Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026
UCL on August 17, 2026: why it ran
On August 17, 2026, UCL opened up 30.9% from the previous close of 0.7400 and reached 1.28 at 8:09 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 0.7400
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 0.9690
- Gap at the open
- up 30.9%
- Pre-market high
- 1.28 at 8:09 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.28 at 8:09 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.6333
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 0.6920 at 4:00 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 0.6770
- Volume
- 40.35 million
- Relative volume
- 3447.5x
- Float
- 20.66 million shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 25.59 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for UCL published between the previous session's close and the first minute UCL traded 20% above it, at 7:33 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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UCLOUDLINK GROUP INC. Announces US$2,000,000 Share Repurchase Program
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Gap and fade. It gapped up 30.9% to 0.9690 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at 0.6770.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:31 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): UCLOUDLINK GROUP INC. Announces US$2,000,000 Share Repurchase Program |
| 7:33 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 0.7400 |
| 8:09 a.m. | Pre-market high, 1.28 |
| 8:09 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 1.28 |
| 8:16 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 20.66 million shares |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 0.9690, up 30.9% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 0.6770, 47.1% 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
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 2 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 7:31 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 31.17 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (77%), 3.93 million in the first 30 minutes (10%), and 5.25 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (13%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 20.66 million shares: past it once at 8:16 a.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day UCL met the small-cap rule.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for UCL 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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