Recaps · August 10, 2026

AUUD, August 10: a 7:00 headline, a $1.42 wall, and $1.80

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: pre-market
• Catalyst: news
• Float traded 9x
• Ask wall break
• Lower high
• Gap and fade

Float

5.36 million shares

Volume

50.27 million shares

Previous close

$0.8222

Open

$1.43 (up 73.9%)

High

$1.80 at 8:14 a.m.

Close

$1.31

Quiet until 7:00

AUUD closed the day before, August 7, at $0.82. That day it traded 113,599 shares, with a high of $1.03.

On the 10th the first trade came at 4:00 a.m., at $0.82. For the next three hours it barely moved. Trades were small and far apart, and the price stayed between about $0.82 and $0.87.

The headline, then 7:35

At 7:00 a.m. GlobeNewsWire ran: “Auddia Announces SEC Effectiveness of S-4 Registration Statement Clearing Major Merger Milestone”. At 7:01 a.m. MCAP MediaWire ran the same headline.

The 7:00 minute went up to $0.9135. It didn't hold. By 7:08 it was at $0.85. Until about 7:31 it chopped between about $0.85 and $0.92, on small volume.

At 7:35 a.m. it traded through $1.00 for the first time, to $1.03. From there the volume came. The 7:35 and 7:36 minutes each traded over 30,000 shares. The 7:41 minute traded 462,995. The 7:43 minute traded 1.18 million and reached $1.44.

The first push peaked at $1.51 at 7:45 a.m. By 7:46 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (5.36 million). That was 46 minutes after the headline and 11 minutes after the first print above $1.00.

The wall at $1.42

After the 7:45 high it pulled back to $1.23 at 7:48, then ran to $1.58 at 7:50. At 7:52:02 a large ask wall appeared at exactly $1.42. It peaked at 206,777 shares at 7:52:03, about 4% of the float.

Here's what happened. From 7:53:04 to 7:53:05, 45,133 shares traded at $1.42, and the wall was gone at 7:53:06.

The break didn't run. The 7:53 minute topped at $1.46. By 7:54 the stock was down to $1.28.

$1.80 and the walls after it

At 8:00 a.m. it came back hard. That minute went from $1.44 to $1.63 on 1.56 million shares. At 8:01:19 a bid wall appeared at $1.55. It peaked at 181,250 shares at 8:03:31, then was pulled at 8:05:48. It reached $1.73 at 8:07.

At 8:14 a.m. it reached $1.80. At 8:14:20, just under the top, the screen showed $1.79 with 30,071 shares offered, and a 5,000-share buy would have averaged $1.79. By 8:17 it was trading at $1.65.

Two more ask walls built above the price. At 8:18:36 one appeared at $1.70, peaking at 142,021 shares. At 8:21:09 another appeared at $1.64. It peaked at 149,589 shares at 8:21:12, about 2.8% of the float.

At 8:27:42 the wall started to trade. In 2.8 seconds, 37,160 shares traded at exactly $1.64, and the wall was eaten at 8:27:46.

Breaking the wall didn't bring a new high. The 8:27 minute topped at $1.65, and by 8:35 the stock had dropped to $1.42. It reached $1.38 at 8:38 a.m., down 23% from $1.80.

The lower high and the open

It bounced. At 8:52:17 a buy of 57,119 shares swept $1.51 to $1.53. At 9:02 a.m. it pushed to $1.64, a lower high under the $1.80 top. It then slid to $1.31 by 9:20.

The open was $1.43, up 74% from the $0.82 previous close. At 9:30:00 on the open a single print of 51,066 shares went through at $1.42. At 9:30:02 a new ask wall showed at $1.49. It grew to 155,463 shares by 9:34:48.

A 66,721-share buy swept $1.45 to $1.47 at 9:33:58, and the stock got no higher than $1.48 while that wall stood. The wall was pulled at 9:55:14, when the price was about $1.28.

The rest of the day

The stock had already slid to $1.21 at 9:49 a.m. A 147,722-share buy at 10:35:40 swept $1.47 to $1.50, and the stock touched $1.54. A new ask wall showed at $1.50 at 10:45:13 and peaked at 145,091 shares at 12:27:47. The 10:45 minute dropped to $1.25.

The low after the open was $1.07 at 12:53 p.m. After that it crept back. A 79,545-share buy at 3:42:53 p.m. swept $1.27 to $1.30. It closed the regular session at $1.31, 27% below the $1.80 high.

After hours it stayed between about $1.21 and $1.32. Then at 7:59 p.m., on 75,249 shares, it printed $1.36.

Volume: 35.74 million shares traded pre-market, 13.73 million in the regular session, and 802,201 after hours. For the whole day that was 50.27 million shares, the float changing hands about 9 times. Relative volume was about 818.

What to take from it

• A wall's peak size isn't what trades. The $1.42 ask wall peaked at 206,777 shares, but 45,133 traded at that price while it was eaten.
• A wall breaking doesn't mean a new high is coming. The $1.64 ask wall was eaten with a $0 difference on the fill. The stock then fell to $1.38 by 8:38 instead of making a new high.
• After the top, the next push stopped lower. $1.80 at 8:14 a.m., then $1.64 at 9:02 a.m. It closed at $1.31, 27% below the high.