FLUX on August 20, 2026: why it ran

The day, step by step

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Sub-$1 stock
• Ask wall at a round number
• Catalyst: earnings (after the close)
• Main move: after hours
• Faded after hours

Pre-market and the open

The official previous close was $0.71. The first trade of the 20th printed at 4:05 a.m. at $0.73, for 9 shares. Pre-market was thin. The pre-market high was $0.76 at 9:29 a.m., and just 8,510 shares traded before the bell. The float is 17.1 million shares.

It opened at $0.75, up 6% from the previous close. It ran to $0.79 at 9:58 a.m.

Morning and midday: two lower lows

At 10:14 a 10,700-share sell order went through four price levels, from $0.7421 to $0.7375. By 10:25 the stock was at $0.68, down 9% from the open. That minute traded 13,283 shares.

It chopped around $0.69 and $0.70. At 11:47 another sell order, 17,599 shares, went from $0.724 down to $0.6981 across three levels. Then it ran to $0.75 at 12:13 p.m.

That run didn't hold either. It fell to $0.67 at 1:40 p.m., down 10% from the $0.75 high. That was the regular-session low so far.

The wall at $0.80

From 1:57 p.m., someone was offering stock at exactly $0.80. The size grew and peaked at 98,681 shares at 2:38 p.m., about 0.6% of the float. Until about 3:05 the stock stayed between $0.70 and $0.74. At 3:06 it started working up from $0.74, and by 3:15 it was just under $0.80.

Here's what happened. At 3:22:36 a buy order for 22,457 shares went through four price levels, from $0.7954 to $0.802. In that one second, 22,037 shares traded at exactly $0.80. At 3:22:37 the wall was gone.

There was no breakout. That minute's high was $0.8032 and it closed at $0.7999. By 3:27 it was back at $0.77.

The top at $0.85

At 3:40 a 12,453-share sell order went through six levels, from $0.7751 to $0.77. At 3:45 it started to climb, and at 3:49 p.m. it hit $0.85, the regular-session high so far, up 20% from the previous close. The 3:48 minute was the biggest of the day to that point, with 57,961 shares.

Just before the top, at 3:48:58, a 37,624-share sell order went from $0.8312 to $0.8226 across three levels.

By 3:51 it traded as low as $0.78. It came back to $0.81 and $0.82 in the last minutes, with a 10,336-share buy at 3:58 and a high of $0.84 that minute. The last regular-session minute closed at $0.82.

By the close, 650,237 shares had traded in the regular session. That is a small fraction of the 17.1-million-share float.

After hours

Here's what happened. In the 4:02 minute it went from $0.85 to $1.13, the high of the day, up 59% from the previous close. 170,980 shares traded in that one minute.

The news came after the spike. At 4:05 p.m. GlobeNewsWire ran: “Flux Power Reports 2026 Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full Year Financial Results”. The company filed an 8-K and a 10-K (the annual report) in the same minute. The stock was already at $1.13 three minutes earlier.

In the 4:05 minute it traded between $1.02 and $0.90. It touched $1.12 again at 4:07, then sold off. It was at $0.75 by 4:18 and bounced to $0.81 at 4:23.

At 6:26 p.m. Zacks Investment Research ran: “Flux Power Holdings, Inc. (FLUX) Reports Q4 Loss, Tops Revenue Estimates”. The stock was trading around $0.67 and $0.68 then.

It dropped in the last two minutes, with 28,339 shares at 7:58 and 17,400 at 7:59. At 7:59 p.m. it traded $0.62, down 45% from the $1.13 high. After hours, 4,746,304 shares traded, more than seven times the regular session. For the whole day, 5,405,051 shares traded, a relative volume of about 122.

What to take from it

• After hours can undo the day. FLUX traded at $1.13 at 4:02 p.m. and at $0.62 by 7:59 p.m.
• Check the time on the headline. Here the spike to $1.13 came three minutes before the 4:05 p.m. headline and filings.
• A wall leaving the book is not the same as a breakout. The $0.80 wall was gone at 3:22:37, and the stock was back at $0.77 by 3:27. The $0.85 top came 27 minutes after the wall left.

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