Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 20, 2026
NXTT on August 20, 2026: why it ran
On August 20, 2026, NXTT opened down 1.5% from the previous close of 6.64 and reached 13.21 at 1:08 p.m. ET. The exchange halted it 2 times.
- Previous close
- 6.64
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 6.54
- Gap at the open
- down 1.5%
- Pre-market high
- 6.86 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 13.21 at 1:08 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 6.24
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 10.29 at 5:20 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 8.00
- Volume
- 2.04 million
- Relative volume
- 28.6x
- Float
- 1.47 million shares, from filings as of August 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.47 million
Replay NXTT's day
It starts at 12:50 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 12:53 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: midday
- Halted twice
- Halt reopen
- Float traded 1x
- Faded into the close
The day before
On August 19, NXTT traded between $5.51 and $7.45. The official close was $6.64. 63,409 shares traded that day.
Pre-market: a quiet drift
The pre-market high was $6.86 at 4:00 a.m. It sank to $6.24 by 4:08 a.m., then drifted between about $6.28 and $6.85 for the rest of the morning. 15,395 shares traded before the bell.
A slow morning near $7
It opened at $6.54, about 1.5% under the previous close. The 9:31 minute was the busiest of the first half hour, 3,680 shares, and it pushed to $6.84. It touched $7.00 at 9:38.
The next two hours were small. It chopped between about $6.76 and $7.76. At 11:16 it reached $7.76. By 11:44 it was back at $7.30. It was drifting on small volume.
Around noon it picked up. It touched $8.00 at 12:09 and again at 12:10, then traded between about $7.65 and $8.00 until 12:35.
The run and the halt
The move began at 12:39. At 12:43 it hit $9.08, on 15,409 shares, a big minute for this stock. At 12:47 the volume jumped to 38,385 shares. At 12:48 it reached $9.94, on 46,753 shares.
It slipped to $8.69 at 12:50, then came back. At 12:55 it traded through $10.00 and hit $10.40, on 68,761 shares. By 12:58 it had reached $11.12.
At 12:58:34 it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $11.12. The halt lasted ten minutes.
Stop It's 1:08. NXTT has been halted for ten minutes, with the last trade at $11.12. It's about to reopen. Would you buy the reopen?
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It reopened at 1:08:34 p.m. at $12.05, 8% above the halt price. The first print was one trade of 39,540 shares at $12.05. The high of the day came in that same minute: $13.21.
The 1:08 minute closed at $12.65 on 111,058 shares. At 1:09 it dropped to $11.29. At 1:10:36 a single sell order went through 16 price levels, from $11.13 to $10.98, 12,081 shares in all. By 1:11 it was at $10.84. Within three minutes of the top it was lower than where it reopened.
A lower high, then the second halt
It bounced. At 1:12 it pushed to $12.20, a lower high under $13.21. Then it slid again, to $10.30 at 1:15.
At 1:16:58 it was halted again with the last trade at $10.06. It reopened at 1:21:58 at $9.69, 4% below where it stopped. The first print was 11,974 shares at $9.69.
This time the reopen went down. It bounced to $10.35 at 1:22, then fell to $8.95 at 1:23 and $8.04 at 1:28.
The fade to the close
By 1:33 p.m., counting pre-market, more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (1.47 million). The stock kept sinking, to $7.65 at 1:44 and $7.35 at 1:56. After that it settled into a range of roughly $7.37 to $8.40 for the last two hours.
It closed at $8.00. For the regular session, 1.83 million shares traded: about 1.25 times the float, at 29 times relative volume.
After hours
After hours it stayed near $8 until about 5:13 p.m. Then it ran. It went from $8.08 at 5:14 to $10.29 at 5:20. It fell back to $8.68 by 5:24 and was around $8.06 by 5:29. It ended the evening near $8.09.
What to take from it
- The book was thin at the first reopen. At the first reopen the screen said $12.58, but a 5,000-share buy averaged $12.90.
- The top came in the same minute as the reopen. $13.21 printed at 1:08, and within three minutes the price was below the $12.05 reopen.
- The second halt reopened lower. The 1:16 halt stopped at $10.06 and reopened at $9.69. The first halt reopened higher, at $12.05 after stopping at $11.12.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for NXTT published between the previous session's close and the first minute NXTT traded 20% above it, at 12:02 p.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 1.5% at 6.54, then ran from the open to the high of 13.21 in 218 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, 6.86 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 6.54, down 1.5% from the previous close | |
| 12:02 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 6.64 | |
| 12:58 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 1:08 p.m. | |
| 1:08 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 13.21 | |
| 1:16 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 1:21 p.m. | |
| 1:33 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.47 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 8.00, 39.4% 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: 15,395 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 8,352 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 2.02 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.47 million shares: past it once at 1:33 p.m.
- The halt at 12:58 p.m.: up 23.0% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 12.05, up 8.4% from the last trade before it, then down 3.2% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 1:16 p.m.: down 7.5% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 9.69, down 3.7% from the last trade before it, then down 7.6% over the next 5 minutes.
- In our recaps, this is the only day NXTT met the small-cap rule.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:58 p.m. | 1:08 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:16 p.m. | 1:21 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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