Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 12, 2026
BOXL, August 12: five quiet hours, the $6.00 wall, and $9.89
BOXL opened up 57% after news, ran to $9.89, then gave back some of the run by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
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News overnight, walls by day
Boxlight announced a private placement after the August 11 close of $2.93. It opened at $4.60 and faded to $4.28 by 11:07. All morning, sellers showed 47,774 shares at $6.00, about 7% of the float. A second wall sat at $5.50.
The walls break
Stop It's 2:39. BOXL is at $5.14. It has spent most of the afternoon between $4.55 and $5.19. Sellers have been showing stock at $5.50 and at $6.00 since the morning. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:36 p.m. and stop at 2:39 p.m. ET for your call.
The $5.10 wall was pulled at 2:38:40. At 2:39:43, buy orders tore through $5.50 and $6.00. Both walls were gone in about a second. That minute ran from $5.14 to $6.12.
By 3:12 it reached $8.37.
The afternoon climb
Stop It's 3:29. BOXL is at $8.54. Three minutes ago it was at $7.81, and it has climbed from $5.14 at 2:39. Would you chase it here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:26 p.m. and stop at 3:29 p.m. ET for your call.
It hit $9.89 at 3:31, the high of the day. Then it fell to $7.63 by 3:39. It closed at $7.92, up 170%.
What to take from it: A wall that held for hours broke in a second, and chasing the move cost more than the screen showed.
Replay BOXL's day
It starts at 2:27 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 2:30 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
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 57.0% to $4.60 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $9.89 in 361 minutes, then gave back 37% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $7.92, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 5:40 p.m. | News (Business Wire): Boxlight Corporation Announces Initial Closing of Private Placement | |
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.93 | |
| 4:05 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 663,210 shares | |
| 5:05 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.80 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.60, up 57.0% from the previous close | |
| 3:31 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $9.89 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $7.92, 19.9% 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
- $2.93
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.60
- Gap at the open
- +57.0%
- Pre-market high
- $6.80 at 5:05 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.89 at 3:31 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.10
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $7.92
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +170.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $8.40 at 4:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 24.82 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.79 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 174.2×
- Float
- 663,210 shares, from filings as of August 12, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 667,057
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 10 hours 20 minutes after the latest news item before it (Business Wire, Aug 11, 5:40 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 10.52 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (38%), 3.12 million in the first 30 minutes (11%), and 13.98 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (51%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 663,210 shares: past it once at 4:05 a.m., twice at 4:11 a.m., three times at 4:16 a.m.
- Other days BOXL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 14, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for BOXL 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
Replay BOXL on August 12, 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.