Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 14, 2026
SPAI on August 14, 2026: why it ran
On August 14, 2026, SPAI opened down 4.0% from the previous close of 4.48 and reached 6.25 at 3:55 p.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 4.48
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 4.30
- Gap at the open
- down 4.0%
- Pre-market high
- 5.74 at 8:05 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 6.25 at 3:55 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.12
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 7.84 at 4:34 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 6.20
- Volume
- 3.42 million
- Relative volume
- 85.0x
- Float
- 15.06 million shares, from filings as of August 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 20.62 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Replay SPAI's day
It starts at 9:59 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:02 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: after hours
- Catalyst: news
- Pre-market spike, faded
- Slow afternoon grind
- After-hours spike
Pre-market: the headline spike
At 8:03 a.m. GlobeNewsWire ran: “Safe Pro Reports Record 1,336% Revenue Growth in Q2 2026 Driven by Multiple Government Contracts for AI-Powered Threat Detection and Mapping”. The first trades of the day printed that same minute, at $4.72, already above the $4.48 previous close.
From $4.84 at 8:04 it ran to the pre-market high, $5.74 at 8:05 a.m. That minute alone traded 183,288 shares. Then it came apart. By 8:08 it was at $4.39, down 24% from the high and below the previous close.
It kept sliding. At 8:14 it touched $4.33. At 8:28 it hit $4.12, the low so far. At 8:44 the company filed an 8-K (a current report). In the 8:44 minute the stock traded between $4.36 and $4.40. After the first few minutes, most of the pre-market was quiet. 801,276 shares traded before the bell, and the spike minutes made up most of that.
The open: below the close
SPAI opened at $4.30, 4% under the previous close. The low since the open was $4.17 at 9:31. Until 10:00 the stock stayed between about $4.17 and $4.52, with some minutes trading only a few hundred shares.
The 10:00 push
At 10:00 it was $4.49. It climbed from there, and in the 10:16 minute it went from $4.85 to $4.98.
Stop It's 10:17. SPAI is at $4.91. It was $4.49 at 10:00, and last minute it traded as high as $5.07 before closing at $4.98. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 10:17 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 10:14 a.m. ET.
At 10:17:27 a single buy order for 11,208 shares went through ten price levels, from $5.07 to $5.18. The minute's high was $5.25, 26% above the $4.17 low after the open, and it closed at $5.20.
It didn't hold. The next minute it dropped to $4.84 and closed at $4.97. By 10:27 it was down to $4.72.
The afternoon
After that, the stock stepped up instead of spiking. It was above $5.20 by 11:00 and at $5.57 by 11:56. At 12:00 it reached $5.71. It spent most of the early afternoon around $5.50 to $5.70, then pushed to $5.83 at 2:04 p.m.
At 3:39 p.m. another large buy order went through five price levels, 13,132 shares from $5.98 to $6.04. The minute's high was $6.07.
Stop It's 3:55. SPAI is at $6.16, up from $5.95 half an hour ago, with five minutes left in the regular session. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 3:55 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 3:52 p.m. ET.
It reached $6.25 at 3:55 p.m., the high of the regular session. Its last regular-session minute, 3:59, closed at $6.20, 38% above the previous close.
After hours: $7.84
At 4:01 p.m. the company filed a 10-Q (the quarterly report). At 4:10 p.m. a Schedule 13G/A (a passive holder's update) was filed. Through this the stock stayed between $6.11 and $6.24.
The big move came later. From $6.26 at 4:24 it climbed to $6.54 by 4:31. Then at 4:32 it jumped to $6.98. In the 4:34 minute it hit $7.84, the high of the day, on 102,153 shares in one minute. That was 75% above the previous close.
None of the headlines or filings that day came after 4:10, so nothing in the data shows what drove it. It pulled back to $7.15 at 4:35 and drifted lower for the rest of the evening. It ended around $6.21 at 7:59 p.m.
The regular session traded 861,663 shares. After hours traded 1,753,502, more than double that. For the whole day, 3,416,441 shares traded against a float of 15.06 million, at 85 times normal volume (normal is about 40,000 shares a day).
What to take from it
- A headline spike can disappear in minutes. SPAI ran from $4.72 to $5.74 and was below the previous close by 8:08.
- The slow climb is a different trade from the spike. After the 10:27 dip, SPAI moved up to the close in small steps rather than one burst.
- The highest price of the day came after the regular session ended. The $7.84 high printed at 4:34 p.m., and the after-hours volume was more than double the regular session's.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for SPAI published between the previous session's close and the first minute SPAI traded 20% above it, at 8:04 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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Safe Pro Reports Record 1,336% Revenue Growth in Q2 2026 Driven by Multiple Government Contracts for AI-Powered Threat Detection and Mapping
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Intraday run. It opened down 4.0% at 4.30, then ran from the open to the high of 6.25 in 385 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 8:03 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Safe Pro Reports Record 1,336% Revenue Growth in Q2 2026 Driven by Multiple Government Contracts for AI-Powered Threat Detection and Mapping | |
| 8:04 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 4.48 | |
| 8:05 a.m. | Pre-market high, 5.74 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 4.30, down 4.0% from the previous close | |
| 3:55 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 6.25 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 6.20, 0.8% 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 1 minute after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 8:03 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 801,276 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (23%), 45,995 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 2.57 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (75%).
- Other days SPAI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on October 7, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for SPAI 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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