CELZ on August 7, 2026: why it ran

The day, step by step

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: the open
• Gap and run
• Ask wall at $2.00
• Lower high
• No halts, faded
• Float traded 3x

The day before

On August 6, CELZ ran from $0.90 to $1.75. It gave most of it back and closed at $1.16. 104.7 million shares traded that day, about 16 times the float.

Two headlines came out that day. At 9:15 a.m. a press release said the company got a notice of allowance for a new U.S. patent covering exosome-based immunotherapy for type 1 diabetes. At 3:13 p.m. Benzinga ran "Creative Medical Technology Stock Surges After Key Patent Win." The last bar of the day, after the close, was $1.28.

Pre-market: a $1.15 bid and a jump at 7:03

The first trade on the 7th was at $1.36, already above the $1.16 close. It dropped to $1.19 by 4:02 a.m., then spent hours between about $1.22 and $1.34.

At 7:01 a.m., a bid appeared at exactly $1.15. By 7:06 there were 168,814 shares on that bid, 2.6% of the float. The stock stayed well above it.

At 7:03 a.m. the stock jumped to $1.45 on 137,694 shares in one minute, then settled back in the $1.30s. The pre-market high was $1.50 at 9:28 a.m. 2.47 million shares traded before the bell.

The open and the run

It opened at $1.47, up 27% from the previous close. At 9:30:01 one print of 86,151 shares went through at $1.43. The 9:30 minute cleared the pre-market high of $1.50 and closed at $1.51.

At 9:31:51 an ask wall showed up at $2.00.

The run was quick. The 9:31 minute reached $1.64 and the 9:32 minute $1.70. In the 9:33 minute it hit $1.89, up 29% from the open, on 1.03 million shares, the biggest minute of the day. After a dip to $1.64 in the 9:34 minute, it reached $1.81 in the 9:35 minute.

The top at $1.93

At 9:36:23 a single buy order of 129,108 shares went through nine price levels, from $1.85 to $1.93. $1.93 was the high so far, up 66% from the $1.16 close and 7 cents under the $2.00 wall.

Counting pre-market, more shares had traded by the end of the 9:37 minute than exist in the whole float (6.56 million). At 9:38:17 a sell order of 86,921 shares went from $1.77 to $1.73, and the 9:39 minute dipped to $1.61.

A lower high at $1.81, then the slide

It came back once more. At 9:41 a.m. it pushed to $1.81, a lower high under the $1.93 top. At 9:41:54 an ask wall appeared at $1.85.

A 68,220-share sell order went through at 9:45:07, and the 9:45 minute dropped to $1.58. At 9:48:17 another sell order of 66,775 shares went from $1.56 to $1.53. By 9:50 it hit $1.42. The $2.00 wall peaked at 160,504 shares (2.5% of the float) at 9:50:51, after the stock had fallen away from it.

Bids at $1.47 and $1.55

At 9:58:17 a bid wall showed up at $1.47. It peaked at 93,322 shares three seconds later and was pulled at 9:59:48. At 10:00:05 a sell order of 76,307 shares went from $1.54 to $1.51.

The stock then worked up from about $1.49. At 10:14:23 a bigger bid appeared at $1.55.

The bid peaked at 190,185 shares at 10:15:43, 2.9% of the float. The stock got to $1.67 by 10:18. At 10:18:44 the bid was pulled. At 10:19:08 a sell order of 81,575 shares went from $1.66 to $1.62. The 10:19 candle dipped to $1.58 on 190,856 shares.

At 10:29 a buy order of 81,328 shares went from $1.69 to $1.73. That was the last push above $1.70. The $1.85 ask wall from 9:41 peaked at 88,322 shares at 10:31, and by 10:32 the stock was at $1.53.

The rest of the day

At 11:19 a sell order of 79,225 shares went from $1.47 to $1.41 across seven levels. At 11:29 another went from $1.41 to $1.37. At 11:31 it bounced to $1.49.

At 11:53:03 the $1.15 bid was pulled. The stock was trading around $1.43 by then. Eight minutes later it fell to $1.35 in the 12:01 minute. At 12:46:30 a sell order of 87,739 shares went from $1.40 to $1.33 across eight levels. The low after the open was $1.29 at 1:05 p.m.

The afternoon was quiet. It reached $1.46 at 3:16 p.m., dipped to $1.36 around 3:42, and the last regular-session minute closed at $1.44. Through the close, 19.13 million shares traded, pre-market included: the float changed hands about 3 times, at about 3 times its normal volume. There were no halts.

A wall at $1.06 first showed at 9:10 a.m. It peaked at 294,088 shares (4.5% of the float) at 3:39 p.m., the biggest wall listed that day.

After hours

After the close the stock drifted from $1.40 at 4:10 p.m. to $1.31 at 7:59 p.m. 370,873 shares traded after hours. At 5:23 p.m. the company filed a 10-Q (the quarterly report). The stock was trading around $1.37 then.

What to take from it

• After the top, the next push stopped lower. $1.93 at 9:36 a.m., then $1.81 at 9:41 a.m. The run stopped 7 cents under a visible $2.00 ask wall.
• A big bid on the screen can disappear. The $1.47 bid lasted about a minute and a half. The $1.55 bid lasted about four minutes. The $1.15 bid stayed until 11:53 a.m., far below the price.
• Most of the move was gone by the close. The last regular minute closed at $1.44, about a quarter below the $1.93 high.

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