Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 21, 2026
NCTY, August 21: a run to $5.80
NCTY opened near its previous close, then ran to $5.80 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $5.62, on 158K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $4.58. It ran to $5.80 by 3:44 p.m.
The close
It closed at $5.71, 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 5.0% at $4.58, then ran from the open to the high of $5.80 in 374 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:19 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.36 |
| 5:20 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.62 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.58, up 5.0% from the previous close |
| 3:44 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.80 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.71, 1.5% 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
- $4.36
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.58
- Gap at the open
- +5.0%
- Pre-market high
- $5.62 at 5:20 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.80 at 3:44 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.00
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.71
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +31.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.90 at 4:42 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 455,976
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 18,103
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 3.2×
- Float
- 11.87 million shares, from filings as of August 21, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 15.27 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 157,826 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (33%), 48,310 in the first 30 minutes (10%), and 267,943 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (57%).
- Other days NCTY met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 24, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers. 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 NCTY 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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