Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026
HAO on August 17, 2026: why it ran
On August 17, 2026, HAO opened up 0.3% from the previous close of 3.98 and reached 5.47 at 10:50 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.
- Previous close
- 3.98
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 3.99
- Gap at the open
- up 0.3%
- Pre-market high
- 4.41 at 7:03 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.47 at 10:50 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.48
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 5.75 at 5:52 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 4.08
- Volume
- 1.09 million
- Relative volume
- 6.3x
- Float
- 350,148 shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 366,126
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for HAO published between the previous session's close and the first minute HAO traded 20% above it, at 10:47 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 0.3% at 3.99, then ran from the open to the high of 5.47 in 80 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:03 a.m. | Pre-market high, 4.41 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 3.99, up 0.3% from the previous close |
| 10:47 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 3.98 |
| 10:50 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 5.47 |
| 10:54 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 350,148 shares |
| 10:59 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 11:09 a.m. |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 4.08, 25.4% 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: 68,725 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (6%), 35,843 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 987,661 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (90%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 350,148 shares: past it once at 10:54 a.m., twice at 5:52 p.m., three times at 6:21 p.m.
- The halt at 10:59 a.m.: down 12.3% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.91, down 11.3% from the last trade before it, then down 0.3% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days HAO met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 23, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:59 a.m. | 11:09 a.m. | 10 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.
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