Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 5, 2026
YXT, August 5: 30 halts and $32.14
YXT more than doubled at the open, ran to $32.14 through 30 halts, then gave back some of the run by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $11.79, on 19M shares.
The open
It more than doubled at the open, at $7.37. It ran to $32.14 by 3:21 p.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it 30 times, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:50 p.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 10:53 a.m.: 20% above the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $23.93, 26% under its high.
What to take from it: The high came early. Most of the run was gone by the close, so the move was in the morning, not the hold.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 130.3% to $7.37 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $32.14 in 351 minutes through 27 halts, then gave back 33% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $23.93, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:54 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.20 |
| 8:10 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 3.02 million shares |
| 8:19 a.m. | Pre-market high, $11.79 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $7.37, up 130.3% from the previous close |
| 3:21 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $32.14 |
| 3:50 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $23.93, 25.5% 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
- $3.20
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $7.37
- Gap at the open
- +130.3%
- Pre-market high
- $11.79 at 8:19 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $32.14 at 3:21 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.91
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $23.93
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +647.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $26.24 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 30.60 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.93 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 3.02 million shares, from filings as of August 5, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 5.95 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 19.09 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (59%), 1.36 million in the first 30 minutes (4%), and 12.08 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (37%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 3.02 million shares: past it once at 8:10 a.m., twice at 8:17 a.m., three times at 8:24 a.m.
- Other days YXT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 13, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, 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 (30)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 a.m. | 9:35 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 0.1% | $7.80, down 6.0% | down 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:36 a.m. | 9:46 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 15.4% | $6.51, down 7.3% | up 3.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:54 a.m. | 9:59 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 8.0% | $6.93, down 8.1% | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:00 a.m. | 10:05 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 1.1% | $7.92, up 3.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:05 a.m. | 10:15 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 6.4% | $6.66, down 6.6% | down 10.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:16 a.m. | 10:21 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 16.0% | $6.02, up 0.5% | up 13.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:24 a.m. | 10:29 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 14.4% | $6.85, unchanged | up 13.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:33 a.m. | 10:38 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 13.3% | $8.00, up 3.1% | up 22.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:43 a.m. | 10:53 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 16.1% | $11.00, up 12.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:53 a.m. | 11:12 a.m. | 18 min 38 s | up 23.5% | $14.50, up 19.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:12 a.m. | 11:29 a.m. | 17 min 30 s | up 31.8% | $18.99, up 19.1% | down 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 11:30 a.m. | 11:43 a.m. | 13 min 18 s | up 7.1% | $14.60, down 14.6% | down 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 11:44 a.m. | 11:54 a.m. | 10 min 1 s | down 23.1% | $11.50, down 12.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:54 a.m. | 11:59 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 3.7% | $11.00, down 13.0% | up 15.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:01 p.m. | 12:06 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 0.6% | $12.74, up 0.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:06 p.m. | 12:11 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 10.1% | $14.00, down 0.1% | down 2.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:18 p.m. | 12:23 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 6.9% | $12.50, up 0.3% | up 5.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:32 p.m. | 12:42 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 18.8% | $17.00, up 8.7% | down 9.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:53 p.m. | 12:58 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 7.7% | $14.00, down 2.2% | down 0.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:00 p.m. | 2:10 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 10.5% | $16.00, up 3.4% | up 14.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:12 p.m. | 2:22 p.m. | 10 min 17 s | up 17.9% | $20.91, up 14.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:22 p.m. | 2:27 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 3.2% | $18.76, down 0.3% | down 1.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:37 p.m. | 2:47 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 15.5% | $23.81, up 7.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:47 p.m. | 2:57 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 3.6% | $19.60, down 8.5% | up 15.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:00 p.m. | 3:10 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 5.9% | $24.94, up 9.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 3:10 p.m. | 3:15 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 22.6% | $29.21, up 5.0% | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:16 p.m. | 3:21 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 15.5% | $30.99, down 3.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 3:21 p.m. | 3:31 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 13.2% | $25.50, down 8.6% | up 13.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:42 p.m. | 3:47 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 8.1% | $26.21, up 3.6% | down 8.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:50 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | 9 min 5 s | down 5.5% | $23.43, down 2.1% | down 9.1% | 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.
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