Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 27, 2026
NMTC on August 27, 2026: why it ran
On August 27, 2026, NMTC opened up 6.4% from the previous close of 2.03 and reached 3.49 at 9:44 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.
- Previous close
- 2.03
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 2.16
- Gap at the open
- up 6.4%
- Pre-market high
- 2.35 at 9:01 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.49 at 9:44 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.89
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.12 at 7:07 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 1.99
- Volume
- 6.10 million
- Relative volume
- 215.2x
- Float
- 8.12 million shares, from filings as of August 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 9.11 million
Replay NMTC's day
It starts at 9:19 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:22 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: the open
- Catalyst: filing
- Halted once
- Halt reopen
- Faded to the lows
The day before
On August 26, NMTC closed at $2.03. 6,790 shares traded that day. Its last bar was $2.24, which matched the high of the day.
Pre-market: thin, then $2.35
The first trade on the 27th was 15 shares at $2.09 at 7:39 a.m. From 7:39 to 8:54 a.m. just four minutes had trades, and 200 shares was the biggest.
At 8:57 a.m. it woke up. It ran from $2.10 to the pre-market high, $2.35 at 9:01 a.m. 25,563 shares traded before the bell, in a stock with a float of about 8.1 million.
At 9:05 a.m. the company filed an 8-K (a current report). No headline was given with the filing. The stock traded between $2.23 and $2.27 in that minute.
The open
It opened at $2.16, up 6% from the $2.03 close. In the opening minute it cleared the pre-market high, trading up to $2.37. Volume was 11,931 shares in that minute.
Then the minutes got bigger. 41,314 shares traded at 9:32.
Stop It's 9:33. NMTC is at $2.68. It opened at $2.16 three minutes ago and is already above the $2.35 pre-market high. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 9:33 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 9:30 a.m. ET.
In the 9:33 minute, 150,416 shares traded as the price went from $2.68 to $3.16, passing $3.00 for the first time. At 9:34:07 it was halted (a volatility pause). The last trade before the stop was $3.16.
The reopen
Stop It's 9:44. NMTC last traded at $3.16 and has been halted since 9:34:07. Trading resumes in seconds. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 9:44 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 9:41 a.m. ET.
Here is what happened. The halt lasted ten minutes. At 9:44:07 trading resumed, and the first print was big: 147,352 shares at $3.48 on Nasdaq. That was 10% above where it stopped. The $3.49 high of the day came in that same minute. One second after the reopen, sell orders started going through the book. At 9:44:08 a 22,618-share sell went from $3.46 to $3.38 across 9 levels. Another 25,088 shares went from $3.38 to $3.30. At 9:44:18 a 50,375-share sell went from $3.32 to $3.17 across 16 levels.
The 9:44 minute traded 854,550 shares and closed at $3.07. By the 9:46 minute it had touched $2.77, within two minutes of the high.
Lower highs and the slide
It bounced twice. At 9:45 it reached $3.22, and at 9:47 it pushed to $3.08. Both were under the $3.49 top. Sells swept the book again at 9:45:17 (24,811 shares, $3.02 to $2.95) and at 9:46:36 (31,209 shares, $2.86 to $2.80).
At 10:01 it fell from $2.53 to $2.33, under the $2.40 low from 9:53. A 25,000-share print hit the ask at $2.43, and in the same second a 54,622-share sell went from $2.47 to $2.33 across 15 levels. From there it settled between about $2.18 and $2.32 from 10:17 to 10:33, then slid again.
It fell under the $2.03 previous close at 10:41, when a 23,055-share sell went from $2.04 to $1.97. The low after the open was $1.89, first hit at 10:49.
The bids underneath
At times there were large bids resting below the price.
A bid at $1.81 first showed at 7:39 a.m., with 45,477 shares. It was pulled at 9:37:38, during the halt. At 9:53:35 a new bid appeared at $1.87 and grew to 51,698 shares by 10:47:20. The low of $1.89 came two minutes later; no trade printed at or below $1.87.
At 12:18:48 the $1.87 bid was pulled and a bid appeared at $1.81 again. It peaked at 52,531 shares at 2:13 p.m. and was pulled at 3:11:47 p.m. At that same second a bid appeared at $1.89. It was at 55,024 shares at 3:21 p.m.
The rest of the day
The afternoon was quiet. Most minutes traded a few hundred to a few thousand shares, between about $1.89 and $2.05. In the last regular minute, 3:59 p.m., it traded at $1.99. That is 43% under the $3.49 high and under the $2.03 previous close.
After hours it bounced from $1.99 to $2.12 by 7:07 p.m. (17,065 shares traded in the 7:05 minute). After-hours volume was 88,387 shares.
The regular session traded 5.99 million shares, and the whole day 6.10 million. That is about three-quarters of the 8.1 million float, at 215 times its normal volume.
What to take from it
- A halt can reopen higher than it stopped, and the top can come right at the reopen. The halt stopped at $3.16, reopened at $3.48, and the $3.49 high came in the same minute.
- After the top, the bounces stopped lower. $3.49 at 9:44, then $3.22 at 9:45 and $3.08 at 9:47.
- The whole move was gone by the afternoon. At 3:59 p.m. it traded at $1.99, 43% under the high and under the previous close.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for NMTC published between the previous session's close and the first minute NMTC traded 20% above it, at 9:31 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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CURRENT REPORT
How it traded
Intraday run. It opened up 6.4% at 2.16, then ran from the open to the high of 3.49 in 14 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:01 a.m. | Pre-market high, 2.35 | |
| 9:05 a.m. | SEC filing 8-K: CURRENT REPORT | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 2.16, up 6.4% from the previous close | |
| 9:31 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.03 | |
| 9:34 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:44 a.m. | |
| 9:44 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 3.49 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 1.99, 43.0% 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 25 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 9:05 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 25,563 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 3.70 million in the first 30 minutes (61%), and 2.38 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (39%).
- The halt at 9:34 a.m.: up 43.6% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.48, up 10.1% from the last trade before it, then down 17.5% over the next 5 minutes.
- In our recaps, this is the only day NMTC met the small-cap rule.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:34 a.m. | 9:44 a.m. | 10 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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