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HCWB, September 24: an 8:25 a.m. headline and two halts

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HCWB opened near its previous close after an 8-K, then ran to $3.12 through two halts during the session.

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8-KNews$3.12$1.66$1.404 a.m.9:30noon4 p.m.8 p.m.
HCWB on September 24, 2026, one-minute bars, New York time. Bands: halts. Flags: the news or filing before the move. Dotted line: the previous close. Shaded: before the 9:30 a.m. open and after the 4:00 p.m. close.

What happened

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Headline, then a run

The day's news hit before the bell. An 8:25 a.m. headline on a $1.5 million private placement knocked it to $1.40. It opened at $1.69 and climbed.

Stop It's 10:03. HCWB is at $1.97, above its $1.79 pre-market high and just under $2.00. 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.

It ran to $2.38 that minute. At 10:04:05 it was halted.

Stop It's 10:29. HCWB has been halted since 10:04, with its last trade at $2.38. The previous close was $1.66. Would you buy when it reopens?

Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:26 a.m. and stop at 10:29 a.m. ET for your call.

The 10:29 reopen

At 10:29:01 it reopened at $3.12, 31% above the halt price. Two seconds later a large sell order swept it lower. A second halt came at 10:29:38.

Stop It's 11:11. HCWB is at $2.12. A wall of sellers has sat at $2.25, with up to about 34,000 shares, since 10:39. Would you buy here?

Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:08 a.m. and stop at 11:11 a.m. ET for your call.

Wall pulled, lower high

The sellers left. At 11:11:37 the $2.25 wall was pulled, and it reached $2.69 a minute later. The next push stopped at $2.84, under the top. It was $1.98 in the last regular minute.

What to take from it: On this day the halt reopen was the top, and each push after it stopped lower.

Replay HCWB's day

It starts at 9:53 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:56 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. It opened up 1.8% at $1.69, then ran from the open to the high of $3.12 in 59 minutes through a halt.

Time (ET)What happenedWatch it
5:20 a.m.Pre-market high, $1.79
8:25 a.m.News (GlobeNewsWire): HCW Biologics Announces Pricing of $1.5 Million Private Placement
8:30 a.m.SEC filing 8-K: 8-K
9:30 a.m.The open: $1.69, up 1.8% from the previous close
10:03 a.m.First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.66
10:29 a.m.High of the day to the close, $3.12
11:12 a.m.Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.65 million shares
3:59 p.m.Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.98, 36.5% 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
$1.66
Open, 9:30 a.m.
$1.69
Gap at the open
+1.8%
Pre-market high
$1.79 at 5:20 a.m.
High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$3.12 at 10:29 a.m.
Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$1.40
Close, 4 p.m.
$1.98
Change at 4 p.m.
+19.3%
After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
$2.00 at 4:59 p.m.
Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
4.63 million
Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
78,384
Relative volume by 8 p.m.
29.9×
Float
1.65 million shares, from filings as of September 24, 2026
Shares outstanding
1.84 million
  • From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 hour 32 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 8:30 a.m.).
  • Volume, from the one-minute bars: 32,787 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 13,837 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 4.66 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
  • Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.65 million shares: past it once at 11:12 a.m., twice at 11:24 a.m.
  • Other days HCWB met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 8, 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)
HaltedResumedLengthThe 5 minutes into itReopened at, against the last tradeThe 5 minutes afterReason in the feedWatch it
10:04 a.m.10:29 a.m.24 min 56 sup 31.5%$3.12, up 31.1%LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
10:29 a.m.10:34 a.m.5 min 0 sup 5.0%$2.45, down 2.0%down 10.6%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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