Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 3, 2026
FCUV, August 3: $21.00 at 4 a.m., two halts, and back to $11.47
FCUV opened up 35%, ran to $17.90 through two halts, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
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A $21 top at 4 a.m.
FCUV closed July 31 at $11.50. On the 3rd it hit $21.00 in the first minute of pre-market, then sank to $16.54 by 4:08.
A 7:09 push stopped lower, at $20.50. It opened at $15.51.
A wall at $20
The open run peaked at $17.90 at 9:40. At 9:40:39 a big sell order appeared at $20.00.
Stop It's 9:41. FCUV is at $16.75. It opened at $15.51 and traded $17.90 a minute ago, and an ask wall has just appeared at $20.00. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:38 a.m. and stop at 9:41 a.m. ET for your call.
It never got there. It slid to $15.15 and was halted at 9:47:10. It reopened at $15.13 and fell to $13.75 by 9:55.
The afternoon halt
It kept sliding to $9.30 at 2:14 p.m.
Stop It's 2:27 p.m. FCUV is at $9.97, close to the $9.30 low it made at 2:14. It has been trading in a tight range near $9.90 for ten minutes. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:24 p.m. and stop at 2:27 p.m. ET for your call.
It ran to $11.00 and was halted at 2:28:23. It reopened at $11.10.
It closed at $11.47, just under the prior close.
What to take from it: Each push after the $21 top stopped lower, and the halt reopen was thin.
Replay FCUV's day
It starts at 2:11 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 2:14 p.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 34.9% to $15.51 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $17.90 in 10 minutes, then gave back 269% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $11.46, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $11.50 | |
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $21.00 | |
| 4:00 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $21.00 | |
| 4:49 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 601,411 shares | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $15.51, up 34.9% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $11.46, 45.4% 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
- $11.50
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $15.51
- Gap at the open
- +34.9%
- Pre-market high
- $21.00 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $21.00 at 4:00 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.30
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $11.46
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −0.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $11.68 at 4:03 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 6.03 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 79,066
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.5×
- Float
- 601,411 shares, from filings as of August 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 702,811
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2.95 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (48%), 840,180 in the first 30 minutes (14%), and 2.32 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (38%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 601,411 shares: past it once at 4:49 a.m., twice at 6:53 a.m., three times at 7:14 a.m.
- Other days FCUV met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on September 3, 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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:47 a.m. | 9:52 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 9.9% | $15.13, down 0.1% | down 3.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:28 p.m. | 2:33 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 11.4% | $11.10, up 0.9% | up 0.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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.
Trade this day
Replay FCUV on August 3, 2026 in Hindsight Markets: the real tape, the order book and the halts, on a clock you control, and see where your orders would have filled.