Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 20, 2026
HUIZ, August 20: a 5:00 headline, one halt, and $4.17
HUIZ more than doubled at the open, then faded below its open by the close.
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
The 5:00 headline
First-half results hit at 5:00 a.m. HUIZ jumped from the $1.46 close to $2.02, then slid to $1.33.
The 8:10 spike
With no new news, it ran from $1.62 to $4.00 at 8:10. Then it touched $4.06 by 8:22.
Stop It's 8:23. HUIZ is at $3.72. It was $1.62 at 7:59 and has already touched $4.00 and $4.06, pulling back after each. It is up 155% from the $1.46 close, and more than the whole float has traded. Would you buy here?
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The next minute it hit $4.17, the day's high.
Into the open
Before the bell, an ask wall sat at $3.36.
Stop It's 9:24. HUIZ is at $3.23. A large ask wall has appeared at $3.36, just above. The 8:24 high of $4.17 is an hour old. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:21 a.m. and stop at 9:24 a.m. ET for your call.
The 82K-share wall was pulled at 9:24:59. The stock opened at $3.06 and fell to $2.49.
It was halted at 9:31:03 at $2.49. It reopened at 9:36:03 lower, at $2.40.
By the 3:59 bar it was $1.84, 56% under the high.
What to take from it: The pre-market top at $4.17 was the day's high, and every later push stopped lower.
Replay HUIZ's day
It starts at 8:02 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 8:05 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
Gap and fade. It gapped up 109.6% to $3.06 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $1.84.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.46 | |
| 8:16 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 7.67 million shares | |
| 8:24 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.17 | |
| 8:24 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.17 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.06, up 109.6% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.84, 55.9% 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
- $1.46
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.06
- Gap at the open
- +109.6%
- Pre-market high
- $4.17 at 8:24 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.17 at 8:24 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.33
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.84
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +26.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.02 at 5:27 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 35.15 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 693,840
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 46.8×
- Float
- 7.67 million shares, from filings as of August 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.11 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 25.99 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (73%), 4.61 million in the first 30 minutes (13%), and 5.24 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (15%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 7.67 million shares: past it once at 8:16 a.m., twice at 8:35 a.m., three times at 9:11 a.m.
- Other days HUIZ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 20, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:31 a.m. | 9:36 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 23.6% | $2.40, down 3.6% | up 4.2% | 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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