Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 12, 2026
PARA on August 12, 2026: why it ran
On August 12, 2026, PARA opened up 0.6% from the previous close of 1.70 and reached 1.75 at 2:43 p.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 1.70
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 1.71
- Gap at the open
- up 0.6%
- Pre-market high
- 1.69 at 5:12 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.75 at 2:43 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.62
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.22 at 6:50 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 1.74
- Volume
- 151,856
- Relative volume
- 14.6x
- Float
- 2.49 million shares, from filings as of August 12, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.31 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for PARA published between the previous session's close and the first minute PARA traded 20% above it, at 6:50 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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Parabolic to Host Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results Conference Call on Friday, August 14, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time
News via Stock News API
How it traded
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:12 a.m. | Pre-market high, 1.69 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 1.71, up 0.6% from the previous close |
| 2:43 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 1.75 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 1.74, 0.6% below the high |
| 5:15 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Parabolic to Host Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results Conference Call on Friday, August 14, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time |
| 6:50 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 1.70 |
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 1 hour 35 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 5:15 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 10,432 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (7%), 11,794 in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 129,630 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (85%).
- Other days PARA met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 24, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for PARA 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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