Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 19, 2026
LOOP on August 19, 2026: why it ran
On August 19, 2026, LOOP opened down 2.0% from the previous close of 0.6325 and reached 0.6640 at 10:17 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 0.6325
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 0.6200
- Gap at the open
- down 2.0%
- Pre-market high
- not available
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.6640 at 10:17 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.6200
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.47 at 5:18 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 0.6201
- Volume
- 15.68 million
- Relative volume
- 559.9x
- Float
- 26.54 million shares, from filings as of August 19, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 48.38 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for LOOP published between the previous session's close and the first minute LOOP traded 20% above it, at 4:36 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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FORM 8-K
How it traded
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 0.6200, down 2.0% from the previous close |
| 10:17 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 0.6640 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 0.6201, 6.6% below the high |
| 4:31 p.m. | SEC filing 8-K: FORM 8-K |
| 4:36 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 0.6325 |
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 4 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 4:31 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 0 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 724 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 15.68 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days LOOP met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 20, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for LOOP 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.
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