Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 26, 2026
RPGL on August 26, 2026: why it ran
On August 26, 2026, RPGL opened up 11.8% from the previous close of 1.99 and reached 2.50 at 3:25 p.m. ET. The exchange halted it 2 times.
- Previous close
- 1.99
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 2.22
- Gap at the open
- up 11.8%
- Pre-market high
- 2.33 at 7:09 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.50 at 3:25 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.16
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.52 at 4:39 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 2.34
- Volume
- 1.16 million
- Relative volume
- 6.5x
- Float
- 16.12 million shares, from filings as of August 26, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 16.12 million
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for RPGL published between the previous session's close and the first minute RPGL traded 20% above it, at 3:24 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 11.8% to 2.22 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 2.50 in 355 minutes through two halts, then gave back 57% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 2.34.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:09 a.m. | Pre-market high, 2.33 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 2.22, up 11.8% from the previous close |
| 12:10 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 12:28 p.m. |
| 12:28 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 12:33 p.m. |
| 3:24 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 1.99 |
| 3:25 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 2.50 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 2.34, 6.4% 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: 13,480 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 7,813 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 1.14 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- The halt at 12:10 p.m.: down 21.0% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 1.16, down 30.1% from the last trade before it.
- The halt at 12:28 p.m.: down 30.1% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 1.50, up 29.3% from the last trade before it, then up 6.7% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days RPGL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on October 2, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:10 p.m. | 12:28 p.m. | 17 min 32 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:28 p.m. | 12:33 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.
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