Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 21, 2026
HOWL on August 21, 2026: why it ran
On August 21, 2026, HOWL opened up 127.5% from the previous close of 0.4312 and reached 1.19 at 8:21 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.
- Previous close
- 0.4312
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 0.9810
- Gap at the open
- up 127.5%
- Pre-market high
- 1.19 at 8:21 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.19 at 8:21 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.7001
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 0.8999 at 4:00 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 0.8800
- Volume
- 91.75 million
- Relative volume
- 52.3x
- Float
- 45.93 million shares, from filings as of August 21, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 48.60 million
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for HOWL published between the previous session's close and the first minute HOWL traded 20% above it, at 4:00 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Gap and fade. It gapped up 127.5% to 0.9810 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at 0.8800.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 0.4312 |
| 7:55 a.m. | Halted: News pending. Trading resumes at 8:20 a.m. |
| 8:21 a.m. | Pre-market high, 1.19 |
| 8:21 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 1.19 |
| 9:12 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 45.93 million shares |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 0.9810, up 127.5% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 0.8800, 26.1% 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: 50.60 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (55%), 12.13 million in the first 30 minutes (13%), and 29.02 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (32%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 45.93 million shares: past it once at 9:12 a.m.
- The halt at 7:55 a.m.: down 0.1% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 0.7890, up 4.8% from the last trade before it, then up 34.3% over the next 5 minutes.
- In our recaps, this is the only day HOWL met the small-cap rule.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:55 a.m. | 8:20 a.m. | 25 min 0 s | News pending |
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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