Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 3, 2026
CYCU on August 3, 2026: why it ran
On August 3, 2026, CYCU opened up 21.6% from the previous close of 0.8881 and reached 1.34 at 7:23 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 0.8881
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 1.08
- Gap at the open
- up 21.6%
- Pre-market high
- 1.34 at 7:23 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.34 at 7:23 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.8601
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.10 at 5:51 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 0.9149
- Volume
- 20.27 million
- Relative volume
- 1.3x
- Float
- 10.94 million shares, from filings as of August 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 11.47 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for CYCU published between the previous session's close and the first minute CYCU traded 20% above it, at 4:00 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 21.6% to 1.08 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 1.19 in 6 minutes, then gave back 250% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 0.9149.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 0.8881 |
| 7:23 a.m. | Pre-market high, 1.34 |
| 7:23 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 1.34 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 1.08, up 21.6% from the previous close |
| 9:35 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 10.94 million shares |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 0.9149, 31.7% below the high |
The shape is a fixed rule, not a judgement: gapped 10% or more at the open, ran 10% or more from the open to the high, and faded if it gave back 30% or more of that move by the close.
The day in numbers
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 9.61 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (47%), 3.30 million in the first 30 minutes (16%), and 7.35 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (36%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 10.94 million shares: past it once at 9:35 a.m.
- Other days CYCU met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 2, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for CYCU that day.
On this date the LULD plan ran under Amendment 18, in force from February 24, 2020: no band doubling at the open, and the closing doubling only for Tier 1 stocks and Tier 2 stocks whose previous close was at or below three dollars. See LULD halts or work out a band with the LULD calculator.
Trade this day
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