Recaps · August 11, 2026

WYHG, August 11: a 4 a.m. spike, a run at the open, and a halt

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: the open
• Gap, run and fade
• Halt run
• Halted twice
• Lower high after the top

Float

6.96 million shares

Volume

6.64 million shares

Previous close

$5.72

Open

$8.03 (up 40.4%)

High

$9.45 at 9:43 a.m.

Halts

2 (9:38 a.m. and 9:43 a.m.)

Close

$7.37

The day before

On August 10, WYHG ran from $5.28 to a high of $12.70. It gave most of it back and closed at $5.72.

Pre-market: spikes at 4 a.m., 5:54 and 6:25

The first trades on the 11th were around $6.52, already above the $5.72 close. The low so far, $6.11, printed in that first minute.

It ran fast. By 4:04 a.m. it hit $8.41. Then it sold off to $6.75 at 4:07 a.m.

A second push took it to $8.34 at 4:19 a.m. After that it drifted. It sat mostly between $7.30 and $7.90 for over an hour, dipping to $7.02 at 5:37 a.m.

At 5:51 a.m. it started moving again. It reached $8.88 at 5:54 a.m. on heavy volume.

The pre-market high came at $9.08 at 6:25 a.m. From there it slowly slid back to the $7.50s. 4.04 million shares traded before the bell, more than half of the 6.96 million share float.

The open and the first halt

It opened at $8.03, 40% above the previous close. It worked between $7.87 and $8.50 for the first six minutes.

Then the 9:37 minute broke out. It went from $8.37 to $9.24 on 136,710 shares. The next minute it reached $9.34, and at 9:38:17 it was halted (a volatility pause).

The halt lasted five minutes. It reopened at 9:43:17 at $9.34. The reopen began with a 30,475-share print at $9.34.

Here is what happened. The stock tagged $9.45, the high of the day, in that minute. Then it turned. It fell to $8.41 inside the same candle.

The second halt

At 9:43:51 it was halted again, with the last trade at $8.41. It had fallen about 11% from the high in under a minute.

It reopened at 9:48:51 at $8.23. That is below the $8.41 where it stopped. The reopen began with a 30,440-share print at $8.23.

At 9:49:48 a sell order of 12,422 shares swept down through 13 price levels, from $8.02 to $7.89. The 9:49 candle hit $7.85, 17% below the high. The minute traded 158,290 shares, the most of any minute that day.

The lower high and the fade

It tried again. The 9:51 minute pushed to $8.82, under the $9.45 top, and closed at $8.19.

By 9:58 it was at $7.65 and spent the next hour between about $6.70 and $8. At 10:21 a heavy minute (66,115 shares) dropped it from $7.52 to $7.00. The low after the open was $6.15 at 11:44.

Late in the day it came back some. At 3:17 p.m. a bid wall began to build at $6.75 on Level 2. It peaked at 80,366 shares at 3:35 p.m., about 1.1% of the float. It closed at $7.37.

By the close, 2.52 million shares had traded in the regular session. Pre-market had traded 4.04 million, so most of the day's volume came before the open. The whole day was 6.64 million, about 3 times normal volume.

What to take from it

• After the top, the later pushes stopped lower. $9.45 at 9:43, then $9.04 at 9:49 and $8.82 at 9:51.
• A halt can reopen lower than it stopped. The second halt stopped at $8.41 and reopened at $8.23.
• The screen price is not your price at a reopen. Both reopen fills cost more than the screen, up to $1,168 on 5,000 shares.