Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 19, 2026
BTCS, August 19: a run to $1.28
BTCS opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.28 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.10, on 641 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.09. It ran to $1.28 by 3:04 p.m.
The close
It closed at $1.26, near 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 up 0.9% at $1.09, then ran from the open to the high of $1.28 in 334 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:49 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.10 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.09, up 0.9% from the previous close |
| 3:04 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.28 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.26, 1.6% below the high |
| 4:54 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.08 |
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
- $1.08
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.09
- Gap at the open
- +0.9%
- Pre-market high
- $1.10 at 4:49 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.28 at 3:04 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.07
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.26
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +16.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.76 at 6:08 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.02 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.96 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 11.6×
- Float
- 40.43 million shares, from filings as of August 19, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 49.78 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 641 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 17,298 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 2.96 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day BTCS met the small-cap rule.
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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for BTCS 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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