Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 18, 2026
CDTG on August 18, 2026: why it ran
On August 18, 2026, CDTG opened up 5.0% from the previous close of 2.80 and reached 8.48 at 2:57 p.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.
- Previous close
- 2.80
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 2.94
- Gap at the open
- up 5.0%
- Pre-market high
- 3.71 at 7:40 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 8.48 at 2:57 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.46
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.43 at 5:03 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 3.29
- Volume
- 15.28 million
- Relative volume
- 41.1x
- Float
- 2.84 million shares, from filings as of August 18, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.02 million
Replay CDTG's day
It starts at 1:57 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 2:00 p.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The day, step by step
- Small cap
- Momentum
- Main move: the afternoon
- Intraday run
- Ask wall break
- Halted once
- Faded into the close
- Float traded 5x
The day before
On August 17, CDTG ran from $1.82 to $3.30. It gave some of it back and closed at $2.80.
Pre-market: up to $3.71
The first trades on the 18th were at $3.08, already above the $2.80 close. It drifted between about $2.82 and $3.19 until about 7 a.m.
From there it ran to the pre-market high, $3.71 at 7:40 a.m. The 7:40 minute alone traded 194,225 shares. 916,394 shares traded before the bell.
The open: a slow morning
It opened at $2.94, up 5% from the previous close. Then not much happened until about 11 a.m. It spent the morning around $3, and the low so far was $2.46 at 11:17 a.m., under the previous close.
The sell wall at $3.63
The run started at 11:31 a.m. Since 7:45 a.m., someone had been offering stock at exactly $3.63. At its biggest that was 38,162 shares, about 1.3% of the float. It was still there as the stock came up to it.
Stop It's 11:45. CDTG is at $3.49, up from $2.61 at 11:31. A sell wall has been sitting at $3.63 since 7:45 a.m. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 11:45 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 11:42 a.m. ET.
At 11:46:06 trades started printing at $3.63. In about five seconds, 32,208 shares traded at exactly $3.63, and the wall was gone at 11:46:12. One buy order of 28,726 shares swept from $3.63 to $3.70 across 6 levels.
It ran on to $4.55 at 11:55 a.m., up 74% from $2.61. Then it fell to $3.40 at 11:57 a.m., down 25% from $4.55.
The float changes hands, and the swings
It ran to $4.30 at 12:00 p.m., then fell to $3.37 at 12:05 p.m., down 22%. By 12:06 p.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (2.84 million).
Soon after, a bid appeared at $3.46. It grew to 120,600 shares by 12:25 p.m., about 4.2% of the float, and was pulled at 1:17 p.m.
From $3.81 at 12:25 p.m. it ran to $5.39 at 12:41 p.m., up 42%. A sell wall at $5.83 (peak 48,002 shares) was pulled at 12:41 p.m., the same minute as the $5.39 high.
From $4.37 at 12:49 p.m. it ran to $6.01 at 1:01 p.m., up 38%. Then it fell to $3.92 at 1:19 p.m., down 35% from $6.01.
One halt and $4.72 to $7.78
From $4.72 at 1:59 p.m. it ran to $7.78 at 2:15 p.m., up 65%. The buying came in big orders. At 2:12 p.m. one swept $6.00 to $6.04, and at 2:14 p.m. another swept $7.00 to $7.10.
At 2:16 p.m. it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $7.78.
Stop It's 2:21. CDTG has been halted since 2:16, and the last trade was $7.78. A big sell wall has appeared at $7.00. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 2:21 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 2:18 p.m. ET.
It reopened at 2:21:13 p.m. at $7.00, 10% below where it stopped. The wall at $7.00 peaked at 100,477 shares, about 3.5% of the float. The reopening cross was a single 65,397-share print at $7.00. Apart from that print, 23,233 shares traded at exactly $7.00 in 2.4 seconds, and the wall was pulled at 2:21:16. That minute went as low as $6.60.
Back toward the high
It worked back up from $6.33 at 2:49 p.m.
Stop It's 2:56. CDTG is at $7.23, just under the $7.78 high from 2:15. It has climbed from $6.33 at 2:49. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 2:56 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 2:53 p.m. ET.
The 2:56 minute ran to $8.00. Then $8.48, the high of the day, printed at 2:57 p.m. By 3:01 p.m. it had traded down to $7.28.
Then it fell to $4.31 at 3:16 p.m., down 49% from $8.48.
It came back once more. At 3:20 p.m. it pushed to $5.14, a lower high under the $8.48 top.
The bid at $3.65 and the close
From 3:16 p.m. on, someone was bidding for a lot of stock at exactly $3.65. It peaked at 133,204 shares at 3:30 p.m., about 5% of the float.
The bid stayed until 3:56 p.m. At 3:56:33 p.m. trades started printing at $3.65, and in under a second, 57,917 shares traded at $3.65 and the bid was eaten. Sellers hit it.
It closed at $3.29, 61% under the $8.48 high of the day.
For the whole day to the close, 14.84 million shares traded: the float changed hands about 5 times, at 41 times its normal volume.
What to take from it
- A halt can reopen lower than it stopped. The 2:16 p.m. halt stopped at $7.78 and reopened at $7.00.
- After the top, the next push stopped lower. $8.48 at 2:57 p.m., then $5.14 at 3:20 p.m.
- Almost all of the move was gone by the close. It closed at $3.29, 61% below the $8.48 high.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for CDTG published between the previous session's close and the first minute CDTG traded 20% above it, at 7:37 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 up 5.0% at 2.94, then ran from the open to the high of 8.48 in 327 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:37 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.80 | |
| 7:40 a.m. | Pre-market high, 3.71 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 2.94, up 5.0% from the previous close | |
| 12:06 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.84 million shares | |
| 2:16 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 2:21 p.m. | |
| 2:57 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 8.48 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 3.29, 61.2% 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: 916,394 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (6%), 50,705 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 14.31 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (94%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.84 million shares: past it once at 12:06 p.m., twice at 12:53 p.m., three times at 1:39 p.m.
- The halt at 2:16 p.m.: up 39.4% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 7.00, down 10.0% from the last trade before it, then down 7.0% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days CDTG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on September 4, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:16 p.m. | 2:21 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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.
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