Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 20, 2026
GYGY, August 20: a quiet morning, two halts, and $4.09
GYGY opened near its previous close, ran to $4.09 through two halts, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
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Quiet, then a halt
GYGY was quiet all morning near $1.90. It ran late, and a volatility pause froze it at $3.02 at 11:55:39.
Stop It's 12:05. GYGY has been halted since 11:55 with the last trade at $3.02. The previous close was $1.77. Trading is about to resume. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:02 p.m. and stop at 12:05 p.m. ET for your call.
It reopened 8% higher at $3.26 and hit $3.91 that minute.
The walls at $3.91
This halt had big orders on both sides. It froze at $3.91 at 12:06, with a 164K-share bid at that price. By 12:10, a 52K-share ask sat at $3.91 too.
Stop It's 12:11. GYGY has been halted since 12:06 with the last trade at $3.91, up from $1.77. Over 50,000 shares are offered at exactly $3.91. Trading is about to resume. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:08 p.m. and stop at 12:11 p.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at 12:11:11 at $3.90. The big bid was pulled at 12:11:12. Buyers ate the ask wall about half a minute later, and that minute made the $4.09 high.
The fade
The top lasted one minute. A bounce stopped at $3.89. It closed at $1.62, below the $1.77 prior close.
What to take from it: The big bid under the reopen was gone one second after trading resumed.
Replay GYGY's day
It starts at 11:47 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 11:50 a.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 and fade. It opened up 7.3% at $1.90, then ran from the open to the high of $4.09 in 161 minutes through two halts, and gave it all back: it traded at $1.62 at 4:00 p.m., below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:17 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.77 | |
| 4:17 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.30 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.90, up 7.3% from the previous close | |
| 12:11 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.09 | |
| 12:19 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 5.72 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.62, 60.4% 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
- $1.77
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.90
- Gap at the open
- +7.3%
- Pre-market high
- $2.30 at 4:17 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.09 at 12:11 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.55
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.62
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −8.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.65 at 4:40 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 15.07 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 422,481
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 259.4×
- Float
- 5.72 million shares, from filings as of August 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 14.39 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 113,333 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 68,505 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 15.31 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 5.72 million shares: past it once at 12:19 p.m., twice at 12:55 p.m.
- Other days GYGY met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on September 28, 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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:55 a.m. | 12:05 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 39.8% | $3.26, up 7.9% | up 19.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:06 p.m. | 12:11 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 29.5% | $3.90, down 0.3% | down 7.9% | 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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