Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 10, 2026
STKH on August 10, 2026: why it ran
On August 10, 2026, STKH opened up 105.3% from the previous close of 1.88 and reached 7.10 at 10:18 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it 3 times.
- Previous close
- 1.88
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 3.86
- Gap at the open
- up 105.3%
- Pre-market high
- 6.11 at 5:17 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 7.10 at 10:18 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.97
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.78 at 4:42 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 4.28
- Volume
- 37.59 million
- Relative volume
- 22.5x
- Float
- not available
- Shares outstanding
- not available
Replay STKH's day
It starts at 9:28 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:31 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
- Main move: the morning
- No news in our data
- Moving ask wall
- Halt run
- Halted three times
- Gap, run and fade
Pre-market: up to $6.11
STKH closed August 7 at $1.88. We have no news headline or filing for August 10, so the chart is all there is to go on.
The first trades on the 10th were at $2.03, already above that close. It sat near $2 until 4:34 a.m. Then things sped up.
From $2.14 at 4:44 a.m. it ran to $4.55 at 4:46 a.m., up 113%. It reached $3.00 at 4:45 and $4.00 in the same minute. Then it fell to $2.35 at 4:47 a.m., down 48% from $4.55.
It did this again. It ran to $3.86 at 4:49, fell to $2.80 at 4:51, then ran to $4.70 at 4:54, up 68%. It reached $5.47 at 4:58 and fell to $3.58 at 5:01, down 35%.
From $4.41 at 5:08 a.m. it ran to the pre-market high, $6.11 at 5:17 a.m. After that it drifted. It got to $5.69 at 5:33, then fell to $4.36 at 5:45 a.m., down 23%. 13.65 million shares traded before the bell.
The wall that kept moving down
From 7:13 a.m. a big block of shares was offered for sale above the price in the combined book. It didn't stay at one price. At 7:13 it was at $5.40 (peak 156,596 shares at 7:19). That was pulled at 7:22, and the same kind of size showed up at $5.35 (peak 151,556 shares). That was pulled at 7:39.
Then it sat at $5.20, peaking at 163,435 shares at 7:54 a.m. At 8:03:44 it was pulled. At 8:04 a wall appeared at $5.01, peaked at 150,328 shares at 8:10, and was pulled at 8:17. It came back at $4.90 and grew to 157,212 shares at 9:08. It was pulled at 9:29:03, a minute before the open.
Through all five, the stock traded below the wall. It never traded up into any of them before they left.
The open and the first halt
It opened at $3.86, up 105% from the previous close. It slipped right away to $3.32 at 9:31 a.m., then turned up. From $3.48 at 9:32 it ran toward $4.93 by 9:36.
At 9:37 a.m. it was halted (a volatility pause), with the last trade at $4.93. It reopened at 9:42 a.m. at $4.94, and the first print was 116,592 shares at that price. From there it spiked to $5.56 at 9:42 a.m., up 60% from $3.48.
Over the next three minutes it pulled back and chopped between $4.50 and $5.42.
Stop It's 9:46. STKH is at $4.89. It reopened from a halt at 9:42 and has traded between $4.50 and $5.03 since 9:44. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 9:46 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 9:43 a.m. ET.
Here's what happened. At 9:46:56 one buy order swept 38,810 shares from $5.56 to $5.84 across 29 price levels. The 9:46 candle reached $6.04, and the next one reached $6.29.
Three halts in 21 minutes
A bid wall showed up at $6.29 at 9:47:35 and peaked at 126,606 shares at 9:47:44. At 9:47:48 it was halted again, with the last trade at $6.29.
It reopened at 9:52 a.m. at $6.05, 24 cents below where it stopped. The bid wall was pulled at 9:52:49. 1,235 shares traded at $6.29 as it came off. The first print was 77,996 shares at $6.05. It reached $6.33 at 9:52 a.m., up 41% from $4.50 at 9:45.
At 9:53 a.m. it was halted a third time (a volatility pause), with the last trade at $4.84. That is $1.49 under the $6.33 top, set a minute earlier. It reopened at 9:58 a.m. at $4.65, below where it stopped, on a 55,015-share print. The low of that minute was $4.64, down 27% from $6.33.
It bounced to $5.72 at 9:59. By 10:01 it was back at $4.64, and through 10:14 it chopped between $4.64 and $6.15.
Back above $6
From $5.00 at 10:09 a.m. it chopped higher, then started to move. It reached $6.14 by the end of the 10:15 minute.
Stop It's 10:16. STKH is at $6.15, up from $5.00 at 10:09. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 10:16 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 10:13 a.m. ET.
Here's what happened. At 10:16:03 one buy order swept 87,046 shares from $6.20 to $6.78 across 58 price levels. It kept going: $7.10, the high of the day, at 10:18 a.m. By 10:19 it had dipped to $6.01.
The rest of the day
It came back once more. At 10:20 a.m. it pushed to $6.75, a lower high under the $7.10 top.
From there it faded: $5.36 at 10:24 a.m., $3.84 at 11:12 a.m. and $3.69 at 12:58 p.m., before ending the regular session at $4.28.
Through the close, 36.99 million shares traded (13.65 million pre-market and 23.35 million in the regular session), at 22 times its normal volume.
After hours it rose to $4.78 at 4:42 p.m. Then it fell to $3.19 by 7:30 p.m., down 33%.
What to take from it
- A wall can be pulled instead of traded. Five ask walls of about 150,000 shares each appeared and left between 7:13 and 9:29, and the stock never traded into them.
- A halt can reopen lower than it stopped, and the book is thin when it does. The 9:53 halt stopped at $4.84 and reopened at $4.65. A 5,000-share buy at the 9:52 reopen cost $664 more than the screen showed.
- After the top, the next push stopped lower. $7.10 at 10:18, then $6.75 at 10:20. The stock ended the regular session at $4.28.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for STKH published between the previous session's close and the first minute STKH traded 20% above it, at 4:44 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 105.3% to 3.86 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 7.10 in 48 minutes through 3 halts, then gave back 87% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 4.28.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:44 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 1.88 | |
| 5:17 a.m. | Pre-market high, 6.11 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 3.86, up 105.3% from the previous close | |
| 9:37 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:42 a.m. | |
| 9:47 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:52 a.m. | |
| 9:53 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:58 a.m. | |
| 10:18 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 7.10 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 4.28, 39.7% 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: 13.65 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (36%), 5.43 million in the first 30 minutes (14%), and 18.52 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (49%).
- The halt at 9:37 a.m.: up 23.9% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 4.94, up 0.2% from the last trade before it, then up 18.2% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 9:47 a.m.: up 19.8% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 6.05, down 3.8% from the last trade before it, then down 20.0% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 9:53 a.m.: down 23.1% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 4.65, down 3.9% from the last trade before it, then up 6.0% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days STKH met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 1, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:37 a.m. | 9:42 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:47 a.m. | 9:52 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:53 a.m. | 9:58 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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