Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 6, 2026
WLDS, August 6: a run to $5.60
WLDS opened near its previous close, then ran to $5.60 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.94, on 6K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.79. It ran to $5.60 by 1:44 p.m.
The close
It closed at $4.20, 25% under 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 down 3.5% at $2.79, then ran from the open to the high of $5.60 in 254 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:13 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.94 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.79, down 3.5% from the previous close |
| 12:35 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.89 |
| 1:42 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 621,105 shares |
| 1:44 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.60 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.20, 25.0% 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
- $2.89
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.79
- Gap at the open
- −3.5%
- Pre-market high
- $2.94 at 8:13 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.60 at 1:44 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.70
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.20
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +45.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.89 at 5:04 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.19 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 165,250
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.0×
- Float
- 621,105 shares, from filings as of August 6, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 729,823
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 5,896 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 15,045 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 3.33 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 621,105 shares: past it once at 1:42 p.m., twice at 1:46 p.m., three times at 1:53 p.m.
- Other days WLDS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 23, 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 WLDS 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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