Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 27, 2026
LGPS, August 27: an 8:00 headline, a $1.50 wall, and $1.60
LGPS opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $1.60 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
Morning news, then quiet
The 8:00 a.m. deal headline woke the stock up. It ran from $0.94 to $1.54 by 8:04, then fell to $0.86 by 8:15. By 8:10, more shares had traded than the 6.4M float.
It opened at $0.87 and drifted in a narrow band until 3 p.m.
The $1.40 wall
The 3 p.m. run climbed toward a 77K-share ask wall at $1.40.
Stop It's 3:14. LGPS is at $1.31. A big ask wall has been sitting at $1.40 since 3:04. The stock is up from $0.95 in 15 minutes. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:11 p.m. and stop at 3:14 p.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate the wall in 16.9 seconds. It was gone at 3:15:07. The break did not hold. A minute later the stock fell to $1.23.
The $1.50 wall
From $1.18 at 3:42, it climbed back toward a 50K-share ask wall at $1.50.
Stop It's 3:46. LGPS is at $1.49, up from $1.18 four minutes ago. The ask wall at $1.50 has been on the book since 3:14. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:43 p.m. and stop at 3:46 p.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate this wall in 14.2 seconds. It was gone at 3:46:19. The stock hit its $1.60 high that same minute.
Later pushes stopped lower, at $1.57 and then $1.55. It closed at $1.52, up 77%.
What to take from it: Both walls broke in seconds, but only the second break led to the high.
Replay LGPS's day
It starts at 2:52 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 2:55 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 1.4% at $0.8723, then ran from the open to the high of $1.60 in 376 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. | News (Business Wire): LogProstyle Inc. Enters into Agreement to Acquire 100% of I-FLATZ Corporation | |
| 8:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.86 | |
| 8:04 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.54 | |
| 8:10 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 6.36 million shares | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.8723, up 1.4% from the previous close | |
| 3:46 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.60 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.52, 5.0% 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
- $0.86
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.8723
- Gap at the open
- +1.4%
- Pre-market high
- $1.54 at 8:04 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.60 at 3:46 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.7711
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.52
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +76.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.60 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 15.96 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.08 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 1105.2×
- Float
- 6.36 million shares, from filings as of August 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 23.61 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (Business Wire, 8:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 9.11 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (48%), 200,587 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 9.73 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (51%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 6.36 million shares: past it once at 8:10 a.m., twice at 3:22 p.m.
- Other days LGPS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 31, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for LGPS 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 LGPS on August 27, 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.