Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 20, 2026
ISPC on August 20, 2026: why it ran
On August 20, 2026, ISPC opened up 2.5% from the previous close of 2.38 and reached 2.57 at 11:42 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 2.38
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 2.44
- Gap at the open
- up 2.5%
- Pre-market high
- 2.44 at 9:25 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.57 at 11:42 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.20
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.14 at 4:34 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 2.28
- Volume
- 3.90 million
- Relative volume
- 118.0x
- Float
- 2.52 million shares, from filings as of August 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.52 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for ISPC published between the previous session's close and the first minute ISPC traded 20% above it, at 4:31 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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iSpecimen Completes Large-Scale International Cancer Research Order; Samples Shipped Within Three Weeks
News via Stock News API
How it traded
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:25 a.m. | Pre-market high, 2.44 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 2.44, up 2.5% from the previous close |
| 11:42 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 2.57 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 2.28, 11.3% below the high |
| 4:05 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): iSpecimen Completes Large-Scale International Cancer Research Order; Samples Shipped Within Three Weeks |
| 4:31 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.38 |
| 4:48 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.52 million shares |
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 26 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 4:05 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1,047 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,716 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 3.89 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.52 million shares: past it once at 4:48 p.m.
- Other days ISPC met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 24, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for ISPC 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.
Trade this day
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