Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 12, 2026
WFF, October 12: 41 halts and $50.60
WFF opened up 20%, ran to $50.60 through 41 halts, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $15.45, on 5.3M shares.
The open
It opened up 20%, at $14.72. It ran to $50.60 by 2:47 p.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it 41 times, from 9:38 a.m. to 3:49 p.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 9:38 a.m.: 20% above the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $17.28, 66% under its high.
What to take from it: The high came early. Most of the run was gone by the close, so the move was in the morning, not the hold.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 19.8% to $14.72 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $50.60 in 317 minutes through 35 halts, then gave back 93% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $17.28, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:11 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $12.29 |
| 9:11 a.m. | Pre-market high, $15.45 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $14.72, up 19.8% from the previous close |
| 2:47 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $50.60 |
| 3:49 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $17.28, 65.8% 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
- $12.29
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $14.72
- Gap at the open
- +19.8%
- Pre-market high
- $15.45 at 9:11 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $50.60 at 2:47 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.75
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $17.28
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +40.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $21.60 at 4:02 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 18.25 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.54 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 5.9×
- Float
- 41.92 million shares, from filings as of October 12, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 45.36 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 5.26 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (25%), 1.50 million in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 14.03 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (67%).
- Other days WFF met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, 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 (41)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:38 a.m. | 9:53 a.m. | 15 min 25 s | up 17.3% | $18.20, up 19.9% | up 8.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:55 a.m. | 10:00 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 30.4% | $19.50, down 1.5% | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:01 a.m. | 10:06 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 8.4% | $21.45, unchanged | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:06 a.m. | 10:16 a.m. | 10 min 1 s | up 10.0% | $27.00, up 14.4% | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:17 a.m. | 10:22 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 25.8% | $29.71, unchanged | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:22 a.m. | 10:32 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 10.0% | $24.70, down 7.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:32 a.m. | 10:42 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 16.9% | $21.00, down 5.5% | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:43 a.m. | 10:48 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 3.9% | $23.11, unchanged | up 14.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:51 a.m. | 11:01 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 14.3% | $30.01, up 13.6% | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 11:02 a.m. | 11:12 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 25.0% | $35.49, up 7.5% | down 13.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 11:13 a.m. | 11:23 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 6.6% | $29.00, down 5.9% | down 17.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 11:25 a.m. | 11:30 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 22.5% | $24.20, up 1.3% | down 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 11:31 a.m. | 11:41 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 8.9% | $20.88, down 4.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:41 a.m. | 11:51 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 13.7% | $18.00, down 4.2% | down 10.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 11:53 a.m. | 11:58 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 14.6% | $15.25, down 4.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:58 a.m. | 12:03 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 14.4% | $13.22, down 3.7% | up 5.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:04 p.m. | 12:14 p.m. | 10 min 1 s | up 2.0% | $15.50, up 10.7% | up 4.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:20 p.m. | 12:25 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 2.7% | $14.10, down 3.0% | down 10.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:27 p.m. | 12:32 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.4% | $12.59, unchanged | down 14.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:33 p.m. | 12:38 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 14.7% | $10.71, down 0.3% | down 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:39 p.m. | 12:44 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 10.2% | $9.35, down 3.0% | up 1.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:48 p.m. | 12:58 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 1.8% | $9.91, up 4.6% | up 11.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:59 p.m. | 1:04 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 16.2% | $11.31, up 2.8% | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:06 p.m. | 1:11 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 13.1% | $12.70, up 2.1% | up 14.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:12 p.m. | 1:22 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 17.3% | $16.00, up 9.7% | up 11.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:24 p.m. | 1:29 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 21.9% | $18.00, up 1.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:29 p.m. | 1:34 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 6.2% | $19.20, up 1.6% | up 7.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:35 p.m. | 1:40 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 9.6% | $20.70, unchanged | down 8.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:48 p.m. | 1:58 p.m. | 10 min 1 s | up 14.7% | $23.80, up 14.0% | up 6.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:59 p.m. | 2:04 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 20.8% | $25.20, down 0.1% | up 0.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:07 p.m. | 2:12 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 0.6% | $25.40, unchanged | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:13 p.m. | 2:18 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 10.0% | $26.60, down 4.8% | up 8.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:20 p.m. | 2:25 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 3.6% | $29.80, up 3.0% | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:26 p.m. | 2:37 p.m. | 11 min 16 s | up 13.3% | $37.37, up 14.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:37 p.m. | 2:47 p.m. | 10 min 9 s | up 25.4% | $46.00, up 11.9% | down 9.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:48 p.m. | 2:53 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 1.9% | $40.00, down 4.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:53 p.m. | 3:03 p.m. | 10 min 1 s | down 14.0% | $31.04, down 13.8% | down 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:04 p.m. | 3:14 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 22.4% | $24.55, down 12.1% | down 6.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:16 p.m. | 3:21 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 17.7% | $22.31, down 3.0% | down 13.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:26 p.m. | 3:31 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 18.2% | $20.50, up 6.6% | down 9.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:49 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | 10 min 27 s | down 18.5% | $17.28, unchanged | up 12.8% | 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
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