Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 28, 2026
FTFT on August 28, 2026: why it ran
On August 28, 2026, FTFT opened up 3.2% from the previous close of 0.5816 and reached 0.6098 at 11:44 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.
- Previous close
- 0.5816
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 0.6000
- Gap at the open
- up 3.2%
- Pre-market high
- 0.6003 at 5:25 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.6098 at 11:44 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.5500
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.60 at 4:31 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 0.5547
- Volume
- 29.21 million
- Relative volume
- 167.7x
- Float
- 31.66 million shares, from filings as of August 28, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 32.25 million
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for FTFT published between the previous session's close and the first minute FTFT traded 20% above it, at 4:03 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:25 a.m. | Pre-market high, 0.6003 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 0.6000, up 3.2% from the previous close |
| 11:44 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 0.6098 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 0.5547, 9.0% below the high |
| 4:03 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 0.5816 |
| 7:50 p.m. | Halted: News pending |
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: 8,032 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 17,733 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 29.18 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- The halt at 7:50 p.m.: down 3.4% in the 5 minutes into it.
- Other days FTFT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on September 23, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:50 p.m. | did not resume that day | 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.
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