Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 18, 2026
CAST on August 18, 2026: why it ran
On August 18, 2026, CAST opened up 0.0% from the previous close of 0.8598 and reached 2.30 at 3:25 p.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 0.8598
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 0.8598
- Gap at the open
- up 0.0%
- Pre-market high
- 0.9615 at 5:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.30 at 3:25 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.8598
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.03 at 7:15 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 2.09
- Volume
- 51.61 million
- Relative volume
- 144.2x
- Float
- 22.34 million shares, from filings as of August 18, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 47.58 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for CAST published between the previous session's close and the first minute CAST traded 20% above it, at 11:06 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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How it traded
Intraday run. It opened up 0.0% at 0.8598, then ran from the open to the high of 2.30 in 355 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:00 a.m. | News (Business Wire): FreeCast to Relaunch the Investor News Channel as a Next-Generation Global Business and Financial FAST Network |
| 5:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, 0.9615 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 0.8598, up 0.0% from the previous close |
| 11:06 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 0.8598 |
| 1:08 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 22.34 million shares |
| 3:25 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 2.30 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 2.09, 9.1% 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 6 hours 6 minutes after the latest news item before it (Business Wire, 5:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 65,311 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 71,164 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 51.48 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 22.34 million shares: past it once at 1:08 p.m., twice at 5:10 p.m.
- Other days CAST met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 19, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for CAST 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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