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Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026

SGLY, August 17: an 8-K and an after-hours run to $8.00

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SGLY barely moved in the regular session after an 8-K, then ran to $8.00 after the close.

8-K$8.00$4.92$4.404 a.m.9:30noon4 p.m.8 p.m.
SGLY on August 17, 2026, one-minute bars, New York time. Bands: halts. Flags: the news or filing before the move. Dotted line: the previous close. Shaded: before the 9:30 a.m. open and after the 4:00 p.m. close.

What happened

Before the open

The news came first: an 8-K at 5:00 p.m. Before the bell it reached $4.89, on 1K shares.

The open

It opened near its previous close, at $4.74.

The close

It closed at $4.61, 6% under its high. After the close it ran to $8.00 by 5:47 p.m.

What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.

The details

How it traded, step by step

After-hours run. It opened down 3.7% at $4.74 and traded at $4.61 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 73.5% from $4.61 to $8.00 at 5:47 p.m. after the close, on 1.35 million shares traded after hours.

Time (ET)What happened
9:28 a.m.Pre-market high, $4.89
9:28 a.m.High of the day to the close, $4.89
9:30 a.m.The open: $4.74, down 3.7% from the previous close
3:58 p.m.Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.61, 5.8% below the high
5:00 p.m.SEC filing 8-K: CURRENT REPORT
5:05 p.m.First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.92
6:01 p.m.Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 896,904 shares

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
$4.92
Open, 9:30 a.m.
$4.74
Gap at the open
−3.7%
Pre-market high
$4.89 at 9:28 a.m.
High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$4.89 at 9:28 a.m.
Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$4.40
Close, 4 p.m.
$4.61
Change at 4 p.m.
−6.3%
After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
$8.00 at 5:47 p.m.
Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
6,895
Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
1.35 million
Relative volume by 8 p.m.
9.0×
Float
896,904 shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026
Shares outstanding
896,904
  • From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 4 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 5:00 p.m.).
  • Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1,324 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,588 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 1.35 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
  • Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 896,904 shares: past it once at 6:01 p.m.
  • Other days SGLY met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on August 20, 2026.
  • The next session, August 18, 2026, it was down 22.3% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.

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 SGLY 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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