Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 3, 2026
FCUV on August 3, 2026: why it ran
On August 3, 2026, FCUV opened up 34.9% from the previous close of 11.50 and reached 21.00 at 4:00 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it 2 times.
- Previous close
- 11.50
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 15.51
- Gap at the open
- up 34.9%
- Pre-market high
- 21.00 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 21.00 at 4:00 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 9.30
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 11.68 at 4:03 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 11.46
- Volume
- 6.11 million
- Relative volume
- 2.5x
- Float
- 601,411 shares, from filings as of August 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 702,811
Replay FCUV's day
It starts at 2:11 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 2:14 p.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The day, step by step
- Small cap
- Momentum
- Main move: pre-market
- Gap, run and fade
- Halted twice
- Float traded 10x
The day before
On July 31, FCUV ran from $1.95 to $18.79. It closed at $11.50.
After hours it was back up to $17.10. So the stock came into the 3rd already well above that close.
Pre-market: the high came in the first minute
The first trades on the 3rd were at $18.70, already above the $11.50 close. In the very first minute, 4:00 a.m., it hit $21.00, the high so far. That candle traded 80,348 shares.
It did not hold. It fell to $16.54 at 4:08 a.m., down 21% from the top.
It slid to around $15 by 4:56, then climbed back to about $17 by 6:00. At 7:00 a.m. it started to run again. At 7:09 a.m. it pushed to $20.50, a lower high under the $21.00 top. That minute traded 124,649 shares.
Later, a bid wall of 21,215 shares (3.5% of the float) sat at $18.50. It was first seen at 7:17:22 and pulled at 7:19:28.
Then came a flush. From 7:57 to 7:59 a.m. the stock fell from about $17.30 to a low of $13.71. By 8:00 it was back at $15.69. By 9:29 it was $15.47. About 2.95 million shares traded before the bell.
The open and a wall at $20
It opened at $15.51, up 35% from the previous close. A single print of 22,569 shares went through at $15.51 at 9:30:00. The 9:30 candle dipped to $14.50.
Then it ran. The 9:33 candle closed at $16.53 and the 9:34 candle at $17.18 on 96,867 shares. At 9:40 it reached $17.90, well under the $21.00 pre-market top.
At 9:40:39 an ask wall showed up at $20.00.
Stop It's 9:41. FCUV is at $16.75. It opened at $15.51 and traded $17.90 a minute ago, and an ask wall has just appeared at $20.00. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 9:41 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 9:38 a.m. ET.
Here's what happened. The stock stayed between $16.55 and $17.34 through 9:45. At 9:46 the candle ran from a $17.88 high down to $15.15 on 109,623 shares. At 9:47:10 it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $15.15.
It reopened at 9:52:10 at $15.13. A 13,759-share print went through at $15.13 at that second. By 9:55 the candle had dropped to $13.75, and it closed that minute at $14.32.
Midday: sweeps in a range
From 10:35 to 11:44, the stock stayed between about $14.20 and $16.05. Several large orders swept through the book in that stretch.
At 10:35:36 a buy of 14,916 shares ran from $14.80 to $15.33 across 38 levels. At 10:38:57 a sell of 13,989 shares went from $15.00 to $14.60. At 11:23:40 a buy of 17,997 shares took it from $15.35 to $16.05, and 20 seconds later a 14,224-share sell ran from $15.65 down to $14.96.
At 11:30:07 a 16,884-share print crossed at $15.25, at the bid, and a 19,605-share buy went through the same second. At 11:43:49 a sell of 19,960 shares ran from $15.18 to $14.85. A buy of 16,324 shares went through at 11:44:50.
The $20.00 ask wall from 9:40 stayed on the book. It peaked at 25,293 shares (4.2% of the float) at 12:17.
None of that turned into a new high. After noon it drifted lower: $13.64 at 12:29, $11.58 at 1:26 p.m., and $9.30 at 2:14 p.m.
The afternoon low
Stop It's 2:27 p.m. FCUV is at $9.97, close to the $9.30 low it made at 2:14. It has been trading in a tight range near $9.90 for ten minutes. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 2:27 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 2:24 p.m. ET.
Here's what happened. The 2:27 candle went to $10.70 and closed at $10.61. In the next minute it reached $11.00. At 2:28:23 it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $11.00.
It reopened at 2:33:23 at $11.10.
After the reopen the stock touched $11.47 at 2:34. It then faded back toward $10.65 by 2:49. It bounced at 3:04 and again at 3:40, when a 28,267-share candle ran to $11.88. It closed at $11.47, about four cents under the $11.50 previous close and 45% under the $21.00 high.
The regular session traded 3.08 million shares. With pre-market included, 6.03 million shares traded by the close: the float changed hands about 10 times, at about 2.5 times its normal volume. Another 79,066 shares traded after hours.
What to take from it
- After the top, the next push stopped lower. $21.00 at 4:00 a.m., then $20.50 at 7:09 a.m., then a $17.90 high in the regular session.
- Halt reopens are thin. A 5,000-share buy one second after the 2:33 p.m. reopen paid $1,819 more than the screen showed.
- Nearly half the volume came before the open. About 2.95 million shares traded pre-market, roughly five times the float. The stock ended the day four cents under the previous close.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for FCUV published between the previous session's close and the first minute FCUV 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 34.9% to 15.51 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 17.90 in 10 minutes, then gave back 269% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 11.46.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 11.50 | |
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, 21.00 | |
| 4:00 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 21.00 | |
| 4:49 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 601,411 shares | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 15.51, up 34.9% from the previous close | |
| 9:47 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:52 a.m. | |
| 2:28 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 2:33 p.m. | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 11.46, 45.4% 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: 2.95 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (48%), 840,180 in the first 30 minutes (14%), and 2.32 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (38%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 601,411 shares: past it once at 4:49 a.m., twice at 6:53 a.m., three times at 7:14 a.m.
- The halt at 9:47 a.m.: down 9.9% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 15.13, down 0.1% from the last trade before it, then down 3.7% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 2:28 p.m.: up 11.4% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 11.10, up 0.9% from the last trade before it, then up 0.4% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days FCUV met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on September 3, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:47 a.m. | 9:52 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:28 p.m. | 2:33 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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.
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