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Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 5, 2026

CLRO, August 5: an 8-K and an after-hours run to $8.07

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CLRO barely moved in the regular session after an 8-K, then ran to $8.07 after the close.

8-K$8.07$4.03$3.594 a.m.9:30noon4 p.m.8 p.m.
CLRO on August 5, 2026, one-minute bars, New York time. Bands: halts. Flags: the news or filing before the move. Dotted line: the previous close. Shaded: before the 9:30 a.m. open and after the 4:00 p.m. close.

What happened

Before the open

The news came first: an 8-K at 5:01 p.m. Before the bell it reached $4.03, on 730 shares.

The open

It opened near its previous close, at $4.01.

The close

It closed at $3.63, 13% under its high. After the close it ran to $8.07 by 6:39 p.m.

What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.

The details

How it traded, step by step

After-hours run. It opened down 0.5% at $4.01 and traded at $3.63 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 122.3% from $3.63 to $8.07 at 6:39 p.m. after the close, on 4.65 million shares traded after hours.

Time (ET)What happened
8:53 a.m.Pre-market high, $4.03
9:30 a.m.The open: $4.01, down 0.5% from the previous close
9:32 a.m.High of the day to the close, $4.18
3:59 p.m.Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.63, 13.3% below the high
5:01 p.m.SEC filing 8-K: 8-K
5:29 p.m.First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.03
6:20 p.m.Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.45 million shares

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
$4.03
Open, 9:30 a.m.
$4.01
Gap at the open
−0.5%
Pre-market high
$4.03 at 8:53 a.m.
High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$4.18 at 9:32 a.m.
Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$3.59
Close, 4 p.m.
$3.63
Change at 4 p.m.
−9.9%
After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
$8.07 at 6:39 p.m.
Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
12,964
Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
4.65 million
Relative volume by 8 p.m.
14.1×
Float
2.45 million shares, from filings as of August 5, 2026
Shares outstanding
2.68 million
  • From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 27 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 5:01 p.m.).
  • Volume, from the one-minute bars: 730 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 2,153 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 4.66 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
  • Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.45 million shares: past it once at 6:20 p.m.
  • Other days CLRO met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, the latest on November 2, 2026.
  • The next session, August 6, 2026, it was up 164.7% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.

On the day's lists: the intraday runners, after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: price $2 to $20, up 10% or more, relative volume 5× or more, float under 20 million shares, 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 CLRO 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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