Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 13, 2026
OFAL, August 13: a gap that faded
OFAL opened up 30%, then faded below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.08, on 12M shares.
The open
It opened up 30%, at $1.77.
The close
It closed at $1.62, 22% under its high.
What to take from it: A big gap is not a trend. This one traded below its open by the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and fade. It gapped up 30.1% to $1.77 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $1.62.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:13 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.36 |
| 7:21 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.38 million shares |
| 8:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.08 |
| 8:00 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.08 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.77, up 30.1% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.62, 22.1% 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
- $1.36
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.77
- Gap at the open
- +30.1%
- Pre-market high
- $2.08 at 8:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.08 at 8:00 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.31
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.62
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +19.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.81 at 5:34 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 16.10 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 631,889
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 3.4×
- Float
- 1.38 million shares, from filings as of August 13, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.64 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 11.51 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (69%), 1.12 million in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 4.10 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (24%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.38 million shares: past it once at 7:21 a.m., twice at 7:44 a.m., three times at 7:50 a.m.
- Other days OFAL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on August 25, 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 OFAL 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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