Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026
YYAI, August 17: a 68% spike at 9:01 a.m. and a fade to $1.20
YYAI opened up 26%, then faded below its open by the close.
What happened
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Halt, then a spike
This day began with a halt at 3:04 a.m., no reason given, and it resumed at 9:00. A minute later it hit $1.90, 68% above the $1.13 close.
The next push stopped at $1.75. An ask wall of up to 33K shares sat at $1.85.
Stop It's 9:26. YYAI is at $1.51, four minutes before the open and well under the $1.90 high from 9:01. An ask wall at $1.85 peaked at about 33,000 shares at 9:03. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:23 a.m. and stop at 9:26 a.m. ET for your call.
The wall left
Here the seller's wall left without trading. A 16K-share sell order hit at 9:26:35, and at 9:26:59 the $1.85 wall was pulled. By 9:29 it was $1.43.
Stop It's 9:30. YYAI opens at $1.42, up 26% from the $1.13 previous close and well below the $1.90 it touched at 9:01. Would you buy the open?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:27 a.m. and stop at 9:30 a.m. ET for your call.
A slow fade
The open started a slide. It hit $1.20 at 9:31 and $1.14 at 9:40. A 26K-share bid at $0.90 was pulled at 10:22:22 without trading. It ended the 4:00 minute at $1.23.
What to take from it: The move was over before the open: by 9:30 it was already 48 cents under its high.
Replay YYAI's day
It starts at 8:57 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:00 a.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
Gap and fade. It gapped up 25.7% to $1.42 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $1.20.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:01 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.13 | |
| 9:01 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.90 | |
| 9:01 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.90 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.42, up 25.7% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.20, 36.8% 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
- $1.13
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.42
- Gap at the open
- +25.7%
- Pre-market high
- $1.90 at 9:01 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.90 at 9:01 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.13
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.20
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +6.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.32 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.23 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 209,375
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.8×
- Float
- not available
- Shares outstanding
- not available
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3.98 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (73%), 523,775 in the first 30 minutes (10%), and 941,404 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (17%).
- Other days YYAI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 18, 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:04 a.m. | 9:00 a.m. | 355 min 6 s | $1.23 | up 25.2% | No reason given in the feed |
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
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