Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 6, 2026
CELZ on August 6, 2026: why it ran
On August 6, 2026, CELZ opened up 73.4% from the previous close of 0.6688 and reached 1.75 at 11:01 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it 3 times.
- Previous close
- 0.6688
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 1.16
- Gap at the open
- up 73.4%
- Pre-market high
- 1.37 at 8:03 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.75 at 11:01 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.7802
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.55 at 4:53 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 1.15
- Volume
- 104.71 million
- Relative volume
- 97.8x
- Float
- 6.56 million shares, from filings as of August 6, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 6.59 million
Replay CELZ's day
It starts at 10:38 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:41 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
- Gap, run and fade
- Catalyst: news (patent)
- Premarket high break
- Halted three times
- Bid wall eaten
- Float traded 15x
The day before
On August 5, CELZ ran from $0.66 to $1.06. It gave almost all of it back and closed at $0.67.
After hours it was back above $0.90. There was no news in the data for that evening.
Pre-market: the float traded by 5:58 a.m.
The first trades on the 6th were at $0.90, already above the $0.67 close. It drifted down to $0.78 at 4:10 a.m. and then ran to $0.99 at 5:54 a.m., up 27%.
By 5:58 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (6.56 million).
At 7:34 a.m. it traded through $1.00. From $0.88 at 7:16 a.m. it ran to $1.13 at 7:37 a.m., up 28%. The pre-market high came at 8:03 a.m., $1.37, after a run from $1.07 at 7:56 a.m. In all, 42.07 million shares traded before the bell.
At 9:15 a.m. GlobeNewsWire ran: “Creative Medical Technology Holdings, Inc. Receives Notice of Allowance for New U.S. Patent Covering Exosome-Based Immunotherapy for Type 1 Diabetes, Deepening IP Protection Across Its MyeloCelz™, CELZ-101 and CELZ-201 Diabetes Platforms”. The stock was trading around $1.19 at that minute.
The open, and a quiet hour
It opened at $1.16, up 73% from the previous close. A single 135,919-share trade printed at $1.16 at 9:30:01.
The open did not hold. It slid to $1.01 at 9:47, the low since the open. From 9:57 to 10:42 it stayed between about $1.06 and $1.17. At 10:42 it was at $1.14 and starting to climb.
Stop It's 10:50. CELZ is at $1.27. The pre-market high of $1.37 is just above. The last minute traded more than a million shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 10:50 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 10:47 a.m. ET.
Here's what happened. It cleared $1.37 in the 10:50 minute and ran to $1.40. At 10:50:59 it was halted (a volatility pause), with the last trade at $1.40.
The first reopen
At 10:50:46, just before the halt, a bid for stock appeared at exactly $1.40. It peaked at 486,331 shares at 10:50:55, about 7% of the float. It was pulled at 10:53:24, while the halt was still on.
The stock reopened at 10:55:59 at $1.45, above where it stopped.
Stop It's 10:56. CELZ is at $1.46. It has just reopened from its first halt, which stopped it at $1.40. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 10:56 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 10:53 a.m. ET.
Here's what happened. In the 10:56 minute it ran from $1.46 to $1.60. At 10:56:27 it was halted again with the last trade at $1.60.
From 10:56:13 on, someone was bidding for a lot of stock at exactly $1.60. It peaked at 478,060 shares at 10:56:27, about 7% of the float, as the halt began.
The halt ended at 11:01:27, and the reopen print was $1.69, 382,464 shares in a single trade. From 11:01:27 to 11:01:37, 133,952 shares traded at exactly $1.60 and the wall was gone. At 11:01:37 a 249,126-share sell order went through seven price levels, from $1.66 down to $1.60.
In between, it touched $1.75, the high of the day, in the 11:01 minute. By the end of that minute it was back at $1.49.
The third halt and $1.35
From 11:02:00 an offer appeared at $1.49. It peaked at 496,836 shares at 11:02:13, about 8% of the float. At 11:02:14 it was halted a third time (a volatility pause), with the last trade at $1.49. The offer was pulled at 11:03:28, during the halt.
It reopened at 11:07:14 at $1.45, below where it stopped. A 320,381-share trade printed at that price.
It kept sliding to $1.35 at 11:10 a.m., down 23% from $1.75. By 11:18 a.m. the day's volume was ten times the float.
The rest of the day, and after hours
It came back once more. At 1:53 p.m. it pushed to $1.65, a lower high under the $1.75 top. A 222,875-share buy order went through seven price levels, from $1.59 to $1.65, in that minute. A minute later it had touched $1.43.
At 2:22 p.m. it fell from $1.47 to $1.34 in a single minute. At 3:13 p.m. Benzinga ran: “Creative Medical Technology Stock Surges After Key Patent Win”. The stock was around $1.36 then.
From there it faded to $1.11 at 3:30 p.m. and $1.15 at the close.
From 4 a.m. to the 4 p.m. close, 98.54 million shares traded: the float changed hands about 15 times, at about 98 times its normal volume.
After hours it ran from $1.14 at 4:03 p.m. to $1.55 by 4:53 p.m., up 36%.
What to take from it
- After the top, the next push stopped lower. $1.75 at 11:01 a.m., then $1.65 at 1:53 p.m.
- A halt reopen can go either way. The 10:56 a.m. halt stopped at $1.60 and reopened at $1.69. The 11:02 a.m. halt stopped at $1.49 and reopened at $1.45.
- A big wall can disappear fast, and a halt can hide when it goes. The 486,331-share bid at $1.40 was pulled at 10:53:24, during the first halt, and the 496,836-share offer at $1.49 was pulled at 11:03:28, during the third. The day closed at $1.15, 34% below the $1.75 high.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for CELZ published between the previous session's close and the first minute CELZ 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 73.4% to 1.16 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 1.75 in 91 minutes through two halts, then gave back 102% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 1.15.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 0.6688 | |
| 5:58 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 6.56 million shares | |
| 8:03 a.m. | Pre-market high, 1.37 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 1.16, up 73.4% from the previous close | |
| 10:50 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 10:55 a.m. | |
| 10:56 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 11:01 a.m. | |
| 11:01 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 1.75 | |
| 11:02 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 11:07 a.m. | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 1.15, 34.3% 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: 42.07 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (40%), 6.64 million in the first 30 minutes (6%), and 56.00 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (53%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 6.56 million shares: past it once at 5:58 a.m., twice at 7:37 a.m., three times at 7:48 a.m.
- The halt at 10:50 a.m.: up 16.7% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 1.45, up 3.6% from the last trade before it, then up 10.3% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 10:56 a.m.: up 14.3% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 1.69, up 5.6% from the last trade before it, then down 11.8% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 11:02 a.m.: down 6.9% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 1.45, down 2.7% from the last trade before it, then down 0.7% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days CELZ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on September 21, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:50 a.m. | 10:55 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:56 a.m. | 11:01 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 11:02 a.m. | 11:07 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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