Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 26, 2026
OLOX, August 26: a 9:00 headline, two halts, and $2.45
OLOX opened near its previous close after news, ran to $2.45 through two halts, then fell below its open by the close.
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What happened
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Headline, then a run
A 9:00 headline set up the day. OLOX opened at $1.55 and broke $2.00 by 9:38. A 128K-share bid at $2.03 sat under it as the first halt hit.
The first reopen
The first halt reopened 18% higher, at $2.40. It touched $2.45 that minute.
Stop It's 9:49. OLOX is at $2.32. It reopened from its halt at $2.40 and touched $2.45. A big bid has been sitting at $2.03 since before the halt. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:46 a.m. and stop at 9:49 a.m. ET for your call.
Sellers took over. A 67K-share sell ran through the $2.03 bid, and the minute closed at $1.83.
Second halt, second wall
Halt #2 froze it at $1.83 at 9:50:12. A new bid built right there.
Stop It's 9:55. OLOX has been halted since 9:50 with the last trade at $1.83, down from the $2.45 high. A big bid is stacked at $1.83 and trading is about to resume. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:52 a.m. and stop at 9:55 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at 9:55:12 at $1.87. Sellers ate the 39K-share bid in 10.7 seconds. It hit $1.42 by 9:59 and was $1.44 at 3:59 p.m.
What to take from it: On this day, big bids were not floors; both broke under selling.
Replay OLOX's day
It starts at 9:30 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:33 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 4.4% at $1.55, then ran from the open to the high of $2.45 in 18 minutes through a halt, and gave it all back: it traded at $1.44 at 4:00 p.m., below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.65 | |
| 9:00 a.m. | News (Accesswire): Olenox Industries Highlights Transformational Year and Expanding Energy-to-Compute Platform | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.55, up 4.4% from the previous close | |
| 9:38 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.49 | |
| 9:48 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.45 | |
| 9:49 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.66 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.44, 41.2% 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
- $1.49
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.55
- Gap at the open
- +4.4%
- Pre-market high
- $1.65 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.45 at 9:48 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.42
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.44
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −3.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.50 at 4:16 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.36 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 58,994
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 7.7×
- Float
- 1.66 million shares, from filings as of August 26, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.66 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 38 minutes after the latest news item before it (Accesswire, 9:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 69,582 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 2.96 million in the first 30 minutes (67%), and 1.39 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (31%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.66 million shares: past it once at 9:49 a.m., twice at 10:07 a.m.
- Other days OLOX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 7, the latest on October 21, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:38 a.m. | 9:48 a.m. | 10 min 1 s | up 29.3% | $2.40, up 18.2% | down 23.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:50 a.m. | 9:55 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 9.9% | $1.87, up 2.2% | down 14.4% | 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.
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