Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 4, 2026
ZTG on August 4, 2026: why it ran
On August 4, 2026, ZTG opened up 1.8% from the previous close of 4.96 and reached 6.02 at 12:41 p.m. ET. The exchange halted it 3 times.
- Previous close
- 4.96
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 5.05
- Gap at the open
- up 1.8%
- Pre-market high
- 5.20 at 7:45 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 6.02 at 12:41 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.60
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 5.68 at 4:00 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 5.52
- Volume
- 1.09 million
- Relative volume
- 6.5x
- Float
- 4.07 million shares, from filings as of August 4, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 11.58 million
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for ZTG published between the previous session's close and the first minute ZTG traded 20% above it, at 12:41 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Intraday run. It opened up 1.8% at 5.05, then ran from the open to the high of 6.02 in 191 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:45 a.m. | Pre-market high, 5.20 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 5.05, up 1.8% from the previous close |
| 12:41 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 4.96 |
| 12:41 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 6.02 |
| 1:10 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 1:22 p.m. |
| 1:27 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 1:32 p.m. |
| 1:34 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 1:44 p.m. |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 5.52, 8.3% 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: 13,818 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 120,217 in the first 30 minutes (11%), and 953,413 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (88%).
- The halt at 1:10 p.m.: down 8.5% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 4.37, down 1.4% from the last trade before it, then down 12.1% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 1:27 p.m.: down 13.3% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.74, down 2.6% from the last trade before it, then up 7.5% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 1:34 p.m.: up 4.7% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 4.65, up 15.7% from the last trade before it, then up 7.7% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days ZTG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, the latest on September 21, 2026.
- The next session, August 5, 2026, it was up 19.0% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:10 p.m. | 1:22 p.m. | 12 min 9 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:27 p.m. | 1:32 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:34 p.m. | 1:44 p.m. | 10 min 1 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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