Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 6, 2026
AZI, August 6: a halt at $2.08, a $2.58 top, and a bid wall that broke
AZI opened up 22%, ran to $2.58 through one halt, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
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Halt at $2.08
With no headline in the data, AZI ran from a $1.23 open to $2.08 and was halted at 10:08:08.
Stop It's 10:13. AZI has been halted since 10:08, with the last trade at $2.08. When the halt hit, a bid of about 162,000 shares was sitting at $2.08, more than 85% of the float. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:10 a.m. and stop at 10:13 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at 10:13:08 at $2.10. Within seconds, sellers ate the $2.08 wall. Then it turned and ran to $2.54.
A new bid at $2.00
Here the bids kept moving. A $1.75 bid was pulled at 10:24:25 as a new one built at $2.00.
Stop It's 10:25. AZI is at $2.20, below the $2.54 it hit at 10:14. A large bid wall has built at $2.00. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:22 a.m. and stop at 10:25 a.m. ET for your call.
It spiked to $2.58. The $2.00 bid was eaten at 10:31:37, and it fell to $1.78.
The $1.76 bid
One more big bid appeared, at $1.76, at 10:42:14.
Stop It's 10:45. AZI is at $1.79, down from $2.58 at 10:25. A very large bid, about 56% of the float at its peak, has been sitting at $1.76 since 10:42. Would you buy near it?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:42 a.m. and stop at 10:45 a.m. ET for your call.
Sellers ate it in 21.5 seconds. It closed near $1.60.
What to take from it: On AZI, every big bid under the price was eaten or pulled.
Replay AZI's day
It starts at 9:56 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:59 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 21.8% to $1.23 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $2.58 in 55 minutes through a halt, then gave back 73% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.59, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.01 | |
| 6:37 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.34 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.23, up 21.8% from the previous close | |
| 10:25 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.58 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.59, 38.2% 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
- $1.01
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.23
- Gap at the open
- +21.8%
- Pre-market high
- $1.34 at 6:37 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.58 at 10:25 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.05
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.59
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +57.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.68 at 5:33 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 23.09 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 362,998
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 203.4×
- Float
- not available
- Shares outstanding
- not available
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.60 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (7%), 2.77 million in the first 30 minutes (12%), and 19.07 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (81%).
- Other days AZI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 19, 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:08 a.m. | 10:13 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 40.5% | $2.10, up 1.0% | up 1.4% | 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
Replay AZI on August 6, 2026 in Hindsight Markets: the real tape, the order book and the halts, on a clock you control, and see where your orders would have filled.