Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 7, 2026
CGTL, August 7: a quiet morning, three halts, and $6.39
CGTL opened near its previous close, then ran to $6.39 through three halts during the session.
What happened
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No news, then a run
No news came out, yet a quiet stock ran hard. It opened at $4.08 and broke $5 at 12:50 as volume exploded. The 12:56 minute hit $6.38 on 67K shares.
Halt #1 froze it at 12:57:18 at $6.38. During the halt, an ask wall appeared at $7.00.
Stop It's 1:02. CGTL is about to reopen after a five-minute halt that began with a last trade at $6.38. Shares are offered at $7.00 above. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:59 p.m. and stop at 1:02 p.m. ET for your call.
The first reopen
It reopened at 1:02:18 at $6.25 and traded $6.39 that minute, then closed it at $5.63. Halt #2 hit at 1:02:34, 16 seconds later.
Stop It's 1:22. CGTL is about to reopen after a 20-minute halt that stopped at $5.63. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:19 p.m. and stop at 1:22 p.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at 1:22:35 at $4.31, 23% lower. The first reopen had been the top. The $7 wall grew to 65K shares, never reached. A third halt reopened 5% lower, at $3.79.
Where it ended
It hit a low of $3.42 at 1:41 and closed at $4.04, 37% below the high.
What to take from it: With no news, each reopen gapped lower, and the first one marked the top.
Replay CGTL's day
It starts at 12:41 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 12:44 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 up 3.0% at $4.08, then ran from the open to the high of $6.39 in 212 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:14 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.08 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.08, up 3.0% from the previous close | |
| 11:01 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.96 | |
| 1:02 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.39 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.04, 36.8% 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
- $3.96
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.08
- Gap at the open
- +3.0%
- Pre-market high
- $4.08 at 7:14 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.39 at 1:02 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.42
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.04
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +2.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.07 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 554,185
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 6,058
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 37.5×
- Float
- 1.15 million shares, from filings as of August 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.72 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 54 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 211 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 559,978 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days CGTL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 14, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 (3)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:57 p.m. | 1:02 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 19.3% | $6.25, down 2.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 1:02 p.m. | 1:22 p.m. | 20 min 1 s | down 11.8% | $4.31, down 23.4% | down 7.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:23 p.m. | 1:28 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 29.1% | $3.79, down 5.0% | up 5.5% | 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 CGTL on August 7, 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.