (PRNewsWire): Healthcare Triangle Reports 322% Increase in Gross Profit and 158% Increase in Revenue for Q2 2026 | |
| 8:19 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.24 | |
| 8:19 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.55 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.29, up 4.0% from the previous close | |
| 10:27 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.03 million shares | |
| 11:27 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.26 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.73, 23.7% 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
- $1.24
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.29
- Gap at the open
- +4.0%
- Pre-market high
- $1.55 at 8:19 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.26 at 11:27 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.22
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.73
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +39.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.74 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 15.98 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 629,711
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 174.3×
- Float
- 2.03 million shares, from filings as of August 13, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.03 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 4 minutes after the latest news item before it (PRNewsWire, 8:15 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.69 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (10%), 118,812 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 14.81 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (89%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.03 million shares: past it once at 10:27 a.m., twice at 11:12 a.m., three times at 11:22 a.m.
- Other days HCTI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on November 3, 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 HCTI 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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