Recaps · August 19, 2026

CDTG, August 19: seven halts, $8.33, and a $3.15 bid

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: the afternoon
• Gapped down, then ran
• Halted seven times
• Lower high
• Float traded 6x
• Faded to the close

Float

2.84 million shares

Volume

17.68 million shares

Previous close

$3.28

Open

$2.92 (up 11.0%)

High

$8.33 at 2:32 p.m.

Halts

7 (9:58 a.m. and 11:12 a.m. and 12:07 p.m. and 12:17 p.m. and 12:24 p.m. and 2:44 p.m. and 3:29 p.m.)

Close

$3.03

The day before and pre-market

On August 18, CDTG ran from $3.15 to $8.48. It gave almost all of it back and closed at $3.28.

The first trades on the 19th were at $3.11, below that close. Pre-market was quiet. The high was $3.29 at 4:49 a.m., and just 140,923 shares traded before the bell. Later, from 9:03, a bid of up to 45,914 shares sat at $2.74 for a few minutes. It was pulled at 9:06.

The open and the first halts

It opened at $2.92, down 11% from the previous close, and dipped to $2.60 at 9:31. Then it climbed. By 9:57 it was at $3.44.

At 9:58:05 it was halted (a volatility pause). It reopened at 10:08 at $3.48 and chopped between about $2.90 and $4.01 until the next halt at 11:12.

At 11:12:51 it was halted again, after trading at $3.41. It reopened at 11:17:51 at $3.37, lower than where it stopped. It then pushed to $4.19 at 11:28.

At 12:01 a minute with 43,844 shares dropped it to $3.49. By 12:06 buyers were back. One buy sweep took 30,777 shares from $4.02 to $4.08 across 7 price levels.

Noon: three halts in 17 minutes

At 12:07:33 it was halted at $4.31. It reopened at 12:12:33 at $4.38 and ran to $5.33 by 12:17. At 12:17:56 it was halted again. It reopened at 12:22:56 at $5.46, and 34,572 shares printed in a single trade at that price.

It touched $5.63 in the next minute, then fell back to $4.87. At 12:24:03 it was halted for the third time since noon (the fifth of the day), for ten minutes. It reopened at 12:34:03 at $4.66, below the $4.86 it had traded at before the halt.

At 12:34 a bid of 106,972 shares at $4.55 appeared, about 3.8% of the float. Around the same time, an ask wall of 75,100 shares appeared at $5.97 (12:36:55). By 12:38 p.m., counting pre-market, more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (2.84 million).

Three runs and two walls

From $4.62 at 12:34 p.m. it ran to $5.91 at 12:50 p.m., up 28%. After a dip to $5.12 at 12:53, it ran to $6.56 at 1:03 p.m., up 28%.

The $5.97 ask wall left the book at 1:00:22 p.m. Just 1,254 shares traded at exactly $5.97, so most of it never traded there. At 1:02 another ask wall, 50,000 shares at $7.49, appeared. It was pulled at 1:03.

From $5.60 at 1:14 p.m. it ran to $7.49 at 1:24 p.m., up 34%. Then it spent an hour in a range, mostly $6.00 to $7.00.

The 2:30 p.m. push

At 2:21 p.m. it dipped to $6.44 and bounced. At 2:26 a buy sweep of 36,319 shares went from $7.20 to $7.44 across 25 price levels. At 2:27 another buy sweep took 32,730 shares from $7.48 to $7.63. By 2:31 it was trading around $7.50.

Here's what happened. At 2:32:06 a buy sweep of 31,454 shares ran from $7.73 to $7.93. At 2:32:13 another sweep took 69,699 shares from $7.97 to $8.32 across 34 levels. It hit $8.33, the high so far, in that minute. Within two minutes, at 2:34, it was back at $7.45.

A lower high and a halt

It came back once more. At 2:36 p.m. it pushed to $8.27, a lower high under the $8.33 top. From there it slid. It was $6.42 at 2:43.

At 2:44:03 it was halted at $6.42. The $4.55 bid from 12:34 left the book two seconds later.

Here's what happened. It reopened at 2:54:03 p.m. at $6.01, below where it stopped. The first print was 30,059 shares at $6.01. In the next minute it traded as low as $5.30.

The bid at $3.15 and the close

It kept falling: $4.67 at 3:01 p.m., $4.24 at 3:10, $3.80 at 3:20. From 3:11 p.m. on, a bid sat at exactly $3.15.

Here's what happened. The bid had grown to 104,656 shares by 3:29:43, about 3.7% of the float. At 3:29:43 trades printed at $3.15. In under a second, 104,834 shares traded at exactly $3.15 and the bid was gone. It wasn't pulled. Sellers hit it. One sell sweep of 118,403 shares ran from $3.27 to $3.14.

At 3:29:58 it was halted for the seventh time. It reopened at 3:34:58 at $3.13.

It dipped to $2.78 at 3:53 p.m. and finished at $3.03 at the close.

By the close, 17.19 million shares had traded in the regular session: the float changed hands about 6 times.

What to take from it

• After the top, the next push stopped lower. $8.33 at 2:32 p.m., then $8.27 at 2:36 p.m.
• A halt can reopen lower than it stopped, and the book can be thin when it does. The 2:44 p.m. halt stopped at $6.42 and reopened at $6.01, and a 5,000-share buy cost $939 more than the screen showed.
• A big bid is not a floor. The 104,656-share bid at $3.15 was eaten in under a second, and the stock closed at $3.03, 64% below the $8.33 high.