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EJH on August 17, 2026: why it ran

Published October 9, 2026 · By Hindsight Markets

On August 17, 2026, EJH opened down 1.1% from the previous close of 1.74 and reached 1.89 at 11:37 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.

Previous close

1.74

Open, 9:30 a.m.

1.72

Gap at the open

down 1.1%

Pre-market high

1.80 at 4:16 a.m.

High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.

1.89 at 11:37 a.m.

Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.

1.16

After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

2.30 at 5:16 p.m.

Last trade before 4:00 p.m.

1.50

Volume

359,180

Relative volume

57.7x

Float

3.19 million shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026

Shares outstanding

3.20 million

Halts

1

Why it ran

News and SEC filings for EJH published between the previous session's close and the first minute EJH traded 20% above it, at 4:59 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.

No news found before the move.

How it traded

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: 445 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 4,740 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 353,995 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
• The halt at 3:34 p.m.: up 6.1% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 1.61, up 15.0% from the last trade before it, then down 6.8% over the next 5 minutes.
• Other days EJH met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 1, 2026.
• The next session, August 18, 2026, it was up 43.1% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.

Halts

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.