Recaps · August 6, 2026

CELZ, August 6: a 9:15 headline, three halts, and $1.75

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Gap, run and fade
• Catalyst: news (patent)
• Premarket high break
• Halted three times
• Bid wall eaten
• Float traded 15x

Float

6.56 million shares

Volume

104.71 million shares

Previous close

$0.6688

Open

$1.16 (up 73.4%)

High

$1.75 at 11:01 a.m.

Halts

3 (10:50 a.m. and 10:56 a.m. and 11:02 a.m.)

Close

$1.15

The day before

On August 5, CELZ ran from $0.66 to $1.06. It gave almost all of it back and closed at $0.67.

After hours it was back above $0.90. There was no news in the data for that evening.

Pre-market: the float traded by 5:58 a.m.

The first trades on the 6th were at $0.90, already above the $0.67 close. It drifted down to $0.78 at 4:10 a.m. and then ran to $0.99 at 5:54 a.m., up 27%.

By 5:58 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (6.56 million).

At 7:34 a.m. it traded through $1.00. From $0.88 at 7:16 a.m. it ran to $1.13 at 7:37 a.m., up 28%. The pre-market high came at 8:03 a.m., $1.37, after a run from $1.07 at 7:56 a.m. In all, 42.07 million shares traded before the bell.

At 9:15 a.m. GlobeNewsWire ran: “Creative Medical Technology Holdings, Inc. Receives Notice of Allowance for New U.S. Patent Covering Exosome-Based Immunotherapy for Type 1 Diabetes, Deepening IP Protection Across Its MyeloCelz™, CELZ-101 and CELZ-201 Diabetes Platforms”. The stock was trading around $1.19 at that minute.

The open, and a quiet hour

It opened at $1.16, up 73% from the previous close. A single 135,919-share trade printed at $1.16 at 9:30:01.

The open did not hold. It slid to $1.01 at 9:47, the low since the open. From 9:57 to 10:42 it stayed between about $1.06 and $1.17. At 10:42 it was at $1.14 and starting to climb.

Here's what happened. It cleared $1.37 in the 10:50 minute and ran to $1.40. At 10:50:59 it was halted (a volatility pause), with the last trade at $1.40.

The first reopen

At 10:50:46, just before the halt, a bid for stock appeared at exactly $1.40. It peaked at 486,331 shares at 10:50:55, about 7% of the float. It was pulled at 10:53:24, while the halt was still on.

The stock reopened at 10:55:59 at $1.45, above where it stopped.

Here's what happened. In the 10:56 minute it ran from $1.46 to $1.60. At 10:56:27 it was halted again with the last trade at $1.60.

From 10:56:13 on, someone was bidding for a lot of stock at exactly $1.60. It peaked at 478,060 shares at 10:56:27, about 7% of the float, as the halt began.

The halt ended at 11:01:27, and the reopen print was $1.69, 382,464 shares in a single trade. From 11:01:27 to 11:01:37, 133,952 shares traded at exactly $1.60 and the wall was gone. At 11:01:37 a 249,126-share sell order went through seven price levels, from $1.66 down to $1.60.

In between, it touched $1.75, the high of the day, in the 11:01 minute. By the end of that minute it was back at $1.49.

The third halt and $1.35

From 11:02:00 an offer appeared at $1.49. It peaked at 496,836 shares at 11:02:13, about 8% of the float. At 11:02:14 it was halted a third time (a volatility pause), with the last trade at $1.49. The offer was pulled at 11:03:28, during the halt.

It reopened at 11:07:14 at $1.45, below where it stopped. A 320,381-share trade printed at that price.

It kept sliding to $1.35 at 11:10 a.m., down 23% from $1.75. By 11:18 a.m. the day's volume was ten times the float.

The rest of the day, and after hours

It came back once more. At 1:53 p.m. it pushed to $1.65, a lower high under the $1.75 top. A 222,875-share buy order went through seven price levels, from $1.59 to $1.65, in that minute. A minute later it had touched $1.43.

At 2:22 p.m. it fell from $1.47 to $1.34 in a single minute. At 3:13 p.m. Benzinga ran: “Creative Medical Technology Stock Surges After Key Patent Win”. The stock was around $1.36 then.

From there it faded to $1.11 at 3:30 p.m. and $1.15 at the close.

From 4 a.m. to the 4 p.m. close, 98.54 million shares traded: the float changed hands about 15 times, at about 98 times its normal volume.

After hours it ran from $1.14 at 4:03 p.m. to $1.55 by 4:53 p.m., up 36%.

What to take from it

• After the top, the next push stopped lower. $1.75 at 11:01 a.m., then $1.65 at 1:53 p.m.
• A halt reopen can go either way. The 10:56 a.m. halt stopped at $1.60 and reopened at $1.69. The 11:02 a.m. halt stopped at $1.49 and reopened at $1.45.
• A big wall can disappear fast, and a halt can hide when it goes. The 486,331-share bid at $1.40 was pulled at 10:53:24, during the first halt, and the 496,836-share offer at $1.49 was pulled at 11:03:28, during the third. The day closed at $1.15, 34% below the $1.75 high.