Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026
RETO, August 17: one halt and $2.15
RETO opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.15 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 $1.23, on 127 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.24. It ran to $2.15 by 1:25 p.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 1:31 p.m.
The close
It closed at $1.64, 24% 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 3.1% at $1.24, then ran from the open to the high of $2.15 in 235 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:17 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.23 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.24, down 3.1% from the previous close |
| 12:35 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.28 |
| 1:25 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.15 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.64, 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
- $1.28
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.24
- Gap at the open
- −3.1%
- Pre-market high
- $1.23 at 5:17 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.15 at 1:25 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.16
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.64
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +28.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.72 at 4:35 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.68 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 97,535
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 17.3×
- Float
- 35.85 million shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 35.85 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 127 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,189 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 4.77 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days RETO met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on October 5, 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:31 p.m. | 1:36 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 23.0% | $1.50, down 4.5% | down 0.7% | 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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