Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 3, 2026
FUSE, August 3: a quiet open, one halt, $1.84, and a wall at $1.40
FUSE opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.84 through one halt during the session.
What happened
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A quiet stock wakes up
No news came out, yet FUSE ran. It closed July 31 at $0.784 and barely moved for the first hour. Then the 10:31 minute traded 164K shares and ran to $1.29.
It was halted at 10:32:20. It reopened at 10:37:20 nearly flat, with one 80K-share trade at $1.29.
The top at $1.84
The real run came after the halt. By 10:48 it hit $1.84, 135% over the prior close.
It made a lower high of $1.75 at 10:52. Then it slid to $1.35 in the 10:57 minute.
The wall at $1.40
Later that morning, a big block of shares for sale sat at $1.40. It peaked at 63K shares at 11:31 while the stock traded below it.
Stop It's 11:36. FUSE is at $1.33. About 62,950 shares were offered at $1.40 at the wall's peak, and it is still sitting just above. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:33 a.m. and stop at 11:36 a.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate it. 52K shares traded at $1.40 in 3.6 seconds, and the wall was gone at 11:36:46. The push stalled at $1.43, and the stock was back to $1.36 by 11:38.
It closed at $1.31, on 19.9M shares, about twice the float.
What to take from it: A wall can break fast and the price can still stall.
Replay FUSE's day
It starts at 10:26 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:29 a.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
Intraday run. It opened up 8.4% at $0.85, then ran from the open to the high of $1.84 in 78 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:34 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.8499 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.85, up 8.4% from the previous close | |
| 9:50 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.784 | |
| 10:48 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.84 | |
| 11:15 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 10.47 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.31, 28.8% 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
- $0.784
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.85
- Gap at the open
- +8.4%
- Pre-market high
- $0.8499 at 7:34 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.84 at 10:48 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.849
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.31
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +67.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.40 at 5:17 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 19.91 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 602,442
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 898.9×
- Float
- 10.47 million shares, from filings as of August 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 28.94 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,062 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 20.51 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 10.47 million shares: past it once at 11:15 a.m.
- Other days FUSE met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 4, 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:32 a.m. | 10:37 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 28.7% | $1.29, down 0.8% | down 4.7% | 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 FUSE 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.