Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 3, 2026
CYCU, August 3: a run to $1.34
CYCU opened up 22%, ran to $1.19, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.34, on 9.6M shares.
The open
It opened up 22%, at $1.08. It ran to $1.19 by 9:36 a.m.
The close
It closed at $0.9149, 32% under its high.
What to take from it: The whole move was given back: it finished below the price it opened at.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 21.6% to $1.08 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.19 in 6 minutes, then gave back 250% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $0.9149, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.8881 |
| 7:23 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.34 |
| 7:23 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.34 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.08, up 21.6% from the previous close |
| 9:35 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 10.94 million shares |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.9149, 31.7% below the high |
The shape's name comes from a fixed rule, not a judgement (how shapes are named). Halts are in the halt table below.
The day in numbers
- Previous close
- $0.8881
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.08
- Gap at the open
- +21.6%
- Pre-market high
- $1.34 at 7:23 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.34 at 7:23 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.8601
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.9149
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +3.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.10 at 5:51 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 18.67 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.59 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 1.3×
- Float
- 10.94 million shares, from filings as of August 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 11.47 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 9.61 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (47%), 3.30 million in the first 30 minutes (16%), and 7.35 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (36%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 10.94 million shares: past it once at 9:35 a.m.
- Other days CYCU met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 2, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it was in play on the intraday runners: up 30% or more on $3 million or more really traded, outside the small-cap rule's price, relative volume or float, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for CYCU that day.
Halt bands that day: the LULD plan's Amendment 18 rules (what that means, LULD calculator).
How we read the data, name a day's shape and pick the stocks: methodology.
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