Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 19, 2026
NAKA, August 19: a run to $6.10
NAKA opened near its previous close, then ran to $6.10 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $5.05, on 47 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $5.04. It ran to $6.10 by 1:49 p.m.
The close
It closed at $6.05, near 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 up 0.6% at $5.04, then ran from the open to the high of $6.10 in 259 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.05 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.04, up 0.6% from the previous close |
| 1:49 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.01 |
| 1:49 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.10 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $6.05, 0.8% 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
- $5.01
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.04
- Gap at the open
- +0.6%
- Pre-market high
- $5.05 at 9:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.10 at 1:49 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.81
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $6.05
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +20.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.14 at 6:24 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 317,711
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 11,412
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 5.1×
- Float
- 13.31 million shares, from filings as of August 19, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 17.89 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 47 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 25,742 in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 303,334 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (92%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day NAKA met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 NAKA 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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