Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 5, 2026
JDZG on August 5, 2026: why it ran
On August 5, 2026, JDZG opened up 13.6% from the previous close of 3.23 and reached 5.17 at 9:47 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it 3 times.
- Previous close
- 3.23
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 3.67
- Gap at the open
- up 13.6%
- Pre-market high
- 5.05 at 4:52 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.17 at 9:47 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.07
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.82 at 4:00 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 3.65
- Volume
- 1.47 million
- Relative volume
- 19.7x
- Float
- 5.14 million shares, from filings as of August 5, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 5.43 million
Replay JDZG's day
It starts at 9:29 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:32 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 open
- Low float
- Pre-market spike
- Halt run
- Halted three times
- Faded into the close
Pre-market: a spike to $5.05 and a drop to $3.07
On August 4, JDZG's range was $3.20 to $4.20. The official close was $3.23. The first trades on the 5th were at $3.41, already above that.
It sat near $3.40 for most of the first 40 minutes, on very little volume. At 4:42 a.m. it started to move. At 4:49 it was $3.72. At 4:50 it hit about $4.53, on 26,647 shares in that one minute.
The big minute came next. At 4:52 a.m. it hit the pre-market high of $5.05, on 106,020 shares. That was the busiest minute of the morning. It was $4.27 at the end of that minute.
Then it dropped. At 4:57 a.m. it fell to $3.07, down 39% from $5.05, on 88,892 shares. It bounced to $3.96 by 5:04 a.m.
After that it drifted. It slid to $3.26 by 5:52 a.m. and traded between $3.20 and $3.42 from 5:53 until 9:06. At 9:28 it popped to $3.77 on 13,617 shares. 933,208 shares traded before the bell, about 18% of the 5.14 million float.
The open and the first halt
It opened at $3.67, up 14% from the $3.23 close. It crept up to $3.86 by 9:36.
Then the 9:37 minute jumped to $4.16. At 9:37:50 it was halted (a volatility pause). The last trade was $4.16.
Stop It's 9:47. JDZG has been halted for more than nine minutes after its last trade at $4.16. It is still paused, with a reopen pending. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 9:47 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 9:44 a.m. ET.
It reopened at 9:47:51 at $4.75, 14% above where it stopped. One print came in right away: 37,340 shares at $4.75. Within the same minute it hit $5.17, the high so far.
The top did not hold. At 9:48:02 a sell order of 13,240 shares went through the book from $4.75 down to $4.28, across 30 price levels. The 9:48 candle closed at $4.32. The 9:49 candle closed at $4.16.
The second halt
At 9:49:31 it was halted again, with the last trade at $4.16. It reopened at 9:54 at $4.01, 4% below where it stopped.
It kept sliding. At 9:58 it hit $3.58, down 31% from $5.17.
Stop It's 10:04. JDZG is at $3.82 and has climbed from $3.58 in the last six minutes. It has been halted twice already this morning. 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.
At 10:04:59 it was halted a third time with the last trade at $4.08. It reopened at 10:09:59 at $4.06.
The reopen did not lead anywhere. At 10:11 it hit $3.70.
The rest of the day
From 10:15 until 11:17 it traded between $3.61 and $4.05. Then it pushed again. At 11:23 it reached $4.25, a lower high under the $5.17 top. The next minute it fell back to $3.84 on 15,218 shares.
From there it faded: $3.50 at 1:19 p.m., the low after the open. The 3:59 p.m. minute closed at $3.65.
Regular-session volume was 507,871 shares, about 10% of the 5.14 million float. The whole day was 1.47 million shares, and relative volume was about 20.
What to take from it
- A halt reopen can be very thin. The two reopens measured cost $507 and $785 over the screen on a 5,000-share buy.
- A halt can reopen higher than it stopped, and still fail. The first reopened at $4.75 from $4.16, and the 9:49 candle closed back at $4.16.
- After the top, the next push stopped lower. $5.17 at 9:47, then $4.25 at 11:23. The 3:59 p.m. minute closed at $3.65, 29% below the high.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for JDZG published between the previous session's close and the first minute JDZG traded 20% above it, at 4:50 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 13.6% to 3.67 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 5.17 in 17 minutes through a halt, then gave back 101% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 3.65.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:50 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 3.23 | |
| 4:52 a.m. | Pre-market high, 5.05 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 3.67, up 13.6% from the previous close | |
| 9:37 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:47 a.m. | |
| 9:47 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 5.17 | |
| 9:49 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:54 a.m. | |
| 10:04 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 10:09 a.m. | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 3.65, 29.4% 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: 933,208 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (64%), 248,110 in the first 30 minutes (17%), and 286,461 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (20%).
- The halt at 9:37 a.m.: up 12.7% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 4.75, up 14.2% from the last trade before it, then down 12.4% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 9:49 a.m.: unchanged in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 4.01, down 3.6% from the last trade before it, then down 6.5% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 10:04 a.m.: up 12.1% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 4.06, down 0.5% from the last trade before it, then down 2.7% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days JDZG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 16, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:37 a.m. | 9:47 a.m. | 10 min 1 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:49 a.m. | 9:54 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:04 a.m. | 10:09 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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