Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026
CDTG on August 17, 2026: why it ran
On August 17, 2026, CDTG opened up 3.8% from the previous close of 2.09 and reached 3.30 at 10:04 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.
- Previous close
- 2.09
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 2.17
- Gap at the open
- up 3.8%
- Pre-market high
- 2.13 at 4:01 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.30 at 10:04 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.81
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.08 at 7:41 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 2.80
- Volume
- 2.37 million
- Relative volume
- 8.0x
- Float
- 2.84 million shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.02 million
Replay CDTG's day
It starts at 9:33 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:36 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
- Round-number break
- Halted once
- Lower high
The day before
On August 14, CDTG opened at $1.53 and reached $2.50. It gave some of that back and closed at $2.09.
Pre-market and the open
The first trades on the 17th were at $1.89, below the $2.09 close. Pre-market was thin. The high was $2.13 at 4:01 a.m., and 17,604 shares traded before the bell. That is about 0.6% of the float (2.84 million).
It opened at $2.17, up 4% from the previous close. It slipped to $2.06 at 9:35. Then it turned up. At 9:38 the candle ran to $2.31. By 9:42 it had reached $2.64, up 22% from the open. That minute traded 44,633 shares, including a single 11,100-share print at $2.49.
At 9:45 a buy order of 10,340 shares swept up through five price levels, from $2.46 to $2.50. The stock kept grinding higher toward $3.00.
The wall at $3.00
From 9:40 a.m. on, there was a large offer at exactly $3.00, well above the price at the time. The stock had not yet traded through $3.00 that day.
Stop It's 9:49. CDTG is at $2.74, up from a $2.17 open. A large offer has been sitting at $3.00 since 9:40. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 9:49 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 9:46 a.m. ET.
Here's what happened. The wall peaked at 21,765 shares at 9:50:00, about 0.8% of the float. At 9:50:03 a 17,802-share print went through at $2.99. In under a second, 16,725 shares traded at exactly $3.00 and the wall was gone. It wasn't pulled. Buyers ate it.
The halt
The 9:50 candle ran from $2.87 to $3.18 on 78,609 shares. At 9:50:22 it was halted (a volatility pause), with the last trade at $3.18.
Right after the ask wall broke, a different wall appeared. A bid for 51,263 shares at $3.00 built up, about 1.8% of the float, peaking at 9:54:05.
It reopened at 9:55:22 at $3.19, on a 22,170-share print.
The bid at $3.00 did not hold. 4,938 shares traded at exactly $3.00 over about 13 seconds, and by 9:55:35 the bid was gone. The 9:55 candle ran down to $2.53 and closed at $2.71 on 170,270 shares. So the reopen at $3.19 was the high of that minute.
The top at $3.30
It bounced right away. From $2.69 at 9:57 it ran to $3.25 at 9:59, up 21%. It then pulled back to $2.74 at 10:02.
At 10:04 it went again. From $2.79 at 10:03 it spiked to $3.30, the high of the day, in the 10:04 minute. The next candle also touched $3.30, then dropped. At 10:06 it was back at $2.65 within two minutes of the top.
It never got back above $3.30. At 10:15 it fell to $2.51 and spent the late morning mostly between about $2.50 and $2.90.
The rest of the day
It tried again at midday. At 11:56 it jumped to $3.05. An ask wall of up to 33,109 shares sat at $2.97 from 12:00 to 12:03, and at 12:06 it reached $3.07. Then at 12:59 it pushed to $3.17, a lower high under the $3.30 top.
From there it faded. It dipped to $2.70 at 1:03 p.m., then traded mostly between $2.70 and $3.08, with a push to $3.08 at 2:29 p.m., and closed at $2.80.
After hours it climbed back to $3.08 on thin volume. By the close, 2.29 million shares had traded: volume equal to about 80% of the float, at about 8 times its normal volume.
What to take from it
- Here a big ask wall at $3.00 was not a ceiling. It gave way in under a second.
- The screen price is not your price. Right after the wall broke, a 5,000-share buy cost $841 more than the screen showed. At the halt reopen the book was deep and it cost nothing extra. The same order can cost very different amounts.
- After the top, the next push stopped lower. $3.30 at 10:04 a.m., then $3.17 at 12:59 p.m.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for CDTG published between the previous session's close and the first minute CDTG traded 20% above it, at 9:42 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Intraday run. It opened up 3.8% at 2.17, then ran from the open to the high of 3.30 in 34 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:01 a.m. | Pre-market high, 2.13 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 2.17, up 3.8% from the previous close | |
| 9:42 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.09 | |
| 9:50 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:55 a.m. | |
| 10:04 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 3.30 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 2.80, 15.2% 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: 17,604 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 682,389 in the first 30 minutes (29%), and 1.67 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (70%).
- The halt at 9:50 a.m.: up 25.7% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.19, up 0.3% from the last trade before it, then down 2.5% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days CDTG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on September 4, 2026.
- The next session, August 18, 2026, it was up 17.5% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:50 a.m. | 9:55 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.
Trade this day
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