Recaps · August 10, 2026

STKH, August 10: a wall that kept moving down, three halts, and $7.10

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: the morning
• No news in our data
• Moving ask wall
• Halt run
• Halted three times
• Gap, run and fade

Volume

37.59 million shares

Previous close

$1.88

Open

$3.86 (up 105.3%)

High

$7.10 at 10:18 a.m.

Halts

3 (9:37 a.m. and 9:47 a.m. and 9:53 a.m.)

Close

$4.28

Pre-market: up to $6.11

STKH closed August 7 at $1.88. We have no news headline or filing for August 10, so the chart is all there is to go on.

The first trades on the 10th were at $2.03, already above that close. It sat near $2 until 4:34 a.m. Then things sped up.

From $2.14 at 4:44 a.m. it ran to $4.55 at 4:46 a.m., up 113%. It reached $3.00 at 4:45 and $4.00 in the same minute. Then it fell to $2.35 at 4:47 a.m., down 48% from $4.55.

It did this again. It ran to $3.86 at 4:49, fell to $2.80 at 4:51, then ran to $4.70 at 4:54, up 68%. It reached $5.47 at 4:58 and fell to $3.58 at 5:01, down 35%.

From $4.41 at 5:08 a.m. it ran to the pre-market high, $6.11 at 5:17 a.m. After that it drifted. It got to $5.69 at 5:33, then fell to $4.36 at 5:45 a.m., down 23%. 13.65 million shares traded before the bell.

The wall that kept moving down

From 7:13 a.m. a big block of shares was offered for sale above the price in the combined book. It didn't stay at one price. At 7:13 it was at $5.40 (peak 156,596 shares at 7:19). That was pulled at 7:22, and the same kind of size showed up at $5.35 (peak 151,556 shares). That was pulled at 7:39.

Then it sat at $5.20, peaking at 163,435 shares at 7:54 a.m. At 8:03:44 it was pulled. At 8:04 a wall appeared at $5.01, peaked at 150,328 shares at 8:10, and was pulled at 8:17. It came back at $4.90 and grew to 157,212 shares at 9:08. It was pulled at 9:29:03, a minute before the open.

Through all five, the stock traded below the wall. It never traded up into any of them before they left.

The open and the first halt

It opened at $3.86, up 105% from the previous close. It slipped right away to $3.32 at 9:31 a.m., then turned up. From $3.48 at 9:32 it ran toward $4.93 by 9:36.

At 9:37 a.m. it was halted (a volatility pause), with the last trade at $4.93. It reopened at 9:42 a.m. at $4.94, and the first print was 116,592 shares at that price. From there it spiked to $5.56 at 9:42 a.m., up 60% from $3.48.

Over the next three minutes it pulled back and chopped between $4.50 and $5.42.

Here's what happened. At 9:46:56 one buy order swept 38,810 shares from $5.56 to $5.84 across 29 price levels. The 9:46 candle reached $6.04, and the next one reached $6.29.

Three halts in 21 minutes

A bid wall showed up at $6.29 at 9:47:35 and peaked at 126,606 shares at 9:47:44. At 9:47:48 it was halted again, with the last trade at $6.29.

It reopened at 9:52 a.m. at $6.05, 24 cents below where it stopped. The bid wall was pulled at 9:52:49. 1,235 shares traded at $6.29 as it came off. The first print was 77,996 shares at $6.05. It reached $6.33 at 9:52 a.m., up 41% from $4.50 at 9:45.

At 9:53 a.m. it was halted a third time (a volatility pause), with the last trade at $4.84. That is $1.49 under the $6.33 top, set a minute earlier. It reopened at 9:58 a.m. at $4.65, below where it stopped, on a 55,015-share print. The low of that minute was $4.64, down 27% from $6.33.

It bounced to $5.72 at 9:59. By 10:01 it was back at $4.64, and through 10:14 it chopped between $4.64 and $6.15.

Back above $6

From $5.00 at 10:09 a.m. it chopped higher, then started to move. It reached $6.14 by the end of the 10:15 minute.

Here's what happened. At 10:16:03 one buy order swept 87,046 shares from $6.20 to $6.78 across 58 price levels. It kept going: $7.10, the high of the day, at 10:18 a.m. By 10:19 it had dipped to $6.01.

The rest of the day

It came back once more. At 10:20 a.m. it pushed to $6.75, a lower high under the $7.10 top.

From there it faded: $5.36 at 10:24 a.m., $3.84 at 11:12 a.m. and $3.69 at 12:58 p.m., before ending the regular session at $4.28.

Through the close, 36.99 million shares traded (13.65 million pre-market and 23.35 million in the regular session), at 22 times its normal volume.

After hours it rose to $4.78 at 4:42 p.m. Then it fell to $3.19 by 7:30 p.m., down 33%.

What to take from it

• A wall can be pulled instead of traded. Five ask walls of about 150,000 shares each appeared and left between 7:13 and 9:29, and the stock never traded into them.
• A halt can reopen lower than it stopped, and the book is thin when it does. The 9:53 halt stopped at $4.84 and reopened at $4.65. A 5,000-share buy at the 9:52 reopen cost $664 more than the screen showed.
• After the top, the next push stopped lower. $7.10 at 10:18, then $6.75 at 10:20. The stock ended the regular session at $4.28.