Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 10, 2026
ARTW on August 10, 2026: why it ran
On August 10, 2026, ARTW opened up 0.5% from the previous close of 2.16 and reached 4.03 at 2:39 p.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 2.16
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 2.17
- Gap at the open
- up 0.5%
- Pre-market high
- not available
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.03 at 2:39 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.15
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.87 at 4:00 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 2.87
- Volume
- 14.03 million
- Relative volume
- 924.4x
- Float
- 2.58 million shares, from filings as of August 10, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 5.20 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Replay ARTW's day
It starts at 2:00 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 2:03 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: the afternoon
- Catalyst: news
- Float traded 5x
- Ask wall pulled
- No halts
- Faded into the close
A quiet day until 2:00 p.m.
The previous close was $2.16. Nothing traded pre-market. ARTW opened at $2.17 and then barely moved. Most minutes had no trades at all, and the ones that did were small: 100 shares here, 22 shares there.
The regular-session low so far was $2.15 at 1:56 p.m. The stock had traded about 7,300 shares in total before 2:00 p.m. Its float is 2.58 million shares.
2:00 p.m.: the headline
At 2:00 p.m. Accesswire ran: “Art's Way Announces Significant Increase in Backlog Following Award of Major Modular Building Projects.” The 2:00 minute opened at about $2.19, hit $2.58, and traded 36,519 shares, more than the whole morning put together.
It dipped to $2.32 at 2:02, then climbed again. At 2:07 it reached $2.86. The volume kept growing: 96,291 shares at 2:08, then 233,540 at 2:10.
At 2:10 p.m. it traded through $3.00, and the high of that minute was $3.04. By 2:12 it was at $3.22. A 10,205-share single trade printed at $3.00 at 2:13:04.
By 2:19 p.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (2.58 million). There were no halts on the day.
$3.81, then a wall at $4.19
Buying got more aggressive. At 2:18:38 one buy order of 24,823 shares swept seven price levels, from $3.43 to $3.49. At 2:20 the stock reached $3.81.
Then it pulled back to $3.24 at 2:22 and ran again. At 2:23:28 an ask wall appeared at $4.19. It grew to 25,340 shares at 2:24:36, about 1% of the float, and was pulled at 2:24:41. A bid wall of 23,775 shares sat at $3.45 from 2:24:17.
The 2:24 candle reached $3.88 and the 2:25 candle reached $3.91, both below $4.19.
Stop It's 2:27. ARTW is at $3.77, under the $3.91 high of 2:25. The $4.19 ask wall was pulled at 2:24:41. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 2:27 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 2:24 p.m. ET.
The $3.45 bid wall was pulled at 2:27:01. At 2:27:22 a sell order of 51,309 shares went through 26 price levels, from $3.52 down to $3.27. The 2:27 minute low was $3.27. Buyers came back, and at 2:29:55 and 2:29:56 two buy orders (43,428 and 22,159 shares) pushed it to $3.86, the 2:29 high.
From $3.25 back toward $3.90
After that the stock slid to $3.25 at 2:32 and again at 2:34. At 2:35 it started up again from $3.31. At 2:38 it opened at $3.56 and reached $3.93.
Stop It's 2:39. ARTW is at $3.87 after a strong 2:38 minute. It's up from $3.31 four minutes ago. Would you chase it here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 2:39 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 2:36 p.m. ET.
At 2:39:07 one buy order of 47,562 shares swept 16 price levels, from $3.88 to $4.03. $4.03 was the high of the day. The minute closed at $3.78.
Within four minutes it was back at $3.44 (the 2:43 low).
The rest of the day
After the top it bounced to $3.85 at 2:41, then $3.73 at 2:45, each high lower than the one before. Then it slid. Sell orders swept 14 levels at 2:49:33 and 21 levels at 2:50:15. The 2:50 low was $3.07, and by 3:00 p.m. the low was $2.85.
At 3:37 p.m. the company filed an 8-K (a current report). The stock traded between $2.87 and $2.94 that minute.
The last regular-session bar (3:59) closed at $2.87, 29% under the $4.03 high. After hours it traded another 351,675 shares, between about $2.58 and $2.87.
By the close, 13.68 million shares had traded: the float changed hands about 5 times, at 924 times its normal volume. Normal volume is tiny, about 15,000 shares a day.
What to take from it
- Volume arrived the minute the headline did. ARTW traded about 7,300 shares before 2:00 p.m. Then it traded about 13.67 million shares in the rest of the regular session.
- The pushes after the top stopped lower. $4.03 at 2:39 p.m., then $3.85 at 2:41 and $3.73 at 2:45.
- Chasing the high cost more than the screen showed. The best ask was $3.88 with 394 shares on it, and a 5,000-share order averaged $3.90.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for ARTW published between the previous session's close and the first minute ARTW traded 20% above it, at 2:04 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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Art's Way Announces Significant Increase in Backlog Following Award of Major Modular Building Projects
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Intraday run. It opened up 0.5% at 2.17, then ran from the open to the high of 4.03 in 309 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 2.17, up 0.5% from the previous close | |
| 2:00 p.m. | News (Accesswire): Art's Way Announces Significant Increase in Backlog Following Award of Major Modular Building Projects | |
| 2:04 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.16 | |
| 2:19 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.58 million shares | |
| 2:39 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 4.03 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 2.87, 28.8% 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
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 4 minutes after the latest news item before it (Accesswire, 2:00 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 0 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,010 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 14.03 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.58 million shares: past it once at 2:19 p.m., twice at 2:26 p.m., three times at 2:35 p.m.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for ARTW that day.
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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