Recaps · August 13, 2026

YXT, August 13: a 7:00 headline, a $7.57 spike, and a faded day

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: pre-market
• News: 7:00 a.m. headline
• Float traded 3x
• Pre-market spike
• Faded after the spike

Float

977,116 shares

Volume

3.32 million shares

Previous close

$4.53

Open

$5.27 (up 16.3%)

High

$7.57 at 8:04 a.m.

Close

$5.61

The day before

On August 12, YXT traded between $4.52 and $6.24 and opened at $5.17. The official close was $4.53. After hours it was back up to $5.08.

Pre-market

The first trades on the 13th were at $5.43, already above the $4.53 close. The stock then slid. By 4:30 a.m. it was at $4.71, and it sat mostly between $4.60 and $4.90 for hours on thin volume.

At 7:00 a.m. GlobeNewsWire ran: “YXT.com Reports Unaudited Financial Results for the First Six Months of 2026”. A 6-K was filed at the same minute. The 7:00 minute traded 1,123 shares and closed at $4.77. Buying picked up a few minutes later.

A dip to $4.75 at 7:43 a.m. was followed by a run to $5.90 at 7:57 a.m., up 24% from that low. Volume jumped too: the 7:57 minute alone traded 36,601 shares.

The real move started at 8:01. From $5.42, it went to $6.94 in the 8:03 minute and then $7.57, the high of the day, at 8:04 a.m. That minute traded 350,926 shares. Within two minutes it was back at $6.35. 2.58 million shares traded before the bell.

The order book showed large sell orders above the price. At 8:04:26 an ask wall appeared at $8.27. It reached 50,000 shares, about 5% of the float, one second later. Another one came at $7.52 at 8:04:59, with a peak of 22,550 shares. It was pulled at 8:06:02. A third, at $6.99, was up from 8:06:10 to 8:14:30 and reached 23,182 shares.

By 8:05 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (977,116). At 8:05:29 one buy order swept 10,629 shares from $6.80 to $6.92 across 9 price levels.

Then it fell. At 8:09 the candle closed at $5.59. A sell sweep at 8:10:12 took 11,052 shares from $5.38 to $5.34. It hit $5.12 at 8:11 a.m., down 32% from $7.57 in seven minutes.

After that it settled between $4.91 and $5.65 until the open. The low in that stretch was $4.91 at 8:40.

The open

It opened at $5.27, up 16% from the previous close. At 9:30:00 a single trade of 10,194 shares printed at $5.27 on Nasdaq. The 9:30 candle dropped to $5.00, and it kept sliding.

The low of the session came at 9:49 a.m. at $4.37, 17% below the $5.27 open and below the $4.53 previous close.

At 10:14 it jumped from $4.77 to $5.37. It reached $5.40 at 10:15 a.m., 24% above that 9:49 low. At 10:21 an ask wall of up to 20,405 shares formed at $5.58. It was pulled at 10:29. The same price showed a wall again from 11:05 to 11:07.

The afternoon and the close

After a dip to $4.96 at 10:30, the stock drifted higher in a narrow range. It was at $5.34 by noon and stayed between $5.25 and $5.55 for most of the afternoon.

It came back once more. At 3:22 p.m. it pushed to $5.70, a lower high under the $7.57 top. It closed at $5.61, up 24% on the day.

The regular session traded 638,820 shares. For the whole day, 3.32 million shares traded: the float changed hands about 3.4 times, at about 1.9 times its normal volume. Most of that, 2.58 million shares, traded before the open.

What to take from it

• A spike can be over in minutes. $7.57 came at 8:04 a.m. and it was at $5.12 by 8:11 a.m., with ask walls posted above the price during the drop.
• Every push after the top stopped lower. After $7.57 at 8:04 a.m., the best the regular session managed was $5.70 at 3:22 p.m.
• Most of the move was gone by the close. It closed at $5.61, 26% below the $7.57 high, and the float had traded before the open.