Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 20, 2026
FLUX, August 20: the $0.80 wall, a $0.85 high, and $1.13 after hours
FLUX opened near its previous close, then ran to $0.8499 during the session.
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
A slow slide
FLUX drifted lower for most of the day. It opened at $0.75 and fell to $0.67 by 1:40 p.m.
The wall at $0.80
One seller capped the stock at exactly $0.80 from 1:57 p.m. The offer peaked at 99K shares, about 0.6% of the float. By 3:15 the stock was just under $0.80.
Stop It's 3:22. FLUX is at $0.79. An ask wall has stood at exactly $0.80 since 1:57 p.m., and at its biggest it held 98,681 shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:19 p.m. and stop at 3:22 p.m. ET for your call.
A 22K-share buy hit the wall at 3:22:36. At 3:22:37 the wall was gone. There was no breakout. By 3:27 it was back at $0.77.
The close and after hours
The late push topped out at $0.85 at 3:49, and the stock closed at $0.82.
Stop It's 4:02 p.m., after the close. FLUX is at $0.85, up from $0.82 at the close. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:59 p.m. and stop at 4:02 p.m. ET for your call.
That minute it ran to $1.13, the day's high, on 171K shares. The earnings report came at 4:05 p.m., three minutes later. By 7:59 p.m. it traded $0.62, 45% below the high.
What to take from it: A pulled wall is not a breakout, and an after-hours spike can fully reverse within hours.
Replay FLUX's day
It starts at 3:44 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 3:47 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 5.7% at $0.75, then ran from the open to the high of $0.8499 in 379 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:29 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.761 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.75, up 5.7% from the previous close | |
| 3:49 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $0.8499 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.8247, 3.0% below the high | |
| 4:02 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.7098 |
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
- $0.7098
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.75
- Gap at the open
- +5.7%
- Pre-market high
- $0.761 at 9:29 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.8499 at 3:49 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.672
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.8247
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +16.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.13 at 4:02 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 658,747
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.75 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 122.1×
- Float
- 17.12 million shares, from filings as of August 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 21.36 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 8,510 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 12,889 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 5.38 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day FLUX met the small-cap rule.
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 FLUX 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 FLUX on August 20, 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.