Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026
JFU on August 17, 2026: why it ran
On August 17, 2026, JFU opened down 9.9% from the previous close of 2.23 and reached 3.95 at 6:01 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 2.23
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 2.01
- Gap at the open
- down 9.9%
- Pre-market high
- 3.95 at 6:01 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.95 at 6:01 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.72
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.80 at 7:36 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 2.33
- Volume
- 3.92 million
- Relative volume
- 4058.9x
- Float
- 8.37 million shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 11.77 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for JFU published between the previous session's close and the first minute JFU traded 20% above it, at 5:56 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 down 9.9% at 2.01, then ran from the open to the high of 2.56 in 381 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:56 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.23 |
| 6:01 a.m. | Pre-market high, 3.95 |
| 6:01 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 3.95 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 2.01, down 9.9% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 2.33, 41.0% 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: 3.15 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (80%), 160,701 in the first 30 minutes (4%), and 616,303 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (16%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day JFU met the small-cap rule.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for JFU 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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