Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 11, 2026
BOXL on August 11, 2026: why it ran
On August 11, 2026, BOXL opened up 1.0% from the previous close of 2.97 and reached 3.05 at 11:25 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 2.97
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 3.00
- Gap at the open
- up 1.0%
- Pre-market high
- 2.92 at 7:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.05 at 11:25 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.63
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.77 at 5:31 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 2.88
- Volume
- 2.96 million
- Relative volume
- 271.5x
- Float
- 663,210 shares, from filings as of August 11, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 667,057
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Replay BOXL's day
It starts at 1:40 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 1:43 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: after hours
- Thin trading
- News: private placement
- 8-K filing
- Low float
Pre-market: almost nothing
The previous close was $2.97. The first trades were at 4:19 a.m., at $2.83. At 4:22 a.m. the stock hit $2.63, the low so far.
The pre-market high was $2.92 at 7:00 a.m. Only 160 shares traded before the bell. That is a very thin tape.
The open and the quiet session
It opened at $3.00, up 1% from the previous close. The 9:30 minute traded 1,406 shares, which was close to half of the whole regular session's volume of 3,263.
After that, many minutes had no trades at all. Most trades were a few dozen shares or fewer. It drifted around $3.00.
The high at $3.05
At 11:25 a.m. it printed $3.05, the regular-session high so far. That was 40 shares in that minute.
It sat near $3.04 until 12:27, then slipped to $3.00.
The afternoon
Early in the afternoon it traded between about $2.94 and $3.00.
Stop It's 1:41. BOXL is at $2.97, the open of this minute, right at the previous close of $2.97. The stock opened at $3.00 this morning, topped at $3.05 at 11:25 and slipped back to $3.00 around 12:28. At 1:21 it dipped to $2.94 on 400 shares, then bounced to $2.99 at 1:24. Since then trades have been very rare: one share at 1:27, and now a print at $2.97. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 1:41 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 1:38 p.m. ET.
In the last minutes it slid: $2.96 at 3:50 p.m., $2.94 at 3:54, and a low after the open of $2.88 at 3:59 p.m.
The 4:00 p.m. bar traded at $2.93. The regular session's total was 3,263 shares, against a float of 663,210.
After hours: the filing and the spike
At 4:25 p.m., after the close, the company filed an 8-K (a current report). The stock traded at $2.87 at 4:26 p.m. on 90 shares.
Then nothing for a while. At 5:12 p.m. it traded 1,000 shares around $2.95. In the 5:13 minute it ran from $3.04 to $3.69. In the 5:14 minute it hit $4.24, on 54,659 shares.
By 5:25 p.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (663,210). The high was $4.77 at 5:31 p.m., about 61% above the $2.97 previous close.
At 5:40 p.m. Business Wire ran: “Boxlight Corporation Announces Initial Closing of Private Placement”. By then the stock had already dropped from $4.77 to about $4.10. It did not return to $4.77. It traded mostly between $4.00 and $4.50 afterward and was at $4.62 at 7:59 p.m.
After hours volume was 2,957,075 shares, about 4.5 times the float. The regular session had 3,263.
What to take from it
- A quiet regular session can hide the real move. All the action here came after the close, when 2.96 million shares traded against 3,263 in the regular session.
- Thin books make the screen price unreliable. At the $3.05 high, only 232 shares were offered, and a 5,000-share buy would have averaged $3.21.
- The filing came before the headline. The 8-K was at 4:25 p.m. and the news at 5:40 p.m., after the stock had already peaked at $4.77.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for BOXL published between the previous session's close and the first minute BOXL traded 20% above it, at 5:13 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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CURRENT REPORT
How it traded
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, 2.92 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 3.00, up 1.0% from the previous close | |
| 11:25 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 3.05 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 2.88, 5.6% below the high | |
| 4:25 p.m. | SEC filing 8-K: CURRENT REPORT | |
| 5:13 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.97 | |
| 5:25 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 663,210 shares |
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 47 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 4:25 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 160 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,681 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 2.96 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 663,210 shares: past it once at 5:25 p.m., twice at 5:35 p.m., three times at 6:08 p.m.
- Other days BOXL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 14, 2026.
- The next session, August 12, 2026, it was up 170.3% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for BOXL 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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