Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 14, 2026
SXTC, August 14: a gap that faded
SXTC opened up 40%, then faded below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $6.78, on 8.2M shares.
The open
It opened up 40%, at $4.61.
The close
It closed at $4.34, 36% under its high.
What to take from it: A big gap is not a trend. This one traded below its open by the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and fade. It gapped up 39.7% to $4.61 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $4.34.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.30 |
| 4:05 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 533,976 shares |
| 4:56 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.78 |
| 4:56 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.78 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.61, up 39.7% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.34, 36.0% 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
- $3.30
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.61
- Gap at the open
- +39.7%
- Pre-market high
- $6.78 at 4:56 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.78 at 4:56 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.59
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.34
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +31.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.73 at 6:04 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 9.43 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 120,625
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 17.0×
- Float
- 533,976 shares, from filings as of August 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 533,976
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 8.20 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (86%), 260,286 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 1.09 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (11%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 533,976 shares: past it once at 4:05 a.m., twice at 4:09 a.m., three times at 4:15 a.m.
- Other days SXTC met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on October 7, 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 SXTC 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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