Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 26, 2026
DAIC, August 26: the $5.90 bid, two halts, and $7.20 after hours
DAIC opened up 60%, then faded below its open by the close.
What happened
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The $5.90 bid
This morning's support was one big bid at $5.90.
Stop It's 9:44. DAIC is at $6.00. Just below, a bid for as many as 74,387 shares has been sitting at $5.90 since 9:36. Would you buy here, counting on that bid to hold?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:41 a.m. and stop at 9:44 a.m. ET for your call.
It broke. About 23K shares traded there in 3.9 seconds, and the bid was gone.
Halt and the $5.31 wall
A halt at 9:57:53 froze it at $5.31, with a 69K-share ask wall there.
Stop It's 10:03. DAIC reopened a minute ago and is at $5.27. Above it, an ask wall of as many as 69,198 shares was last seen at $5.31. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:00 a.m. and stop at 10:03 a.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate the wall in one second. Then it sank to $4.61 by 10:09.
The $4.75 bid
In the afternoon, another big bid built at $4.75.
Stop It's 1:56 p.m. DAIC is at $4.80. A large bid has been building at $4.75 since 1:02. Would you buy here, with the bid right under the price?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:53 p.m. and stop at 1:56 p.m. ET for your call.
It peaked at 104K shares. At 2:03:31 it was pulled. After a halt, the stock hit $4.26. It closed at $5.15, then hit $7.20 after hours.
What to take from it: On DAIC, big bids were not floors: one was eaten, one was pulled.
Replay DAIC's day
It starts at 6:56 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 6:59 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 59.8% to $6.20 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $5.15.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.88 | |
| 4:11 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 853,881 shares | |
| 7:10 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.88 | |
| 7:10 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.88 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $6.20, up 59.8% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.15, 25.1% 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
- $3.88
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $6.20
- Gap at the open
- +59.8%
- Pre-market high
- $6.88 at 7:10 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.88 at 7:10 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.26
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.15
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +32.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $7.20 at 4:15 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 18.79 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.81 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 4.0×
- Float
- 853,881 shares, from filings as of August 26, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.21 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 8.77 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (39%), 3.05 million in the first 30 minutes (14%), and 10.78 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (48%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 853,881 shares: past it once at 4:11 a.m., twice at 4:43 a.m., three times at 6:34 a.m.
- Other days DAIC met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on October 12, 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:57 a.m. | 10:02 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 12.8% | $5.23, down 1.5% | down 1.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:05 p.m. | 2:10 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.7% | $4.36, down 5.0% | up 1.7% | 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
Replay DAIC on August 26, 2026 in Hindsight Markets: the real tape, the order book and the halts, on a clock you control, and see where your orders would have filled.