Tilray Inc. TLRY, +38.12% shares were halted five times in a span of less than an hour as Wednesday's trading session neared a close, with shares zooming between brief small losses and incredibly large gains. Tilray stock was flying high Wednesday, hitting an intraday record high of $300 a share -- a daily gain of 94% that added to a an increase of more than 400% in the past month. However, when shares were halted for a fourth time in less than 40 minutes at 3:33 p.m. Eastern time, they were trading at $168.33, a daily gain of just 8.6%. When they resumed trading at 3:43 p.m. Eastern, shares clawed back to gains of 40% before being halted with about 10 minutes to go in the session. Shares were allowed to begin trading yet again at almost the exact moment the market closed, and recorded a final price in the regular session of $214.06, up 38.1% on the day. The cannabis producer went public in July at $17 a share, and traded in a range from $151.40 to $300 Wednesday after closing at $154.98 Tuesday. In the first few minutes of after-hours trading, shares dropped more than 10%.
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