Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 4, 2026
ZTG, August 4: three halts and $6.02
ZTG opened near its previous close, then ran to $6.02 through three halts during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $5.20, on 14K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $5.05. It ran to $6.02 by 12:41 p.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it three times, from 1:10 p.m. to 1:34 p.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 1:34 p.m.: 16% above the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $5.52, 8% under 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 up 1.8% at $5.05, then ran from the open to the high of $6.02 in 191 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:45 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.20 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.05, up 1.8% from the previous close |
| 12:41 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.96 |
| 12:41 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.02 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.52, 8.3% 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
- $4.96
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.05
- Gap at the open
- +1.8%
- Pre-market high
- $5.20 at 7:45 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.02 at 12:41 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.60
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.52
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +11.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.68 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.07 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 20,940
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.5×
- Float
- 4.07 million shares, from filings as of August 4, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 11.58 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 13,818 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 120,217 in the first 30 minutes (11%), and 953,413 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (88%).
- Other days ZTG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 10, the latest on October 16, 2026.
- The next session, August 5, 2026, it was up 19.0% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
On the day's lists: the gainers. 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 (3)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:10 p.m. | 1:22 p.m. | 12 min 9 s | down 8.5% | $4.37, down 1.4% | down 12.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:27 p.m. | 1:32 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.3% | $3.74, down 2.6% | up 7.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:34 p.m. | 1:44 p.m. | 10 min 1 s | up 4.7% | $4.65, up 15.7% | up 7.7% | 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.
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