Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026
BRNX on August 17, 2026: why it ran
On August 17, 2026, BRNX opened up 1.4% from the previous close of 3.56 and reached 5.37 at 8:24 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.
- Previous close
- 3.56
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 3.61
- Gap at the open
- up 1.4%
- Pre-market high
- 5.37 at 8:24 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.37 at 8:24 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.66
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.25 at 7:48 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 2.94
- Volume
- 2.06 million
- Relative volume
- 101.3x
- Float
- 436,783 shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 436,783
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for BRNX published between the previous session's close and the first minute BRNX traded 20% above it, at 4:24 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:24 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 3.56 |
| 4:45 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 436,783 shares |
| 8:24 a.m. | Pre-market high, 5.37 |
| 8:24 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 5.37 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 3.61, up 1.4% from the previous close |
| 2:02 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 2:07 p.m. |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 2.94, 45.3% 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: 1.82 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (88%), 59,510 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 185,829 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (9%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 436,783 shares: past it once at 4:45 a.m., twice at 8:22 a.m., three times at 8:25 a.m.
- The halt at 2:02 p.m.: up 13.0% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.14, up 3.3% from the last trade before it, then up 1.6% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days BRNX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on August 27, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:02 p.m. | 2:07 p.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.
Trade this day
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