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ATGL on August 7, 2026: why it ran

Published October 9, 2026 · By Hindsight Markets

On August 7, 2026, ATGL opened up 5.2% from the previous close of 7.49 and reached 27.00 at 11:54 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it 11 times.

Previous close

7.49

Open, 9:30 a.m.

7.88

Gap at the open

up 5.2%

Pre-market high

not available

High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.

27.00 at 11:54 a.m.

Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.

7.50

After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

8.95 at 4:03 p.m.

Last trade before 4:00 p.m.

8.35

Volume

433,105

Relative volume

154.5x

Float

1.48 million shares, from filings as of August 7, 2026

Shares outstanding

15.26 million

Halts

11

Why it ran

News and SEC filings for ATGL published between the previous session's close and the first minute ATGL traded 20% above it, at 10:52 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 up 5.2% at 7.88, then ran from the open to the high of 27.00 in 144 minutes through 5 halts.

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: 0 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 13 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 433,092 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
• The halt at 10:37 a.m.: up 9.8% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 9.84, up 18.7% from the last trade before it, then up 1.6% over the next 5 minutes.
• The halt at 11:01 a.m.: up 18.6% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 14.28, up 20.4% from the last trade before it.
• The halt at 11:21 a.m.: up 32.5% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 18.04, up 14.8% from the last trade before it.
• The halt at 11:33 a.m.: up 26.3% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 23.80, up 20.0% from the last trade before it, then up 10.0% over the next 5 minutes.
• The halt at 11:49 a.m.: up 32.0% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 26.97, up 3.0% from the last trade before it.
• The halt at 11:54 a.m.: down 5.8% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 21.01, down 14.8% from the last trade before it, then up 5.2% over the next 5 minutes.
• The halt at 12:07 p.m.: down 10.4% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 19.01, down 14.0% from the last trade before it, then down 3.5% over the next 5 minutes.
• The halt at 12:25 p.m.: up 13.5% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 17.80, down 7.7% from the last trade before it, then down 11.9% over the next 5 minutes.
• The halt at 12:32 p.m.: down 18.7% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 14.51, down 7.5% from the last trade before it, then down 8.5% over the next 5 minutes.
• The halt at 12:44 p.m.: down 15.4% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 13.28, unchanged from the last trade before it, then down 0.5% over the next 5 minutes.
• The halt at 1:08 p.m.: down 11.3% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 11.12, up 2.3% from the last trade before it, then down 11.2% over the next 5 minutes.

Halts

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.