Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 7, 2026
CGTL on August 7, 2026: why it ran
On August 7, 2026, CGTL opened up 3.0% from the previous close of 3.96 and reached 6.39 at 1:02 p.m. ET. The exchange halted it 3 times.
- Previous close
- 3.96
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 4.08
- Gap at the open
- up 3.0%
- Pre-market high
- 4.08 at 7:14 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 6.39 at 1:02 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.42
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.07 at 4:00 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 4.04
- Volume
- 560,243
- Relative volume
- 37.5x
- Float
- 1.15 million shares, from filings as of August 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.72 million
Replay CGTL's day
It starts at 12:41 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 12:44 p.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: midday
- No news
- Low float
- Ask wall at $7
- Halt run
- Halted three times, faded
The day before and pre-market
On August 6, CGTL traded between $3.92 and $4.10 on only 3,186 shares. The official close was $3.96.
Pre-market was nearly empty. The first trade was 30 shares at $3.95 at 4:18 a.m. The high was $4.08 at 7:14 a.m. Just 54 shares traded before the bell. No news came out today.
A slow morning
It opened at $4.08, up 3% from the close. Many minutes had no trades at all. By 10:06 it was back at $3.96.
Things picked up at 10:33. From $4.00 it climbed to $4.64 at 10:48. At 11:04 it hit $5.03, and then dropped to $4.30 in the 11:05 minute. By 11:16 it was $4.31. It spent the next hour between about $4.11 and $4.75.
The run to the halt
The big move began at midday. At 12:13 p.m. it was near $4.32. By 12:49 it was at $4.94, still under $5.
Then volume exploded. The 12:50 minute broke $5, high $5.48. By 12:53 it had traded 31,162 shares in one minute and closed at $5.98. The 12:56 minute reached $6.38 on 66,612 shares. That is more than the whole morning combined.
At 12:57:18 it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $6.38.
The $7 wall and the reopen
At 1:01:46 p.m., during the halt, an ask wall appeared at $7.00.
Stop It's 1:02. CGTL is about to reopen after a five-minute halt that began with a last trade at $6.38. Shares are offered at $7.00 above. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 1:02 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 12:59 p.m. ET.
It reopened at 1:02:18 p.m. at $6.25. A 20,681-share print crossed at $6.25 right at the reopen. The high so far, $6.39, came in that same minute.
It did not hold. The 1:02 minute low was $5.63 and it closed there. At 1:02:34 it was halted again, just 16 seconds after the reopen.
The second reopen
Stop It's 1:22. CGTL is about to reopen after a 20-minute halt that stopped at $5.63. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 1:22 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 1:19 p.m. ET.
It reopened at 1:22:35 p.m. at $4.31, 23% below where it stopped. It peaked at 65,162 shares at 1:22:38, 5.7% of the float.
At 1:23:41 it was halted a third time, last trade $3.99. It reopened at 1:28:41 at $3.79, 5% lower, on a 12,747-share print. It fell to $3.69 in that minute, down 42% from $6.39.
The rest of the day
At 1:30 p.m. it pushed to $4.27, a lower high under $6.39. Then it faded to a low of the day of $3.42 at 1:41 p.m.
After that it chopped between about $3.50 and $4.10. It closed at $4.04, 37% below the high, and then slipped to about $3.80 after hours.
By the 4 p.m. close, 554,131 shares had traded, about 37 times its normal volume. Normal is tiny: a few thousand shares on the day before. The float is 1.15 million shares, so about half of it changed hands.
What to take from it
- A halt can reopen far below where it stopped. The 1:02:34 halt stopped at $5.63 and reopened at $4.31, 23% lower.
- Buying a reopen costs more than the screen says. Here, 5,000 shares ran $1,159 to $1,832 over the screen after the three reopens.
- After the top, the next push stopped lower. $6.39 at 1:02 p.m., then $4.27 at 1:30 p.m. It closed at $4.04, 37% below the high.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for CGTL published between the previous session's close and the first minute CGTL traded 20% above it, at 11:01 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 3.0% at 4.08, then ran from the open to the high of 6.39 in 212 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:14 a.m. | Pre-market high, 4.08 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 4.08, up 3.0% from the previous close | |
| 11:01 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 3.96 | |
| 12:57 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 1:02 p.m. | |
| 1:02 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 6.39 | |
| 1:02 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 1:22 p.m. | |
| 1:23 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 1:28 p.m. | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 4.04, 36.8% 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: 54 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 211 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 559,978 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- The halt at 12:57 p.m.: up 19.3% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 6.25, down 2.0% from the last trade before it.
- The halt at 1:02 p.m.: down 11.8% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 4.31, down 23.4% from the last trade before it, then down 7.4% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 1:23 p.m.: down 29.1% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.79, down 5.0% from the last trade before it, then up 5.5% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days CGTL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 14, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:57 p.m. | 1:02 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:02 p.m. | 1:22 p.m. | 20 min 1 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:23 p.m. | 1:28 p.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.
Trade this day
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