Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 3, 2026
BTOG, September 3: news and a pre-market spike to $3.29
BTOG spiked to $3.29 before the open after news, then gave much of it back in the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 9:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $3.29, on 766K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.23.
The close
It closed at $2.18, 34% under its high.
What to take from it: The move happened before the bell. The regular session never got back to the pre-market high.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Pre-market spike. Before the open it spiked 41.8% from $2.32 to $3.29 at 9:06 a.m.. It opened down 3.9% at $2.23 and traded at $2.18 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Bit Origin Rebrands to SANGRIX as Part of AI Infrastructure Transition |
| 9:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.32 |
| 9:01 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 11,270 shares |
| 9:06 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.29 |
| 9:06 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.29 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.23, down 3.9% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.18, 33.7% 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
- $2.32
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.23
- Gap at the open
- −3.9%
- Pre-market high
- $3.29 at 9:06 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.29 at 9:06 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.08
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.18
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −6.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.40 at 7:58 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 937,843
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 21,998
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.2×
- Float
- 11,270 shares, from filings as of September 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 11,270
- 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 (GlobeNewsWire, 9:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 765,840 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (80%), 32,061 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 161,940 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (17%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 11,270 shares: past it once at 9:01 a.m., twice at 9:01 a.m., three times at 9:01 a.m.
- Other days BTOG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 21, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners, after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 BTOG 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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