Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 10, 2026
OFAL, August 10: a run to $1.55
OFAL opened down 15%, then ran to $0.9496 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.55, on 3.9M shares.
The open
It opened down 15%, at $0.6101. It ran to $0.9496 by 1:03 p.m.
The close
It closed at $0.7934, 49% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened down 15.0% at $0.6101, then ran from the open to the high of $0.9496 in 213 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:01 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.7175 |
| 5:04 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.55 |
| 5:04 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.55 |
| 5:05 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.38 million shares |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.6101, down 15.0% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.7934, 48.8% 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
- $0.7175
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.6101
- Gap at the open
- −15.0%
- Pre-market high
- $1.55 at 5:04 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.55 at 5:04 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.5419
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.7934
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +10.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $0.873 at 5:26 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.41 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 102,420
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 71.2×
- Float
- 1.38 million shares, from filings as of August 10, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.64 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3.89 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (71%), 68,491 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 1.56 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (28%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.38 million shares: past it once at 5:05 a.m., twice at 5:10 a.m., three times at 11:49 a.m.
- Other days OFAL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on August 25, 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 OFAL 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.
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