Recaps · August 12, 2026

BQ, August 12: three halts, $2.10, and a bid at $1.50

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: late morning
• Gap, run and fade
• Pre-market high break
• Halt run
• Halted three times
• Float traded 6x

Float

4.29 million shares

Volume

41.42 million shares

Previous close

$0.8070

Open

$0.8975 (up 11.2%)

High

$2.10 at 11:12 a.m.

Halts

3 (10:51 a.m. and 10:56 a.m. and 11:06 a.m.)

Close

$1.22

Pre-market: the float traded by 5:36 a.m.

The official previous close was $0.81. The first trades on the 12th were at $0.87, at 4:34 a.m. We have no headline for the day.

Nothing moved much until 4:56 a.m. Then it ran to $1.07 at 4:59 a.m. and fell to $0.84 at 5:01 a.m., down 21%.

By 5:36 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (4.29 million). The run to the pre-market high came right then. From $0.89 at 5:31 a.m. it went to $1.30 at 5:37 a.m.

It gave back 35% within 17 minutes. It was under $0.85 by 5:54 a.m. A second bounce reached $1.04 at 5:57 a.m. After that it bled lower to $0.75 at 7:21 a.m., down 28%. 14.18 million shares traded before the bell.

The open and a quiet hour

It opened at $0.90, up 11% from the previous close. In the first minute it dropped to $0.82.

From there, for the next hour, it stayed between about $0.83 and $0.95. It drifted up toward $0.95 by 10:30 a.m. Volume in most of those minutes was under 15,000 shares.

At 10:36 a.m. it traded above $1.00 for the first time in the regular session. At 10:45 it reached $1.23 on 454,986 shares in one minute. That was the loudest minute since the pre-market.

The pre-market high

At 10:50 the stock was sitting just under it.

It cleared $1.30 within the minute. Buyers swept 75,306 shares through $1.29 to $1.32 at 10:50:21. Six seconds later a sell sweep of 113,311 shares hit $1.39 to $1.37. The minute still closed at $1.46 on 804,828 shares.

At 10:51:06 it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $1.47. This is the part a chart doesn't show you. A bid for as many as 248,159 shares built at $1.46 and was pulled at 10:52:35. An ask wall formed at $1.47. It peaked at 117,078 shares at 10:52:31, about 2.7% of the float.

It reopened at 10:56:06. A single trade of 162,401 shares printed at $1.43 at 10:56:06. A buy sweep of 104,935 shares ran through 11 levels, from $1.39 to $1.49. The wall at $1.47 was eaten: 42,412 shares traded at exactly $1.47 in under a second.

Two more halts and the top

The 10:56 minute ran from a low of $1.39 to $1.72 on 1.19 million shares. At 10:56:38 it was halted again with the last trade at $1.72. During the minute, a bid for as many as 181,272 shares built at $1.72.

It reopened at 11:01:38. A trade of 120,471 shares printed at $1.65 at 11:01:38. The 11:01 bar opened at $1.77 and closed at $1.61. The $1.72 bid was pulled at 11:01:39. Then it fell hard: $1.27 at 11:02 and $1.24 at 11:03, down 30% from $1.77.

It ran again from $1.24. At 11:06:33 it was halted a third time (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $1.78. It reopened at 11:11:33 with a 90,005-share print at $1.80.

Two more buy sweeps went through at 11:11:43 and 11:11:44, from $1.98 to $2.04. The high so far was $2.10 at 11:12. The stock was down to $1.65 by 11:18, six minutes after the high.

A lower high, then the bid at $1.50

It dipped to $1.63 at 11:19, down 22% from $2.10. It came back once more. At 11:20 it pushed to $1.96, a lower high under the $2.10 top.

From 11:25 on, a large bid sat at exactly $1.50. It peaked at 160,623 shares at 11:27:10, about 3.7% of the float. A bid like that can look like a floor.

At 11:30:22 trades printed at $1.50. In under a second, 74,129 shares traded at exactly $1.50 and the bid was gone. Sellers hit it. A sell sweep of 134,643 shares ran from $1.51 to $1.47. The 11:30 minute reached a low of $1.27 on 761,386 shares.

The rest of the day, and after hours

It kept fading. It was at $1.16 at 11:35. Another bid wall sat at $1.16, peaking at 149,245 shares at 11:35:46. It was gone at 11:49:51, after 24,363 shares traded there. The stock made $1.39 at 11:59, $1.62 at 12:22 and $1.57 at 1:11 p.m. It then drifted back down to $1.22 at the close.

By the close, 26.46 million shares had traded in the regular session: the float changed hands about 6 times. Counting pre-market and after hours, 41.42 million shares traded on the day, about 1,150 times its normal volume.

After hours it bounced to $1.42 at 4:08 p.m. Then it slid to $1.06 by 7:59 p.m., down 25% from the bounce.

What to take from it

• After the top, the next push stopped lower. $2.10 at 11:12, then $1.96 at 11:20.
• A big bid is not a floor. The $1.50 bid reached 160,623 shares. It lasted about five minutes and then traded in under a second.
• Most of the move was gone by the close. It closed at $1.22, 42% below the $2.10 high, and the reopens were thin: $281 over the screen on a 5,000-share buy at 11:01:39.