Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 6, 2026
LBGJ, August 6: a 6,166-share float, 11 halts, and $7.67
LBGJ opened near its previous close, then ran to $7.67 through eleven halts during the session.
What happened
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A tiny float
LBGJ's float was only 6,166 shares. It opened at $3.50 and stayed quiet until noon.
Halts up through $5
The ramp came in halts, the first at 12:36:01. At 12:58:53 it reopened at $5.59, and that minute touched $6.00.
Stop It's 1:00. LBGJ is at $5.85. It reopened from a halt at $5.59 about a minute ago and touched $6.00 a minute ago. A wall of ask orders sits at $6.43. It has shown as many as 25,700 shares, about 417% of the float. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:57 p.m. and stop at 1:00 p.m. ET for your call.
It slid to $4.96 and was halted at 1:01:41. The $6.43 wall was pulled one second later.
Thin reopens
At 1:27:19 it reopened at $6.97, and that minute hit $7.67.
It pushed to $7.37, then was halted at 1:30:20.
Stop It's 1:36. LBGJ is at $6.58, a minute after reopening from a halt at $6.24. The high so far is $7.67. A bid wall has just shown up at $4.85, far below the price. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:33 p.m. and stop at 1:36 p.m. ET for your call.
It topped at $7.24, another lower high. By 1:38 it touched $6.10, and the $4.85 wall was pulled at 1:39:03. It closed at $4.08, 47% below the high.
What to take from it: After $7.67, each push stopped lower: $7.37, then $7.24.
Replay LBGJ's day
It starts at 12:57 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 1:00 p.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 down 1.1% at $3.50, then ran from the open to the high of $7.67 in 237 minutes through 7 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 8:25 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.73 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.50, down 1.1% from the previous close | |
| 12:35 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.54 | |
| 1:27 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $7.67 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.08, 46.8% 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
- $3.54
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.50
- Gap at the open
- −1.1%
- Pre-market high
- $3.73 at 8:25 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.67 at 1:27 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.32
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.08
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +15.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.12 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.41 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 125,003
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 10.2×
- Float
- not available
- Shares outstanding
- not available
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 73,074 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 10,202 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 3.45 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- Other days LBGJ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on November 3, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 (11)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:36 p.m. | 12:41 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 12.0% | $3.96, down 13.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 12:41 p.m. | 12:46 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 4.8% | $4.33, down 0.7% | up 8.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:48 p.m. | 12:53 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 8.0% | $4.84, up 2.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 12:53 p.m. | 12:58 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 13.0% | $5.59, up 5.1% | down 11.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:01 p.m. | 1:06 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 6.8% | $4.71, down 5.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 1:06 p.m. | 1:16 p.m. | 10 min 1 s | up 4.4% | $5.82, up 12.4% | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:17 p.m. | 1:27 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 23.6% | $6.97, up 8.9% | down 10.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:30 p.m. | 1:35 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 2.5% | $6.24, unchanged | down 1.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:43 p.m. | 1:48 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 6.4% | $5.70, down 0.5% | down 15.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:50 p.m. | 1:55 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 15.9% | $4.94, up 2.5% | down 9.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:57 p.m. | 2:02 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 6.8% | $4.61, up 2.7% | down 11.9% | 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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