YJ on August 7, 2026: why it ran

The day, step by step

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: late morning
• Halt run
• Halted 13 times
• Ask wall
• Lower high
• Float traded 9x

Pre-market: thin and quiet

The previous close was $1.35. Pre-market it traded in tiny size, 8,238 shares in total.

The pre-market high was $1.49 at 7:39 a.m. The open was $1.38. For the first 18 minutes after the open it stayed between $1.31 and $1.53.

9:48 a.m.: the first move, then the first halt

At 9:48 it began to climb from $1.50. Volume picked up: 13,161 shares in the 9:52 minute, 40,354 at 9:53, then 52,948 at 9:54, when it reached $2.09.

At 9:55:06 it was halted (a volatility pause). It reopened at 10:00:06 and the first minute ran to $2.52. At 10:00:25 it was halted again.

A staircase of halts to $6.00

The second halt reopened at 10:21:10 at $3.27. In that same minute it hit $3.96, was halted again at 10:21:57, and reopened at 10:26:57. At 10:27:21 it was halted once more and reopened at 10:32:21 at $3.32.

From 10:27:07 there was an ask wall at $3.18 that peaked at 85,132 shares (3.4% of the float). It was pulled at 10:32:22, after the halt ended.

At 10:32:49 it was halted again, this time for 25 minutes. It reopened at 10:57:50 at $5.00, on a single print of 150,882 shares. A buy sweep of 30,264 shares ran from $4.00 to $5.68 in the same moment. The 10:57 minute reached $6.00.

Wild swings between $4.15 and $8.25

By 10:58, more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (2.51 million). The 10:58 minute fell to $4.15, then it ran to $6.37 at 10:59.

From 10:59:33 a bid wall sat at $6.37, peaking at 78,930 shares. At 10:59:46 the stock was halted. The wall was pulled at 11:04:47, just after the reopen at 11:04:46.

It dipped to $4.55 at 11:05, then was halted again at 11:06:21 and reopened at 11:11:21 at $6.57. A minute later it hit $8.25 at 11:12. It fell back to $6.02 by 11:15.

The climb to $10.95 and the wall at $12.00

Over the next half hour it worked higher with many sharp swings: $8.62 at 11:27, $9.48 at 11:32, then $9.94 at 11:41. Several large buy sweeps went through the book, including 48,583 shares from $9.81 to $10.20 at 11:42:46.

At 11:43:09 it was halted with the last trade at $10.95. During the halt, from 11:50:38, a large ask wall sat at exactly $12.00. It peaked at 95,410 shares at 11:51:01, about 3.8% of the float.

It reopened at 11:58:31 at $13.15, 20% above where it stopped, on a 108,704-share print. The $12.00 wall was pulled at 11:58:30, one second before. Three sell sweeps went through right away, the last one taking 47,700 shares from $13.03 down to $12.13.

$13.98, then the unwind

The high so far was $13.98, in the 11:58 minute. A 5,000-share buy at 11:58:49 would have averaged $13.98 against $13.82 on screen, $793 more.

By the end of that minute it was at $13.01. At 11:59:34 it was halted again with the last trade at $10.41. It reopened at 12:04:34 at $11.00 and fell to $8.80 within that minute.

A new ask wall formed at $8.80 from 12:04:53. It peaked at 136,910 shares (5.5% of the float) and was pulled at 12:10:37. Two more halts followed. After one, at 12:15:07, it reopened at $8.53. Another wall formed at $6.82, peaking at 150,297 shares (6.0% of the float). The last of that run of halts ended at 12:25:33, with a reopen at $5.80.

A lower high and a slow fade

It fell to $5.36 at 12:27, down 62% from the top. At 12:28 it pushed to $7.20, a lower high under $13.98.

From there it drifted. It ran between about $5.00 and $7.20 until 1:17 p.m., then slid to $4.22 at 1:21.

The wall at $3.71

From 1:22 p.m. an ask wall sat at $3.71. It peaked at 86,416 shares at 1:22:56, about 3.4% of the float. At 1:22:58 the stock was halted for five minutes.

At 1:28:05, 12,219 shares traded at exactly $3.71, and the wall was eaten at 1:28:06. The 1:28 minute reached $4.28 and the 1:29 minute $4.90. At 1:30:07 it was halted for the thirteenth time. It reopened at 1:35:07.

The close and after hours

It kept fading: $4.19 at 1:39 p.m., $3.02 at 2:42 p.m., and $3.62 at the close (the 3:59 bar).

By the close 21.63 million shares had traded: the float changed hands about 9 times, at about 2,400 times its normal volume. It was halted 13 times.

After hours it spiked to $4.79 at 4:04 p.m., then faded to $2.70 by 7:58 p.m. About 2.2 million more shares traded after hours.

What to take from it

• A halt can reopen far above where it stopped. The 11:43 halt stopped at $10.95 and reopened at $13.15.
• Reopens are thin. In the seconds after a halt, a 5,000-share order cost between $0 and $4,562 more than the screen showed. At 12:04 the figure was $4,562.
• A big wall can vanish just before a halt ends. The $12.00 wall was pulled at 11:58:30; the stock reopened at $13.15, hit $13.98, and was at $8.80 by 12:04, with no later bar trading above $8.80.

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