Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026
IPST on August 17, 2026: why it ran
On August 17, 2026, IPST opened up 260.9% from the previous close of 2.20 and reached 9.66 at 10:59 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 2.20
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 7.94
- Gap at the open
- up 260.9%
- Pre-market high
- 8.71 at 8:55 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 9.66 at 10:59 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.53
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 8.87 at 4:56 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 7.37
- Volume
- 50.71 million
- Relative volume
- 1433.5x
- Float
- 696,891 shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 721,578
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for IPST published between the previous session's close and the first minute IPST traded 20% above it, at 4:00 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 260.9% to 7.94 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 9.66 in 89 minutes, then gave back 133% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 7.37.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.20 |
| 4:06 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 696,891 shares |
| 8:55 a.m. | Pre-market high, 8.71 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 7.94, up 260.9% from the previous close |
| 10:59 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 9.66 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 7.37, 23.7% 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: 27.59 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (54%), 4.26 million in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 18.86 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (37%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 696,891 shares: past it once at 4:06 a.m., twice at 4:10 a.m., three times at 4:15 a.m.
- Other days IPST met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on September 25, 2026.
- The next session, August 18, 2026, it was up 113.9% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for IPST 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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