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RCON on August 18, 2026: why it ran

Published October 9, 2026 · By Hindsight Markets

On August 18, 2026, RCON opened down 5.1% from the previous close of 4.48 and reached 6.41 at 10:42 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it 4 times.

Previous close

4.48

Open, 9:30 a.m.

4.25

Gap at the open

down 5.1%

Pre-market high

5.40 at 9:00 a.m.

High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.

6.41 at 10:42 a.m.

Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.

3.01

After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

6.70 at 4:56 p.m.

Last trade before 4:00 p.m.

3.35

Volume

2.71 million

Relative volume

21.6x

Float

950,506 shares, from filings as of August 18, 2026

Shares outstanding

963,224

Halts

4

Why it ran

News and SEC filings for RCON published between the previous session's close and the first minute RCON traded 20% above it, at 9:00 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 5.1% at 4.25, then ran from the open to the high of 6.41 in 72 minutes through a halt.

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: 30,556 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 45,714 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 2.63 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (97%).
• Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 950,506 shares: past it once at 4:45 p.m., twice at 5:02 p.m.
• The halt at 10:36 a.m.: up 12.1% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 6.00, down 0.5% from the last trade before it, then down 10.5% over the next 5 minutes.
• The halt at 10:45 a.m.: down 10.9% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 5.10, down 5.0% from the last trade before it, then down 11.8% over the next 5 minutes.
• The halt at 10:52 a.m.: down 16.2% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 4.46, down 0.9% from the last trade before it, then up 14.6% over the next 5 minutes.
• The halt at 11:01 a.m.: up 13.6% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 5.10, down 0.2% from the last trade before it, then down 3.9% over the next 5 minutes.
• Other days RCON met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 25, 2026.
• The next session, August 19, 2026, it gapped up 18.6% at 9:30 a.m.

Halts

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.