Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 3, 2026
MKZR, August 3: a run to $1.29
MKZR opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.29 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.28, on 4K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $0.99. It ran to $1.29 by 12:48 p.m.
The close
It closed at $1.24, near its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened down 3.9% at $0.99, then ran from the open to the high of $1.29 in 198 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:49 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.03 |
| 6:49 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.28 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.99, down 3.9% from the previous close |
| 12:48 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.29 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.24, 3.9% 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
- $1.03
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.99
- Gap at the open
- −3.9%
- Pre-market high
- $1.28 at 6:49 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.29 at 12:48 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.90
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.24
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +20.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.20 at 6:59 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 30,065
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.14 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 102.3×
- Float
- 2.23 million shares, from filings as of August 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.26 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4,432 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 2,259 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 1.16 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day MKZR met the small-cap rule.
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 MKZR 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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