Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026
JFU, August 17: a run to $3.95
JFU opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.56 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.95, on 3.1M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.01. It ran to $2.56 by 3:51 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.33, 41% 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 9.9% at $2.01, then ran from the open to the high of $2.56 in 381 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:56 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.23 |
| 6:01 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.95 |
| 6:01 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.95 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.01, down 9.9% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.33, 41.0% 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
- $2.23
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.01
- Gap at the open
- −9.9%
- Pre-market high
- $3.95 at 6:01 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.95 at 6:01 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.72
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.33
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +4.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.80 at 7:36 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.54 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 384,224
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 8.37 million shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 11.77 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3.15 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (80%), 160,701 in the first 30 minutes (4%), and 616,303 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (16%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day JFU met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners, after-hours movers. 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 JFU 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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