Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026
FIEE, August 17: a gap that held
FIEE opened up 16% and held near that level into the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $6.86, on 1M shares.
The open
It opened up 16%, at $5.85.
The close
It closed at $5.65, 18% under its high.
What to take from it: The gap was the move. After the open it went sideways.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and hold. It gapped up 15.8% to $5.85 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $5.65 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.05 |
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.86 |
| 4:00 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.86 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.85, up 15.8% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.65, 17.6% 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
- $5.05
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.85
- Gap at the open
- +15.8%
- Pre-market high
- $6.86 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.86 at 4:00 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.34
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.65
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +11.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.68 at 4:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.70 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 50,892
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 3.4×
- Float
- 2.62 million shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.53 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.03 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (59%), 241,639 in the first 30 minutes (14%), and 483,663 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (28%).
- Other days FIEE met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 14, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 FIEE 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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