Recaps · August 7, 2026

HUIZ, August 7: a $2.09 bid eaten in 1.5 seconds, seven halts, and $2.93

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: the afternoon
• No news in our data
• Bid wall break
• Halted seven times
• Lower high
• Faded to the close

Float

7.67 million shares

Volume

14.11 million shares

Previous close

$1.22

Open

$1.18 (up 3.3%)

High

$2.93 at 1:29 p.m.

Halts

7 (12:47 p.m. and 1:02 p.m. and 1:08 p.m. and 1:19 p.m. and 1:29 p.m. and 1:51 p.m. and 2:37 p.m.)

Close

$1.68

A quiet start

On August 6, 3,308 shares traded, and the official close was $1.22. We have no news headline or filing for August 7.

Pre-market was close to empty. The high was $1.23 at 5:25 a.m. Two minutes later it touched $1.05 on 110 shares, which was the low so far. 456 shares traded before the bell.

It opened at $1.18, down 3% from the previous close. Then nothing happened for a long time. It sat at $1.17 and $1.18, and no minute before 11:26 a.m. traded more than 374 shares. The low since the open was $1.17 at 10:03.

12:09: it wakes up

There was a small bump at 11:26, to $1.25 on 706 shares. At 11:54 it traded 1,432 shares, and by 11:57 it was at $1.30.

The real change came at 12:09. That one minute traded 16,172 shares, more than the whole day had traded up to then. From there it ran to $1.74 at 12:21 p.m., up 47% from the open.

It did not go straight up. It fell to $1.22 at 12:24, back to the previous close. By 12:27 it was at $1.61. It was back at $1.28 at 12:32 and $1.30 at 12:36.

At 12:43 it pushed to $1.78 on 146,525 shares in one minute. At 12:47:35 it was halted (a volatility pause), with the last trade at $1.96.

The reopen, and two quick halts

While the stock was halted, the order book kept building. From 12:49 on, a large bid sat at exactly $2.09. At 12:51 a second large bid appeared at $2.02, and it peaked at 90,305 shares at 12:54. The $2.09 bid peaked at 73,967 shares at 1:02 p.m.

It reopened at 1:02:23 p.m. at $2.40, 22% above where it stopped. The first trade was 100,814 shares. Two seconds later a single buy order of 64,828 shares swept from $2.50 to $2.70. The 1:02 minute reached $2.88.

At 1:02:43 a bid of up to 191,489 shares showed up at $2.88. At 1:02:57 it was halted again, and the $2.88 bid was pulled during the halt, at 1:06. It reopened at 1:07:57 at $2.86 on a 148,698-share print. The 1:07 minute fell as far as $2.29, and at 1:08:13 it was halted a third time. Above the market, an ask wall had formed at $2.29. It peaked at 80,398 shares.

The bid at $2.09

The third halt lasted ten minutes. Both bid walls, at $2.09 and $2.02, were still in the book, and the ask wall was still at $2.29.

Here's what happened. The reopen print was 105,575 shares at $2.15. From 1:18:19, shares began trading at exactly $2.09. In 1.5 seconds, 45,506 shares traded at exactly $2.09 and the wall was gone. It wasn't pulled. Sellers hit it. A second later 22,417 shares traded at exactly $2.02, and it touched $1.99, down 31% from $2.88.

Then it turned. At 1:18:33, 20,994 shares traded at exactly $2.29, and the ask wall was gone a second later. The 1:18 minute closed at $2.67. At 1:19 it was halted for a fourth time, with the last trade at $2.67.

The fourth reopen

It reopened at 1:29 p.m. at $2.92 and touched $2.93, the high so far. Within seconds, sell orders swept the book. One took 21,123 shares from $2.76 to $2.67. The next took 23,389 shares from $2.61 to $2.35. At 1:29:21 it was halted (the fifth halt), with the last trade at $2.34.

It reopened at 1:39:27 at $1.90, 19% below where it stopped. The 1:39 minute went as low as $1.46. At 1:40 p.m. it hit $1.27, down 57% from $2.93.

It bounced to $1.94 at 1:47 p.m., then fell to $1.37 at 1:51. At 1:51:48 it was halted for the sixth time. It reopened at 1:56:48 at $1.44.

The afternoon, and the close

From the 1:56 reopen to 2:35 p.m. it ranged between about $1.41 and $2.13. By 2:25 p.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (7.67 million). At 2:27 it was at $1.57, down 26% from $2.13.

At 2:36 it jumped from $1.84 to $2.19 in one minute, and at 2:37:30 it was halted for the seventh time. It reopened at 2:42:30 at $2.11. In the 2:42 p.m. minute it ran to $2.44 and closed the minute at $1.69.

It came back once more. At 2:47 p.m. it pushed to $2.45, a lower high under the $2.93 top. It pushed again to $2.43 at 2:54 and $2.33 at 3:09. From there it slid to $1.59 at 3:28 and closed at $1.68, 43% below the high.

By the close, 13.49 million shares had traded: the float changed hands about 1.8 times, at about 3,000 times its normal volume. It was halted seven times.

After hours it fell from $1.71 at 4:01 p.m. to $1.20 by 4:12 p.m., down 30%. It recovered to $1.54 by 7:59 p.m.

What to take from it

• A big bid is not a floor. The $2.09 bid, which peaked at 73,967 shares, was gone in 1.5 seconds once sellers came.
• Halt reopens can be thin. A 5,000-share buy after the 1:39 reopen cost $439 more than the screen showed, and the halt itself reopened at $1.90 after stopping at $2.34.
• After the top, the next push stopped lower. The high was $2.93 at 1:29 p.m. The highest later push reached $2.45 at 2:47 p.m., and the stock closed at $1.68.