Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 6, 2026
AQB, August 6: a slow $1.22 high, then $2.12 after hours
AQB opened near its previous close after an 8-K, then ran to $1.22 during the session.
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What happened
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News, but a quiet morning
The 8:30 a.m. headline on a wider strategic review, adding power infrastructure, barely woke the stock. It closed at $0.9899 the day before. Only 26K shares traded before the bell, and the pre-market high was $1.08.
It opened at $1.04 and cleared $1.08 at 9:43 a.m. It climbed in small steps to $1.20 by 11:03, then slid back to $1.07 by 11:19. By 12:09 it was at $1.20 again.
Back at $1.20
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That minute printed $1.22, the regular-session high, and closed at $1.19. It never got back above $1.20 that session.
It closed at $1.07 on just 142K shares.
The after-hours run
The real move came long after the close. From $1.20 at about 6:26 p.m., it ran hard. The 6:34 minute alone traded 274K shares, from $1.55 to $1.98.
It hit $2.12 at 6:52 p.m., the high of the day. By 7:59 p.m. it had faded to $1.58. After hours traded 5.5M shares, about 1.5 times the float for the whole day.
What to take from it: On AQB the morning news drew little trading, and the big move came after 6:30 p.m.
Replay AQB's day
It starts at 8:31 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 8:34 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 up 5.1% at $1.04, then ran from the open to the high of $1.22 in 183 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 8:02 a.m. | SEC filing 10-Q: 10-Q | |
| 8:30 a.m. | News (Newsfile Corp): AquaBounty Technologies Announces Expansion of Strategic Alternatives Review to Include Power Infrastructure Development Opportunities | |
| 8:34 a.m. | SEC filing 8-K: 8-K | |
| 9:04 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.08 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.04, up 5.1% from the previous close | |
| 10:58 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.9899 | |
| 12:33 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.22 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.07, 12.3% below the high | |
| 7:10 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 3.79 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
- $0.9899
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.04
- Gap at the open
- +5.1%
- Pre-market high
- $1.08 at 9:04 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.22 at 12:33 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.95
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.07
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +8.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.12 at 6:52 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 167,742
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 5.46 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 3.79 million shares, from filings as of August 6, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 5.15 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 2 hours 23 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 8:34 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 25,670 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 41,875 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 5.56 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 3.79 million shares: past it once at 7:10 p.m.
- Other days AQB met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 7, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for AQB 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.
Trade this day
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