Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 27, 2026
XAIR on August 27, 2026: why it ran
On August 27, 2026, XAIR opened down 0.6% from the previous close of 4.97 and reached 5.47 at 3:56 p.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.
- Previous close
- 4.97
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 4.94
- Gap at the open
- down 0.6%
- Pre-market high
- 4.96 at 7:17 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.47 at 3:56 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.99
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 6.95 at 4:00 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 5.47
- Volume
- 708,837
- Relative volume
- 20.5x
- Float
- 904,175 shares, from filings as of August 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 984,407
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for XAIR published between the previous session's close and the first minute XAIR traded 20% above it, at 4:00 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 0.6% at 4.94, then ran from the open to the high of 5.47 in 386 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:17 a.m. | Pre-market high, 4.96 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 4.94, down 0.6% from the previous close |
| 3:56 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 5.47 |
| 3:57 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 5.47, 0.0% below the high |
| 3:57 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 4:00 p.m. |
| 4:00 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 4.97 |
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: 1,185 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 15,254 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 692,398 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- The halt at 3:57 p.m.: up 13.3% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 5.70, up 4.2% from the last trade before it, then down 3.3% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days XAIR met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 31, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3:57 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | 2 min 59 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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