Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 3, 2026
STKH, August 3: one halt, $4.75, and a bid at $3.16
STKH opened near its previous close, then ran to $4.75 through one halt during the session.
What happened
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The run into the halt
It opened at $2.38, just under the $2.40 close, and crossed $3.00 at 9:55.
It was halted at 9:56:54 at $3.56. It reopened at 10:01:54 at $3.57.
Two minutes after the reopen
Stop It's 10:04. STKH is at $3.99, up from a $2.40 close, after a halt reopen two minutes ago. The float has already traded once. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:01 a.m. and stop at 10:04 a.m. ET for your call.
Here's what happened. Three buy orders swept the book, and it closed the minute at $4.69. The high was $4.75 in the 10:05 minute. Within four minutes it was back at $3.32.
The bid at $3.16
At 10:09:46 a new bid appeared at $3.16. It peaked at 44K shares, about 9% of the float.
Stop It's 10:23. STKH is at $3.21. Below it, a bid for tens of thousands of shares has sat at $3.16 for about 13 minutes, and the stock has not traded below it. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:20 a.m. and stop at 10:23 a.m. ET for your call.
Here's what happened. About 18K shares traded at $3.16 in 16.5 seconds, and the bid was gone at 10:23:28. Two minutes later it hit $2.88.
It fell to $2.58 at 11:27 and closed at $2.74.
What to take from it: A big bid is not a floor: the 44K-share bid at $3.16 was eaten in 16.5 seconds.
Replay STKH's day
It starts at 9:46 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:49 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 down 0.8% at $2.38, then ran from the open to the high of $4.75 in 35 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.55 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.38, down 0.8% from the previous close | |
| 9:52 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.40 | |
| 10:03 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 501,809 shares | |
| 10:05 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.75 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.74, 42.3% 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
- $2.40
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.38
- Gap at the open
- −0.8%
- Pre-market high
- $2.55 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.75 at 10:05 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.31
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.74
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +14.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.91 at 4:41 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.78 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 34,700
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 1.9×
- Float
- 501,809 shares, from filings as of August 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 591,689
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 24,551 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 74,464 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 2.72 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (96%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 501,809 shares: past it once at 10:03 a.m., twice at 10:05 a.m., three times at 10:08 a.m.
- Other days STKH met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 1, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:56 a.m. | 10:01 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 30.9% | $3.57, up 0.3% | up 20.4% | 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 STKH 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.