Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 26, 2026
WSHP, August 26: five ask walls, one halt, and $7.91
WSHP opened near its previous close, then ran to $7.91 through one halt during the session.
What happened
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A sleepy open
WSHP was a thin stock with no news, and the float is just 4.1M shares. It opened at $4.73 and barely traded for over an hour.
Then it woke up. It ran to $5.76 by 11:17 and tagged $7.00 at 11:35. Ask walls sat above, and at 11:48 a new wall appeared at $7.74.
Stop It's 12:07. WSHP is at $6.73, up from $4.74 an hour and a quarter ago. A big pile of shares has been offered at $7.74 since 11:48. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:04 p.m. and stop at 12:07 p.m. ET for your call.
The wall moved up
The $7.74 wall did not hold the price down. At 12:07:36 the wall was pulled. A new 25K wall showed up at $8.15 that same second. The minute closed at $7.35.
At 12:08:08 a volatility pause halted it at $7.35.
Stop It's 12:13. WSHP has been halted since 12:08, with the last trade at $7.35. Trading is about to resume. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:10 p.m. and stop at 12:13 p.m. ET for your call.
Reopen, top, fade
The first trade printed at $7.20, then it ran to $7.87 that minute.
It hit $7.91 at 12:16, then a sell sweep knocked it to $6.77 within a minute. It closed at $6.16, 22% below the high.
What to take from it: On this day a wall on the book was not a ceiling; it was pulled and reset higher in the same second.
Replay WSHP's day
It starts at 11:15 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 11:18 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
Intraday run. It opened up 0.9% at $4.73, then ran from the open to the high of $7.91 in 166 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:59 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.76 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.73, up 0.9% from the previous close | |
| 11:16 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.69 | |
| 12:16 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $7.91 | |
| 12:37 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 4.14 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $6.16, 22.1% 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
- $4.69
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.73
- Gap at the open
- +0.9%
- Pre-market high
- $4.76 at 4:59 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.91 at 12:16 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.69
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $6.16
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +31.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.77 at 5:15 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.37 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 128,895
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 200.6×
- Float
- 4.14 million shares, from filings as of August 26, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 11.51 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 113 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 9 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 5.50 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 4.14 million shares: past it once at 12:37 p.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day WSHP met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:08 p.m. | 12:13 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 10.5% | $7.35, unchanged | down 5.7% | 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.
Trade this day
Replay WSHP on August 26, 2026 in Hindsight Markets: the real tape, the order book and the halts, on a clock you control, and see where your orders would have filled.