Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 19, 2026
BTCT, August 19: five halts, $1.32, and $2.14 after hours
BTCT opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.32 through five halts during the session.
What happened
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Quiet, then a run
No news showed for BTCT. It sat near $0.48 until 2:53 p.m., then ran to $0.91 and was halted.
Halt #2 hit at 3:03:58, one second after a 296K-share bid at $1.15 peaked.
Stop It's 3:09. BTCT is at $1.08. It reopened from its second halt at $1.17 two seconds ago, and the nearly 300,000-share bid at $1.15 was hit and gone within a second. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:06 p.m. and stop at 3:09 p.m. ET for your call.
After the second reopen
Losing the bid did not stop it. That minute hit $1.32, then closed at $1.18. Three more halts followed.
The $0.90 bid
Late in the day a bid at $0.90 grew to 137K shares.
Stop It's 3:48. BTCT is at $0.92. A bid at $0.90, just below, peaked at 136,581 shares at 3:45. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:45 p.m. and stop at 3:48 p.m. ET for your call.
It broke. At 3:48:52, 103K shares hit it in half a second. BTCT closed at $0.82.
After hours
The biggest run came after the bell. It hit $2.14 in the 6:24 p.m. minute.
What to take from it: A big bid is not a floor: the $1.15 and $0.90 bids were both eaten in under a second.
Replay BTCT's day
It starts at 2:45 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 2:48 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 3.2% at $0.48, then ran from the open to the high of $1.32 in 339 minutes through two halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:05 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.48 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.48, up 3.2% from the previous close | |
| 12:56 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.4649 | |
| 3:09 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.32 | |
| 3:28 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 11.79 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.8239, 37.6% 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
- $0.4649
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.48
- Gap at the open
- +3.2%
- Pre-market high
- $0.48 at 9:05 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.32 at 3:09 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.4561
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.8239
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +77.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.14 at 6:24 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 15.57 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 32.75 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 466.2×
- Float
- 11.79 million shares, from filings as of August 19, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 11.80 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1,295 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 5,804 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 48.31 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 11.79 million shares: past it once at 3:28 p.m., twice at 4:32 p.m., three times at 5:22 p.m.
- Other days BTCT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on September 18, 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 (5)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:58 p.m. | 3:03 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 31.0% | $1.00, up 9.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 3:03 p.m. | 3:08 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 26.4% | $1.17, up 1.7% | down 0.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 3:16 p.m. | 3:21 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 11.8% | $0.9516, down 9.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 3:21 p.m. | 3:26 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 4.8% | $1.20, up 9.1% | down 9.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 3:33 p.m. | 3:38 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.6% | $1.00, up 5.3% | down 9.2% | 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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