Recaps · August 19, 2026

AZI, August 19: a 7:15 headline, the $2.00 wall, and $2.10

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: the afternoon
• Catalyst: news
• Round-number break
• Lower high after the top
• Float traded 103x

Float

189,452 shares

Volume

20.07 million shares

Previous close

$1.15

Open

$1.24 (up 7.8%)

High

$2.10 at 2:08 p.m.

Close

$1.65

The day before

On August 18, AZI was quiet. It traded between $1.15 and $1.26 on 49,099 shares and closed at $1.15. The float is 189,452 shares, so a few hundred thousand shares of volume would be a lot.

Pre-market: the float traded by 5:26 a.m.

The first trades on the 19th were at $1.20, above the $1.15 close. Then almost nothing happened. Fewer than 1,000 shares traded between 4:00 and 4:39 a.m., and there were no trades at all until 5:22.

At 5:22 it woke up. By 5:23 it was at $1.37, and the 5:24 minute alone traded 105,060 shares. By 5:26 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (189,452). By 5:36 a.m. that was ten times the float.

It was not a straight line up. The 5:26 minute reached $1.43. Then the 5:29 minute fell to $1.00 and at 5:30 it hit $0.94, down 34% from $1.43 four minutes earlier.

It recovered fast. The pre-market high was $1.55 at 5:37 a.m. Then it dropped to $1.23 at 5:38 and ran to $1.42 at 5:40. At 5:40:29 a single 23,881-share print went through at $1.37, and in the same second a sell order swept 39,073 shares from $1.37 to $1.35. It fell to $1.09 at 5:42. By 5:55 it was back at $1.46. After that it drifted down for more than an hour, to $1.15 at 7:03 a.m., right at the previous close. 8.22 million shares traded before the bell.

At 7:15 a.m. GlobeNewsWire ran: “Autozi Internet Technology (Global) Ltd. (Nasdaq: AZI) Announces Receipt of US$30 Million Investment to Accelerate Strategic Growth”. The 7:15 minute traded 250,591 shares, and a 29,866-share buy order swept ten price levels from $1.18 to $1.27 in the first seconds. By 7:16 it had touched $1.39. It faded back to $1.20 by 7:32.

The open and the first try

It opened at $1.24, up 8% from the previous close. A 24,554-share print went through at $1.23 at 9:30:00. It worked up to $1.31 by 9:33.

A bigger push came at 10:13. In two minutes it went from $1.36 to $1.53 at 10:14, stayed under the $1.55 pre-market high, and was back at $1.34 by 10:17. A 16,434-share buy print at $1.50 went through at 10:15.

For the next hour and a half it held between about $1.33 and $1.49. Then, at 11:41, it cleared the pre-market high.

The wall at $2.00

The 11:41 minute went from $1.49 to $1.62 on 151,053 shares. In the same minute, at 11:41:40, a large ask appeared at exactly $2.00. It grew. It peaked at 77,102 shares at 11:53:48, about 41% of the float.

The stock ran toward it. It reached $1.73 at 11:47, then $1.81 at 11:52, and the 11:53 minute went to $1.88 on 372,959 shares. At 11:53:50 a sell order swept 55,392 shares from $1.85 to $1.78 across eight levels. By 11:59 it was at $1.93, just under the wall. At 12:00 it fell to $1.73, and the 12:06 minute dipped to $1.57.

From 12:07 p.m. it chopped for about an hour and a half, between $1.54 and $1.81 until 1:37 p.m. At 1:38 it spiked to $1.88 and was back at $1.71 two minutes later. Through all of it, the $2.00 ask stayed on the book.

Here's what happened. At 1:52:59 a 48,871-share buy order swept five levels, from $1.99 to $2.03. In that same second, 37,242 shares traded at exactly $2.00, and by 1:53:00 the wall was gone. Buyers ate it. In the same second a new ask wall appeared at $2.50. It peaked at 84,161 shares at 1:57, about 44% of the float.

The 1:54 minute reached $2.07. It did not hold. At 1:55 a sell order took 32,798 shares from $2.00 down to $1.96, and by 1:57 it was at $1.86.

Back above $2.00

Between 1:58 and 2:05 it traded between $1.80 and $1.97. At 2:05 a big bid appeared at $1.89. It peaked at 77,235 shares at 2:05:59, about 41% of the float.

The 2:08 minute went to $2.10, the high of the day, on 157,371 shares. At 2:08:43 the $1.89 bid was pulled. By 2:13 it traded as low as $1.93.

It pushed back to $2.08 at 2:16. That was a lower high than $2.10.

The rest of the day

From there it slid. It was $1.77 at 2:29, $1.66 at 2:40, and $1.58 at 2:56 p.m., down 25% from $2.10.

It came back once more. At 3:19 p.m. it pushed to $1.76, a lower high under the $2.10 top. From there it faded: a low of $1.61 at 3:53 p.m., and $1.65 at the close.

After hours it kept slipping, to $1.36 by 7:59 p.m., on 535,232 shares.

The regular session traded 11.31 million shares and pre-market another 8.22 million. Together that was 19.53 million, so the float changed hands about 103 times. Relative volume was 12.6.

What to take from it

• After the top, the pushes stopped lower. $2.10 at 2:08 p.m., then $2.08 at 2:16 and $1.76 at 3:19 p.m.
• A big ask wall can sit for two hours and still break in a second. The $2.00 wall appeared at 11:41 and was gone at 1:53. The price right after it was thin: a 5,000-share buy cost $53 more than the screen showed.
• The float traded over before the open. By 5:26 a.m. more shares had traded than the float holds.