Recaps · September 16, 2026

YFOR, September 16: the 7:03 spike to $1.95, a pulled wall, and a low at $1.52

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: after hours
• News: after the prior close
• Pre-market spike
• Ask wall pulled
• No halts

News

PRNewsWire, the day before at 4:10 p.m.

Float

7.65 million shares

Volume

4.72 million shares

Previous close

$1.44

Open

$1.74 (up 20.8%)

High

$1.95 at 7:03 a.m.

Close

$1.74

The day before

On September 15, YFOR opened at $1.40 and ran to $2.15. It closed at $1.44, close to where it started.

The news came after the close. At 4:10 p.m. PRNewsWire ran: “YYForce Reports Estimated Total Assets of US$38.0M and Net Assets of US$25.2M as of June 30, 2026.” After hours the last bar of the day was $1.92.

Pre-market

The first trades on the 16th were at $1.74, already 21% above the $1.44 close. In the first minute it touched $1.83. In the 4:12 a.m. minute it hit a low of $1.55.

From there it was slow. From about 4:16 to 6:20 it mostly traded between $1.64 and $1.80. At 6:49 a.m. it was at $1.72.

Here's what happened. The 7:02 minute pushed up to $1.82. Then the 7:03 minute opened at $1.82 and hit $1.95, the pre-market high, up 35% from the previous close. 173,486 shares traded in that one minute. It closed the minute at $1.71.

The next minute was just as busy: 178,924 shares, and a low of $1.55 at 7:04. That was the same low as 4:12. So the spike and the drop took two minutes.

2.15 million shares traded before the bell. The float is 7.65 million.

The open and the wall at $1.67

It opened at $1.74, 21% above the previous close, and dipped to $1.69 in the first minute. For the next ten minutes it held between $1.69 and $1.76.

On the Level 2 book: At 9:25 a.m. a bid wall appeared at $1.50: 44,138 shares, 0.6% of the float. At 9:40 an ask wall appeared at $2.00: 38,763 shares, 0.5% of the float.

Then at 9:41 the price broke. A 14,285-share sell went through four price levels at once, from $1.68 to $1.65. The minute's low was $1.55, on 40,195 shares. One second after that sweep, a new ask wall showed at $1.67. It grew to 85,953 shares (1.1% of the float) at 9:41:45.

Here's what happened. The wall did not get eaten. It was pulled at 9:44:25. The stock touched $1.68 in the 9:44 and 9:45 minutes, then settled around $1.65.

At 9:52:18 a single trade of 41,674 shares printed at $1.64, at the bid on Nasdaq. That was most of the 46,536 shares that traded in that minute. At 9:57 another ask wall showed at $1.62. It grew to 58,931 shares at 9:58:55 and was pulled at 9:59:22. The low in those minutes was $1.57.

The low and the rebound to $1.86

It ran back to $1.74 at 10:09 a.m. Then it drifted down. At 10:47 it hit $1.52, the low of the day, on 44,672 shares in that minute. It never traded down to the $1.50 bid wall, which stayed on the book until 3:02 p.m.

It moved up slowly. At 12:46 p.m. it pushed to $1.80 on 40,998 shares, and at 12:48 it touched $1.83. It pulled back to $1.65 at 1:21 p.m.

At 2:20 p.m. it started up again. At 2:25 p.m. it reached $1.86, the high of the regular session, still below the $1.95 pre-market high. It faded to $1.68 at 3:10 p.m. and closed at $1.74.

During the regular session, 1.37 million shares traded. For the whole day, including pre-market and after hours, it was 4.72 million: less than the 7.65 million float, at about 15 times its normal volume.

After hours

After the close it started at $1.72 and climbed to $1.96 by 5:18 p.m. Then at 5:21 p.m. it jumped to $2.19 and at 5:22 p.m. it hit $2.25, the high of the day. 146,384 and 179,688 shares traded in those two minutes. No news in our data is time-stamped near it.

It gave back part of it fast. It was at $1.96 by 5:25 p.m. and at $1.87 by 7:59 p.m. After-hours volume was 1.20 million shares.

What to take from it

• A spike on huge volume can be gone in two minutes. At 7:03 YFOR went from $1.82 to $1.95 and back to $1.55 by 7:04, on more than 170,000 shares each minute.
• A wall that disappears is not a wall that breaks. The 86,000-share ask wall at $1.67 was pulled, not eaten.
• The pre-market high was not retested in the regular session. From 9:30 to 4:00 YFOR never got back to $1.95. Its regular-session high was $1.86.