Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 19, 2026
CDTG on August 19, 2026: why it ran
On August 19, 2026, CDTG opened down 11.0% from the previous close of 3.28 and reached 8.33 at 2:32 p.m. ET. The exchange halted it 7 times.
- Previous close
- 3.28
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 2.92
- Gap at the open
- down 11.0%
- Pre-market high
- 3.29 at 4:49 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 8.33 at 2:32 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.53
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.13 at 7:53 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 3.03
- Volume
- 17.68 million
- Relative volume
- 15.8x
- Float
- 2.84 million shares, from filings as of August 19, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.02 million
Replay CDTG's day
It starts at 11:59 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 12:02 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
- Gapped down, then ran
- Halted seven times
- Lower high
- Float traded 6x
- Faded to the close
The day before and pre-market
On August 18, CDTG ran from $3.15 to $8.48. It gave almost all of it back and closed at $3.28.
The first trades on the 19th were at $3.11, below that close. Pre-market was quiet. The high was $3.29 at 4:49 a.m., and just 140,923 shares traded before the bell. Later, from 9:03, a bid of up to 45,914 shares sat at $2.74 for a few minutes. It was pulled at 9:06.
The open and the first halts
It opened at $2.92, down 11% from the previous close, and dipped to $2.60 at 9:31. Then it climbed. By 9:57 it was at $3.44.
At 9:58:05 it was halted (a volatility pause). It reopened at 10:08 at $3.48 and chopped between about $2.90 and $4.01 until the next halt at 11:12.
At 11:12:51 it was halted again, after trading at $3.41. It reopened at 11:17:51 at $3.37, lower than where it stopped. It then pushed to $4.19 at 11:28.
At 12:01 a minute with 43,844 shares dropped it to $3.49. By 12:06 buyers were back. One buy sweep took 30,777 shares from $4.02 to $4.08 across 7 price levels.
Noon: three halts in 17 minutes
At 12:07:33 it was halted at $4.31. It reopened at 12:12:33 at $4.38 and ran to $5.33 by 12:17. At 12:17:56 it was halted again. It reopened at 12:22:56 at $5.46, and 34,572 shares printed in a single trade at that price.
It touched $5.63 in the next minute, then fell back to $4.87. At 12:24:03 it was halted for the third time since noon (the fifth of the day), for ten minutes. It reopened at 12:34:03 at $4.66, below the $4.86 it had traded at before the halt.
At 12:34 a bid of 106,972 shares at $4.55 appeared, about 3.8% of the float. Around the same time, an ask wall of 75,100 shares appeared at $5.97 (12:36:55). By 12:38 p.m., counting pre-market, more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (2.84 million).
Three runs and two walls
From $4.62 at 12:34 p.m. it ran to $5.91 at 12:50 p.m., up 28%. After a dip to $5.12 at 12:53, it ran to $6.56 at 1:03 p.m., up 28%.
The $5.97 ask wall left the book at 1:00:22 p.m. Just 1,254 shares traded at exactly $5.97, so most of it never traded there. At 1:02 another ask wall, 50,000 shares at $7.49, appeared. It was pulled at 1:03.
From $5.60 at 1:14 p.m. it ran to $7.49 at 1:24 p.m., up 34%. Then it spent an hour in a range, mostly $6.00 to $7.00.
The 2:30 p.m. push
At 2:21 p.m. it dipped to $6.44 and bounced. At 2:26 a buy sweep of 36,319 shares went from $7.20 to $7.44 across 25 price levels. At 2:27 another buy sweep took 32,730 shares from $7.48 to $7.63. By 2:31 it was trading around $7.50.
Stop It's 2:32 p.m. CDTG is at $7.56. It has climbed from a $6.44 low at 2:21 and buyers have been sweeping the offers since 2:26. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 2:32 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 2:29 p.m. ET.
Here's what happened. At 2:32:06 a buy sweep of 31,454 shares ran from $7.73 to $7.93. At 2:32:13 another sweep took 69,699 shares from $7.97 to $8.32 across 34 levels. It hit $8.33, the high so far, in that minute. Within two minutes, at 2:34, it was back at $7.45.
