Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 16, 2026
YFOR, September 16: the 7:03 spike to $1.95, a pulled wall, and a low at $1.52
YFOR opened up 21% after news and held near that level into the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
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News after the close
The spark came after the bell on September 15. At 4:10 p.m. YYForce reported net assets of $25.2M. YFOR had closed at $1.44.
The next morning it opened pre-market at $1.74, 21% higher.
Stop It's 7:02. YFOR is at $1.75. It was $1.72 at 6:52 and the previous close was $1.44. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 6:59 a.m. and stop at 7:02 a.m. ET for your call.
The next minute it spiked to $1.95, the pre-market high, on 173K shares. By 7:04 it was back down at $1.55.
A wall at $1.67
It opened at $1.74 and dropped to $1.55 in the 9:41 minute. Right after, a big ask wall showed at $1.67. It grew to 86K shares.
Stop It's 9:42. YFOR is at $1.59. It was $1.69 at 9:40. About 86,000 shares are offered at $1.67, above the price. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:39 a.m. and stop at 9:42 a.m. ET for your call.
The wall was never bought through. It was pulled at 9:44:25. The stock touched $1.68, then settled near $1.65.
Low, close, late jump
The slide went on. At 10:47 it hit $1.52, the low of the day. It got back to $1.86 that afternoon, then closed at $1.74.
After hours it jumped. At 5:22 p.m. it hit $2.25, the day's high.
What to take from it: A wall that is pulled is not a wall that breaks: the $1.67 wall vanished, and YFOR later made its low.
Replay YFOR's day
It starts at 9:55 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:58 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 hold. It gapped up 20.8% to $1.74 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $1.74 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 4:10 p.m. | News (PRNewsWire): YYForce Reports Estimated Total Assets of US$38.0M and Net Assets of US$25.2M as of June 30, 2026 | |
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.44 | |
| 7:03 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.95 | |
| 7:03 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.95 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.74, up 20.8% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.74, 10.8% below the high | |
| 5:21 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 3.86 million shares |
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
- $1.44
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.74
- Gap at the open
- +20.8%
- Pre-market high
- $1.95 at 7:03 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.95 at 7:03 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.52
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.74
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +20.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.25 at 5:22 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.51 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.20 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 14.8×
- Float
- 3.86 million shares, from filings as of September 16, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 7.84 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 11 hours 50 minutes after the latest news item before it (PRNewsWire, Sep 15, 4:10 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2.15 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (45%), 266,275 in the first 30 minutes (6%), and 2.31 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (49%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 3.86 million shares: past it once at 5:21 p.m.
- Other days YFOR met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 13, 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 YFOR 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.
Trade this day
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