Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 24, 2026
LGHL on August 24, 2026: why it ran
On August 24, 2026, LGHL opened up 9.8% from the previous close of 0.6080 and reached 1.00 at 9:19 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 0.6080
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 0.6675
- Gap at the open
- up 9.8%
- Pre-market high
- 1.00 at 9:19 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.00 at 9:19 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.5900
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 0.6570 at 5:29 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 0.6151
- Volume
- 27.21 million
- Relative volume
- 6.2x
- Float
- 515,716 shares, from filings as of August 24, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 518,491
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Replay LGHL's day
It starts at 9:01 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:04 a.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: pre-market
- Catalyst: news
- Float traded 53x
- Lower high
- Faded into the close
Quiet until 9:15
On August 21, LGHL traded between $0.59 and $0.68 and closed at $0.61.
The first trades on the 24th were around $0.65, above that close. Then it drifted lower. It touched $0.59 at 7:25 a.m. on a burst of about 9,000 shares, and was back around $0.61 by 9:14. That minute traded 51 shares.
9:15: the headline and the run
At 9:15 a.m. PRNewsWire ran: “Lion Group Holding Ltd. Reaffirms Long-Term Commitment to Hyperliquid (HYPE) Holdings”. The company also filed a 6-K (a foreign company's current report) in that same minute. The 9:15 minute traded 89,682 shares, more than any earlier minute that morning.
The float is 515,716 shares. By 9:17 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float.
Stop It's 9:19. LGHL is at $0.89, up from a $0.61 close. A headline came out four minutes ago, and more shares have already traded than the float holds. The bell is 11 minutes away. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 9:19 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 9:16 a.m. ET.
It hit $1.00, the high so far, at 9:19 a.m., before the bell. By 9:22 it had dipped to $0.73. The 9:20 minute was the busiest of the day, at 1.46 million shares.
Level 2 also shows an ask wall at exactly $1.00. It was first seen at 9:19:29, in the same minute as the high.
The lower high and the open
It came back once more. At 9:27 a.m. it pushed to $0.88, a lower high under the $1.00 top. Then it dropped. The 9:29 minute ran from $0.79 to a low of $0.63 on 892,138 shares. That minute included a sell of 43,116 shares at 9:29:28 that went through 65 price levels in a split second.
It opened at $0.67, up 10% from the previous close. Pre-market volume was 9.61 million shares.
The first minute after the open went up to $0.73. By 9:31 it had dipped to $0.61. After that it moved between about $0.62 and $0.86 for the next hour.
The wall at $0.79
From 10:32 a.m. on, a lot of stock was offered at exactly $0.79. Across all exchanges, the size peaked at 63,696 shares at 10:45 a.m., about 12% of the float. By then the stock was trading around $0.66, well under it.
It was not the only wall. A wall at $0.80 first appeared at 10:00. Walls at $0.85 and $0.95 were also on the book that morning. They sat above a stock that was now stuck in a range.
Stop It's 11:30. LGHL is at $0.72. An ask wall has sat at $0.79 since 10:32, and the stock has traded between $0.65 and $0.73 since 10:35. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 11:30 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 11:27 a.m. ET.
Here's what happened. The 11:30 minute went up to $0.74. At 11:31:21 the $0.79 wall was pulled: the size left the book without trading there. The stock didn't break above it. At 11:31 the high was $0.74, and by 11:32 it was back at $0.71.
The afternoon
It spent the early afternoon around $0.65 to $0.73. At 1:16 p.m. a sell of 93,782 shares went through 19 price levels, down to $0.65.
Stop It's 1:26 p.m. LGHL is at $0.65. It has kept coming back to $0.65 since 1:16. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 1:26 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 1:23 p.m. ET.
The 1:26 minute had the day's low after the open. A sell of 48,609 shares ran from $0.6256 down to $0.605 in one sweep, and the stock hit $0.605. It bounced to $0.63 within two minutes and then traded between about $0.61 and $0.66 into the close. The $1.00 ask wall from 9:19 was still there; its size peaked at 108,372 shares at 3:57 p.m., about 21% of the float.
The 3:59 p.m. bar closed at $0.62, about 38% below the $1.00 high. After hours it bounced to $0.66 at 5:29 p.m. and was back near $0.60 by 7:37 p.m.
The regular session (9:30 to 4:00) traded 16.98 million shares. Counting pre-market (9.61 million) and after hours, the whole day was 27.21 million shares: the float changed hands about 53 times, at about 6 times normal volume.
What to take from it
- After the top, the next push stopped lower. $1.00 at 9:19 a.m., then $0.88 at 9:27 a.m.
- A wall can be pulled instead of broken. The $0.79 wall left the book at 11:31 without trading there, and the stock stayed below $0.79 for the rest of the day.
- The float traded over before the open. By 9:17 a.m. more shares had traded than the float holds. By the close, almost all of the move was gone.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for LGHL published between the previous session's close and the first minute LGHL traded 20% above it, at 9:16 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
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Lion Group Holding Ltd. Reaffirms Long-Term Commitment to Hyperliquid (HYPE) Holdings
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Intraday run. It opened up 9.8% at 0.6675, then ran from the open to the high of 0.8587 in 22 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:15 a.m. | News (PRNewsWire): Lion Group Holding Ltd. Reaffirms Long-Term Commitment to Hyperliquid (HYPE) Holdings | |
| 9:15 a.m. | SEC filing 6-K: REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER | |
| 9:16 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 0.6080 | |
| 9:17 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 515,716 shares | |
| 9:19 a.m. | Pre-market high, 1.00 | |
| 9:19 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 1.00 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 0.6675, up 9.8% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 0.6151, 38.5% 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
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest SEC filing before it (6-K, 9:15 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 9.61 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (35%), 8.56 million in the first 30 minutes (31%), and 9.04 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (33%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 515,716 shares: past it once at 9:17 a.m., twice at 9:18 a.m., three times at 9:18 a.m.
- Other days LGHL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on October 6, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for LGHL 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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