Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 3, 2026
STKH on August 3, 2026: why it ran
On August 3, 2026, STKH opened down 0.8% from the previous close of 2.40 and reached 4.75 at 10:05 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.
- Previous close
- 2.40
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 2.38
- Gap at the open
- down 0.8%
- Pre-market high
- 2.55 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.75 at 10:05 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.31
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.91 at 4:41 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 2.74
- Volume
- 2.82 million
- Relative volume
- 1.9x
- Float
- 501,809 shares, from filings as of August 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 591,689
Replay STKH's day
It starts at 9:46 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:49 a.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: the morning
- Halted once
- Halt reopen
- Lower high
- Bid wall
- Float traded 5x
Pre-market: quiet, up to $2.55
The first trades on the 3rd were at $2.52, above the $2.40 close. The pre-market high was $2.55 at 4:00 a.m., in the very first minute.
After that it drifted between about $2.31 and $2.55. 24,551 shares traded before the bell. It opened at $2.38, down 1% from the previous close.
The climb to the halt
At 9:46 a.m. it cleared the pre-market high of $2.55. At 9:55 a.m. it traded through $3.00. That minute alone had 9,576 shares, and the next minute had 49,122.
At 9:56:54 it was halted (a volatility pause). The last trade was $3.56. It reopened at 10:01:54 a.m. at $3.57. A single 39,220-share trade printed at $3.57 at the reopen.
The 10:02 minute reached $4.30, on 251,496 shares. By the end of 10:03, more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (501,809).
Two minutes after the reopen
Stop It's 10:04. STKH is at $3.99, up from a $2.40 close, after a halt reopen two minutes ago. The float has already traded once. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 10:04 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 10:01 a.m. ET.
Here's what happened. In the 10:04 minute it went from $3.99 to a high of $4.70 and closed at $4.69, on 277,285 shares. At 10:04:35 a single buy order of 12,588 shares swept from $4.15 to $4.25 across 10 price levels. Ten seconds later another, of 11,741 shares, ran $4.23 to $4.39 across 16 levels. At 10:04:52 a third bought 13,137 shares from $4.49 to $4.53.
The high so far was $4.75, in the 10:05 minute, up 98% from the previous close. That minute also traded as low as $4.11 and closed at $4.30.
Within four minutes it was back at $3.32. By 10:07 the bars were closing under $4.00.
A lower high at $3.87
At 10:10 a.m. it pushed to $3.87, a lower high under the $4.75 top, and closed that minute at $3.42.
The order book showed large asks above. An ask wall appeared at $3.90 at 10:10:38 and peaked at 37,982 shares (7.6% of the float). It was pulled at 10:15:55, and a new wall of about 35,000 shares formed at $3.70.
The bid at $3.16
At 10:08:28 a bid wall appeared at $3.10 and grew to 44,131 shares. At 10:09:46 it was pulled, and a new bid appeared at $3.16. It peaked at 43,700 shares at 10:15:42, 8.7% of the float. The 10:17 candle closed on $3.16 and the stock bounced from it.
Stop It's 10:23. STKH is at $3.21. Below it, a bid for tens of thousands of shares has sat at $3.16 for about 13 minutes, and the stock has not traded below it. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 10:23 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 10:20 a.m. ET.
Here's what happened. From 10:23:11 to 10:23:27, 17,713 shares traded at exactly $3.16 in 16.5 seconds, and the wall was gone. It was eaten at 10:23:28. Two minutes later, at 10:25, the stock dropped to $2.88.
The rest of the day
After 10:20 it did not trade above $3.30. It traded $2.88 at 10:25 a.m., fell to $2.58 at 11:27 a.m., and spent the afternoon around $2.72 to $2.98. It closed at $2.74.
By the close, 2.76 million shares had traded: the float changed hands about 5.5 times, at about 1.9 times its normal volume.
After the close, at 4:16 p.m., the company filed a 6-K (a foreign company's current report). The stock traded between $2.69 and $2.91 after hours, on 34,700 shares.
What to take from it
- After the top, the next push stopped lower. $4.75 at 10:05 a.m., then $3.87 at 10:10 a.m.
- Right after this halt reopen, a market buy cost more than the screen showed. Here, a 5,000-share buy averaged $1,015 above the screen at the reopen.
- A big bid is not a floor. The 43,700-share bid at $3.16 was gone by 10:23:28, after 17,713 shares traded at that price in 16.5 seconds.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for STKH published between the previous session's close and the first minute STKH traded 20% above it, at 9:52 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Intraday run. It opened down 0.8% at 2.38, then ran from the open to the high of 4.75 in 35 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, 2.55 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 2.38, down 0.8% from the previous close | |
| 9:52 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.40 | |
| 9:56 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 10:01 a.m. | |
| 10:03 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 501,809 shares | |
| 10:05 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 4.75 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 2.74, 42.3% 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: 24,551 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 74,464 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 2.72 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (96%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 501,809 shares: past it once at 10:03 a.m., twice at 10:05 a.m., three times at 10:08 a.m.
- The halt at 9:56 a.m.: up 30.9% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.57, up 0.3% from the last trade before it, then up 20.4% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days STKH met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 1, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:56 a.m. | 10:01 a.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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