Recaps · August 18, 2026

CDTG, August 18: a quiet morning, one halt, and $8.48

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: the afternoon
• Intraday run
• Ask wall break
• Halted once
• Faded into the close
• Float traded 5x

Float

2.84 million shares

Volume

15.28 million shares

Previous close

$2.80

Open

$2.94 (up 5.0%)

High

$8.48 at 2:57 p.m.

Halts

1 (2:16 p.m.)

Close

$3.29

The day before

On August 17, CDTG ran from $1.82 to $3.30. It gave some of it back and closed at $2.80.

Pre-market: up to $3.71

The first trades on the 18th were at $3.08, already above the $2.80 close. It drifted between about $2.82 and $3.19 until about 7 a.m.

From there it ran to the pre-market high, $3.71 at 7:40 a.m. The 7:40 minute alone traded 194,225 shares. 916,394 shares traded before the bell.

The open: a slow morning

It opened at $2.94, up 5% from the previous close. Then not much happened until about 11 a.m. It spent the morning around $3, and the low so far was $2.46 at 11:17 a.m., under the previous close.

The sell wall at $3.63

The run started at 11:31 a.m. Since 7:45 a.m., someone had been offering stock at exactly $3.63. At its biggest that was 38,162 shares, about 1.3% of the float. It was still there as the stock came up to it.

At 11:46:06 trades started printing at $3.63. In about five seconds, 32,208 shares traded at exactly $3.63, and the wall was gone at 11:46:12. One buy order of 28,726 shares swept from $3.63 to $3.70 across 6 levels.

It ran on to $4.55 at 11:55 a.m., up 74% from $2.61. Then it fell to $3.40 at 11:57 a.m., down 25% from $4.55.

The float changes hands, and the swings

It ran to $4.30 at 12:00 p.m., then fell to $3.37 at 12:05 p.m., down 22%. By 12:06 p.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (2.84 million).

Soon after, a bid appeared at $3.46. It grew to 120,600 shares by 12:25 p.m., about 4.2% of the float, and was pulled at 1:17 p.m.

From $3.81 at 12:25 p.m. it ran to $5.39 at 12:41 p.m., up 42%. A sell wall at $5.83 (peak 48,002 shares) was pulled at 12:41 p.m., the same minute as the $5.39 high.

From $4.37 at 12:49 p.m. it ran to $6.01 at 1:01 p.m., up 38%. Then it fell to $3.92 at 1:19 p.m., down 35% from $6.01.

One halt and $4.72 to $7.78

From $4.72 at 1:59 p.m. it ran to $7.78 at 2:15 p.m., up 65%. The buying came in big orders. At 2:12 p.m. one swept $6.00 to $6.04, and at 2:14 p.m. another swept $7.00 to $7.10.

At 2:16 p.m. it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $7.78.

It reopened at 2:21:13 p.m. at $7.00, 10% below where it stopped. The wall at $7.00 peaked at 100,477 shares, about 3.5% of the float. The reopening cross was a single 65,397-share print at $7.00. Apart from that print, 23,233 shares traded at exactly $7.00 in 2.4 seconds, and the wall was pulled at 2:21:16. That minute went as low as $6.60.

Back toward the high

It worked back up from $6.33 at 2:49 p.m.

The 2:56 minute ran to $8.00. Then $8.48, the high of the day, printed at 2:57 p.m. By 3:01 p.m. it had traded down to $7.28.

Then it fell to $4.31 at 3:16 p.m., down 49% from $8.48.

It came back once more. At 3:20 p.m. it pushed to $5.14, a lower high under the $8.48 top.

The bid at $3.65 and the close

From 3:16 p.m. on, someone was bidding for a lot of stock at exactly $3.65. It peaked at 133,204 shares at 3:30 p.m., about 5% of the float.

The bid stayed until 3:56 p.m. At 3:56:33 p.m. trades started printing at $3.65, and in under a second, 57,917 shares traded at $3.65 and the bid was eaten. Sellers hit it.

It closed at $3.29, 61% under the $8.48 high of the day.

For the whole day to the close, 14.84 million shares traded: the float changed hands about 5 times, at 41 times its normal volume.

What to take from it

• A halt can reopen lower than it stopped. The 2:16 p.m. halt stopped at $7.78 and reopened at $7.00.
• After the top, the next push stopped lower. $8.48 at 2:57 p.m., then $5.14 at 3:20 p.m.
• Almost all of the move was gone by the close. It closed at $3.29, 61% below the $8.48 high.