Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 21, 2026
JUNS, August 21: the $9.00 wall, three halts, and $11.20
JUNS opened up 60%, ran to $11.20 through three halts, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
The $9.00 wall
After an 8:55 headline, JUNS opened at $8.25, up 60%. From 9:39, a seller offered 43K shares at $9.00.
Stop It's 10:01. JUNS is at $8.79. An ask wall at $9.00 has been on the book since 9:39 and peaked at 42,644 shares. The stock just touched $9.00 and was turned back. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:58 a.m. and stop at 10:01 a.m. ET for your call.
The wall left the book at 10:01:11. Only 5,032 shares traded there. A big buy swept to $9.55 that minute.
Halt to the top
Halt #1 at 10:02:37 froze it at $9.65. It reopened 12% higher at 10:12:38 and hit $11.20, the day's high.
The offering
Stop It's 12:20. JUNS is at $8.36. The company has just announced the pricing of a $2.0 million registered direct offering. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:17 p.m. and stop at 12:20 p.m. ET for your call.
Sellers swept the book, and halt #2 hit at 12:20:16 at $7.42. It reopened at $5.50, 26% lower.
Stop It's 12:52. JUNS is at $6.10, after the 12:50 reopen. An ask wall at $6.50 peaked at 53,671 shares at 12:46 and is still on the book. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:49 p.m. and stop at 12:52 p.m. ET for your call.
The wall was pulled at 12:52:38. By 1:31 it was at $5.74, and it closed at $6.18.
What to take from it: A wall that leaves the book was not beaten, and a halt can reopen far lower than it stopped.
Replay JUNS's day
It starts at 7:04 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 7:07 a.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 and fade. It gapped up 60.2% to $8.25 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $11.20 in 42 minutes through a halt, then gave back 168% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $6.23, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:09 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.15 | |
| 7:16 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 588,068 shares | |
| 7:22 a.m. | Pre-market high, $10.21 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $8.25, up 60.2% from the previous close | |
| 10:12 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $11.20 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $6.23, 44.4% 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
- $5.15
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $8.25
- Gap at the open
- +60.2%
- Pre-market high
- $10.21 at 7:22 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $11.20 at 10:12 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.83
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $6.23
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +21.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.78 at 5:36 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 24.12 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 215,937
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 801.1×
- Float
- 588,068 shares, from filings as of August 21, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 770,081
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 12.31 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (51%), 3.19 million in the first 30 minutes (13%), and 8.82 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (36%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 588,068 shares: past it once at 7:16 a.m., twice at 7:21 a.m., three times at 7:22 a.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day JUNS met the small-cap rule.
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 (3)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:02 a.m. | 10:12 a.m. | 10 min 1 s | up 13.5% | $10.77, up 11.6% | down 5.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:20 p.m. | 12:45 p.m. | 25 min 0 s | down 10.4% | $5.50, down 25.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 12:45 p.m. | 12:50 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 18.5% | $6.04, down 0.2% | up 6.0% | 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
Replay JUNS on August 21, 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.