Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 20, 2026
RYOJ on August 20, 2026: why it ran
On August 20, 2026, RYOJ opened down 10.8% from the previous close of 4.62 and reached 4.77 at 3:55 p.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 4.62
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 4.12
- Gap at the open
- down 10.8%
- Pre-market high
- 4.29 at 6:11 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.77 at 3:55 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.04
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 6.20 at 4:09 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 4.59
- Volume
- 428,445
- Relative volume
- 8.8x
- Float
- 3.18 million shares, from filings as of August 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 11.55 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for RYOJ published between the previous session's close and the first minute RYOJ traded 20% above it, at 4:09 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 10.8% at 4.12, then ran from the open to the high of 4.77 in 385 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:11 a.m. | Pre-market high, 4.29 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 4.12, down 10.8% from the previous close |
| 3:55 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 4.77 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 4.59, 3.8% below the high |
| 4:09 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 4.62 |
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: 12,209 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (3%), 4,803 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 411,433 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (96%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day RYOJ met the small-cap rule.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for RYOJ 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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