Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 5, 2026
JLHL, August 5: five halts, the $14.00 wall, and $16.14
JLHL opened up 29%, ran to $16.14 through five halts, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
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A quiet open
No news showed for the day. It opened at $7.00, 29% above the $5.42 close.
Stop It's 9:41. JLHL is at $7.46. For the last six minutes it has held between $7.30 and $7.54, with a bid wall at $7.00 below that has been as large as 22,514 shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:38 a.m. and stop at 9:41 a.m. ET for your call.
The run started that minute. It hit $9.07 and was halted at 9:47:38. The $7.00 bid was pulled at 9:53:11.
The $14.00 wall
Stop It's 11:01. JLHL is at $13.68. A wall of up to 25,798 shares has been offered at exactly $14.00 for 13 minutes, and it has been tested twice in the last few minutes. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:58 a.m. and stop at 11:01 a.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate the wall. At 11:01:23 a 45K-share sweep cleared it in under a second. Halt #5 came at 11:01:45, at $14.85.
Stop It's 11:07. JLHL is at $14.82. It reopened from its fifth halt a minute ago at $14.00. A 42,522-share buy sweep just went through to $15.00. Would you chase it here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:04 a.m. and stop at 11:07 a.m. ET for your call.
It dropped to $13.10 that minute, then reached $16.14 at 11:11, the high.
The fade
The top held. It closed at $9.30, 42% below the high.
What to take from it: Halt reopens had thin books, and most of the run was gone by the close.
Replay JLHL's day
It starts at 9:41 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:44 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
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 29.2% to $7.00 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $16.14 in 101 minutes through 5 halts, then gave back 75% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $9.30, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.42 | |
| 4:01 a.m. | Pre-market high, $10.56 | |
| 5:00 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.45 million shares | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $7.00, up 29.2% from the previous close | |
| 11:11 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $16.14 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $9.30, 42.4% 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
- $5.42
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $7.00
- Gap at the open
- +29.2%
- Pre-market high
- $10.56 at 4:01 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $16.14 at 11:11 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.26
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $9.30
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +71.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $9.40 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 16.89 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 303,698
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 5.6×
- Float
- 1.45 million shares, from filings as of August 5, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 21.45 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2.91 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (17%), 1.27 million in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 13.02 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (76%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.45 million shares: past it once at 5:00 a.m., twice at 9:28 a.m., three times at 10:05 a.m.
- Other days JLHL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 13, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 (5)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:47 a.m. | 9:52 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 11.3% | $8.32, down 8.3% | up 17.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:53 a.m. | 9:58 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 7.6% | $9.77, up 0.1% | up 8.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:00 a.m. | 10:05 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 8.5% | $10.59, unchanged | down 4.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:13 a.m. | 10:18 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 15.1% | $13.00, up 5.0% | up 7.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:01 a.m. | 11:06 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 19.4% | $14.00, down 5.7% | up 13.1% | 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
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