Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 14, 2026
JDZG, August 14: one halt and $4.45
JDZG opened near its previous close, then ran to $4.45 through one halt during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.45, on 3K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.51. It ran to $4.45 by 9:54 a.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 9:56 a.m.
The close
It closed at $3.83, 14% 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 up 3.2% at $3.51, then ran from the open to the high of $4.45 in 24 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:19 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.45 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.51, up 3.2% from the previous close |
| 9:49 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.40 |
| 9:54 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.45 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.83, 13.9% 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
- $3.40
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.51
- Gap at the open
- +3.2%
- Pre-market high
- $3.45 at 9:19 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.45 at 9:54 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.06
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.83
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +12.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.94 at 4:37 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 863,158
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 10,689
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 5.2×
- Float
- 5.14 million shares, from filings as of August 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 5.43 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3,246 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 44,699 in the first 30 minutes (5%), and 825,902 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (95%).
- Other days JDZG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 30, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:56 a.m. | 10:01 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 9.4% | $3.70, down 0.8% | unchanged | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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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