Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026
SLE on August 17, 2026: why it ran
On August 17, 2026, SLE opened up 35.2% from the previous close of 2.27 and reached 4.65 at 4:59 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 2.27
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 3.07
- Gap at the open
- up 35.2%
- Pre-market high
- 4.65 at 4:59 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.65 at 4:59 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.27
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.08 at 5:23 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 3.02
- Volume
- 9.59 million
- Relative volume
- 517.4x
- Float
- 1.69 million shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.70 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for SLE published between the previous session's close and the first minute SLE traded 20% above it, at 4:36 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 35.2% to 3.07 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 3.47 in 5 minutes, then gave back 112% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 3.02.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:36 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.27 |
| 4:58 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.69 million shares |
| 4:59 a.m. | Pre-market high, 4.65 |
| 4:59 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 4.65 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 3.07, up 35.2% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 3.02, 35.1% 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: 6.78 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (71%), 1.28 million in the first 30 minutes (13%), and 1.53 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (16%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.69 million shares: past it once at 4:58 a.m., twice at 5:13 a.m., three times at 5:39 a.m.
- Other days SLE met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 18, 2026.
- The next session, August 18, 2026, it was up 73.8% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for SLE 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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