A lower high and a halt
It came back once more. At 2:36 p.m. it pushed to $8.27, a lower high under the $8.33 top. From there it slid. It was $6.42 at 2:43.
At 2:44:03 it was halted at $6.42. The $4.55 bid from 12:34 left the book two seconds later.
Stop It's 2:54 p.m. CDTG has been halted since 2:44 with the last trade at $6.42. Trading is about to resume. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 2:54 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 2:51 p.m. ET.
Here's what happened. It reopened at 2:54:03 p.m. at $6.01, below where it stopped. The first print was 30,059 shares at $6.01. In the next minute it traded as low as $5.30.
The bid at $3.15 and the close
It kept falling: $4.67 at 3:01 p.m., $4.24 at 3:10, $3.80 at 3:20. From 3:11 p.m. on, a bid sat at exactly $3.15.
Stop It's 3:29 p.m. CDTG is at $3.34, down from $8.33 at 2:32. A bid has been sitting at $3.15 since 3:11. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 3:29 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 3:26 p.m. ET.
Here's what happened. The bid had grown to 104,656 shares by 3:29:43, about 3.7% of the float. At 3:29:43 trades printed at $3.15. In under a second, 104,834 shares traded at exactly $3.15 and the bid was gone. It wasn't pulled. Sellers hit it. One sell sweep of 118,403 shares ran from $3.27 to $3.14.
At 3:29:58 it was halted for the seventh time. It reopened at 3:34:58 at $3.13.
It dipped to $2.78 at 3:53 p.m. and finished at $3.03 at the close.
By the close, 17.19 million shares had traded in the regular session: the float changed hands about 6 times.
What to take from it
- After the top, the next push stopped lower. $8.33 at 2:32 p.m., then $8.27 at 2:36 p.m.
- A halt can reopen lower than it stopped, and the book can be thin when it does. The 2:44 p.m. halt stopped at $6.42 and reopened at $6.01, and a 5,000-share buy cost $939 more than the screen showed.
- A big bid is not a floor. The 104,656-share bid at $3.15 was eaten in under a second, and the stock closed at $3.03, 64% below the $8.33 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 10:25 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 11.0% at 2.92, then ran from the open to the high of 8.33 in 302 minutes through 5 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:49 a.m. | Pre-market high, 3.29 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 2.92, down 11.0% from the previous close | |
| 9:58 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 10:08 a.m. | |
| 10:25 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 3.28 | |
| 11:12 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 11:17 a.m. | |
| 12:07 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 12:12 p.m. | |
| 12:17 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 12:22 p.m. | |
| 12:24 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 12:34 p.m. | |
| 12:38 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.84 million shares | |
| 2:32 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 8.33 | |
| 2:44 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 2:54 p.m. | |
| 3:29 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 3:34 p.m. | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 3.03, 63.6% 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: 140,923 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 75,793 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 17.47 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.84 million shares: past it once at 12:38 p.m., twice at 1:04 p.m., three times at 1:34 p.m.
- The halt at 9:58 a.m.: up 14.7% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.48, up 1.2% from the last trade before it, then unchanged over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 11:12 a.m.: up 10.4% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.37, down 1.2% from the last trade before it, then up 9.2% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 12:07 p.m.: up 14.9% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 4.38, up 1.6% from the last trade before it, then up 17.8% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 12:17 p.m.: up 14.6% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 5.46, up 2.4% from the last trade before it, then down 11.0% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 12:24 p.m.: down 8.8% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 4.66, down 4.1% from the last trade before it, then up 13.1% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 2:44 p.m.: down 10.7% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 6.01, down 6.4% from the last trade before it, then down 14.5% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 3:29 p.m.: down 17.2% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.13, down 0.3% from the last trade before it, then down 5.4% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days CDTG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on September 4, 2026.
- The next session, August 20, 2026, it gapped up 18.8% at 9:30 a.m.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:58 a.m. | 10:08 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 11:12 a.m. | 11:17 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:07 p.m. | 12:12 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:17 p.m. | 12:22 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:24 p.m. | 12:34 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:44 p.m. | 2:54 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:29 p.m. | 3:34 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.
Trade this day
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