Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 18, 2026
CDTG, August 18: a quiet morning, one halt, and $8.48
CDTG opened near its previous close, then ran to $8.48 through one halt during the session.
What happened
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The $3.63 wall
CDTG sat near $3 all morning, under a sell wall at $3.63.
Stop It's 11:45. CDTG is at $3.49, up from $2.61 at 11:31. A sell wall has been sitting at $3.63 since 7:45 a.m. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:42 a.m. and stop at 11:45 a.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate it in about five seconds, and the wall was gone at 11:46:12.
One halt at $7.78
By the afternoon it had run to $7.78, and it was halted at 2:16:13.
Stop It's 2:21. CDTG has been halted since 2:16, and the last trade was $7.78. A big sell wall has appeared at $7.00. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:18 p.m. and stop at 2:21 p.m. ET for your call.
It reopened 10% lower, at $7.00, where a 100K-share sell wall sat.
Back toward $7.78
Stop It's 2:56. CDTG is at $7.23, just under the $7.78 high from 2:15. It has climbed from $6.33 at 2:49. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:53 p.m. and stop at 2:56 p.m. ET for your call.
It hit $8.48, the high, at 2:57 p.m.
Then it slid. A 133K-share bid at $3.65 was eaten at 3:56:33, and it closed at $3.29.
What to take from it: The halt reopened lower, and almost all the run was gone by the close.
Replay CDTG's day
It starts at 1:57 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 2:00 p.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 5.0% at $2.94, then ran from the open to the high of $8.48 in 327 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:37 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.80 | |
| 7:40 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.71 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.94, up 5.0% from the previous close | |
| 12:06 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.84 million shares | |
| 2:57 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.48 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.29, 61.2% 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
- $2.80
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.94
- Gap at the open
- +5.0%
- Pre-market high
- $3.71 at 7:40 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.48 at 2:57 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.46
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.29
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +17.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.43 at 5:03 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 14.84 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 432,332
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 41.1×
- Float
- 2.84 million shares, from filings as of August 18, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.02 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 916,394 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (6%), 50,705 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 14.31 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (94%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.84 million shares: past it once at 12:06 p.m., twice at 12:53 p.m., three times at 1:39 p.m.
- Other days CDTG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on September 4, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. 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 | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:16 p.m. | 2:21 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 39.4% | $7.00, down 10.0% | down 7.0% | 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.
Trade this day
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