Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 12, 2026
WBUY, October 12: a run to $1.29
WBUY opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.29 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.02, on 7M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $0.7822. It ran to $1.29 by 11:39 a.m.
The close
It closed at $0.82, 36% 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 up 7.0% at $0.7822, then ran from the open to the high of $1.29 in 129 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.731 |
| 5:31 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.02 |
| 5:31 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 3.22 million shares |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.7822, up 7.0% from the previous close |
| 11:39 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.29 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.82, 36.4% 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
- $0.731
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.7822
- Gap at the open
- +7.0%
- Pre-market high
- $1.02 at 5:31 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.29 at 11:39 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.6655
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.82
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +12.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.04 at 5:18 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 25.87 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.51 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 18.3×
- Float
- 3.22 million shares, from filings as of October 12, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 5.25 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 7.05 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (26%), 586,466 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 19.74 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (72%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 3.22 million shares: past it once at 5:31 a.m., twice at 7:39 a.m., three times at 10:53 a.m.
- Other days WBUY met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, 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 WBUY 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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