Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 11, 2026
WYHG, August 11: a 4 a.m. spike, a run at the open, and a halt
WYHG opened up 40%, ran to $9.45 through two halts, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
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A gap up before the bell
WYHG ran to $12.70 the day before and closed at $5.72. Pre-market buyers pushed it to $9.08 on 4M shares. It opened at $8.03, 40% above that close.
The first halt
The 9:37 minute broke out. At 9:38:17 a volatility pause froze it at $9.34. It reopened at 9:43:17 with a 30K-share print at $9.34.
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It tagged $9.45, the high of the day, that minute. Then it fell to $8.41 in the same candle.
The second halt
The drop set off a second pause at 9:43:51, at $8.41. It reopened at 9:48:51 lower, at $8.23. A minute later it hit $7.85.
A push to $8.82 at 9:51 stopped under the top. The low was $6.15 at 11:44. It closed at $7.37.
What to take from it: After the top, the reopen came in lower and the screen price was not the fill price.
Replay WYHG's day
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The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 40.4% to $8.03 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $9.45 in 13 minutes through a halt, then gave back 146% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $7.37, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:02 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.72 | |
| 6:25 a.m. | Pre-market high, $9.08 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $8.03, up 40.4% from the previous close | |
| 9:43 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $9.45 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $7.37, 22.0% 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
- $5.72
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $8.03
- Gap at the open
- +40.4%
- Pre-market high
- $9.08 at 6:25 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.45 at 9:43 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.11
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $7.37
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +28.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $7.43 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 6.56 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 77,827
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 3.1×
- Float
- 6.96 million shares, from filings as of August 11, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 12.58 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4.04 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (61%), 1.27 million in the first 30 minutes (19%), and 1.33 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (20%).
- Other days WYHG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on November 3, 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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:38 a.m. | 9:43 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 12.7% | $9.34, unchanged | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 9:43 a.m. | 9:48 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 10.0% | $8.23, down 2.1% | down 1.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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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