Recaps · August 27, 2026

YMT, August 27: two walls, three halts, and $4.95

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: pre-market
• Ultra-low float
• Ask walls pulled
• Halted three times
• Faded below the open
• Float traded 81x

Float

20,875 shares

Volume

1.70 million shares

Previous close

$3.23

Open

$3.05 (up 5.6%)

High

$4.95 at 9:06 a.m.

Halts

3 (9:32 a.m. and 9:37 a.m. and 9:48 a.m.)

Close

$2.79

Pre-market: the float traded by 9:02 a.m.

The float is tiny: 20,875 shares. The previous close was $3.23. The first trades on the 27th were at 9:00 a.m., at $3.52.

By 9:02 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float. From $3.40 at 9:01 it ran to $4.43 at 9:02, up 30%. Then it fell to $3.34 at 9:03, down 25% from $4.43.

It ran again. By the end of the 9:06 minute about 25 times the float had traded. The 9:06 minute alone was 320,801 shares, and it printed $4.95 at 9:06 a.m. That minute also traded as low as $3.78 and closed at $3.80. 1.20 million shares traded before the bell.

Two ask walls

Right after that spike, large blocks of stock appeared for sale above the price.

The wall at $3.90 was first seen at 9:07:00. It peaked at 29,365 shares at 9:07:16, about 141% of the float. Then at 9:08:15 it was pulled. It wasn't eaten: only 680 shares traded at exactly $3.90. In the 9:08 minute the price went to $4.19, a lower high under the $4.95 top.

A second wall showed up at $3.45 at 9:12:55. It peaked at 27,041 shares at 9:13:15, about 130% of the float. It was pulled at 9:14:11. The price did not get to it in the minutes after: the 9:13 high was $3.39 and the 9:14 high was $3.36. The 9:13 minute dropped to $3.07.

The open and three halts

It opened at $3.05, down 6% from the previous close. It slid to $2.77 by 9:32.

At 9:32:35 it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $2.77. It reopened at 9:37:35 at $2.62, 5% below where it stopped.

At 9:37:56 it was halted again with the last trade at $2.78. It reopened at 9:47:56 at $3.09, 11% above where it stopped. A halt can reopen on either side.

The 9:48 minute pushed to $3.40, and at 9:48:26 it was halted a third time at $3.40.

It reopened at 9:53:26 at $3.40. At that second a single print of 11,845 shares went through at $3.40 on Nasdaq. The minute traded 65,258 shares, ran to $3.45, dropped to $3.06, and closed at $3.30.

The rest of the day

After the third halt the volume dried up. From about 10 a.m. it drifted from around $3.10 toward the $2.70s and $2.80s on thin volume, sometimes with a few minutes passing between trades. The low of the day came late: $2.48 at 3:16 p.m. It bounced into the close and finished the regular session at $2.79, below the $3.23 previous close.

After hours it pushed up to $3.19 at 6:59 p.m., then drifted back. The data lists no news headline for the day.

The regular session (9:30 to 4:00) traded 440,624 shares. For the whole day, 1.70 million shares traded: the float changed hands about 81 times, at about 6 times its normal volume. Most of that was before the bell.

What to take from it

• All of the move was gone by the close. It closed at $2.79, 44% below the $4.95 high and below the $3.23 previous close.
• A wall that is pulled is not a wall that is eaten. The $3.90 wall disappeared with only 680 shares traded at that price. A pulled wall shows nothing about whether that size was ever really for sale.
• Reopen fills depend on the book. The same 5,000-share buy cost $351 over the screen at the 9:37 reopen and $0 over at 9:53. At 9:37 only 62 shares sat at the screen price; at 9:53 there were 17,824.