Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 11, 2026
WYHG on August 11, 2026: why it ran
On August 11, 2026, WYHG opened up 40.4% from the previous close of 5.72 and reached 9.45 at 9:43 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it 2 times.
- Previous close
- 5.72
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 8.03
- Gap at the open
- up 40.4%
- Pre-market high
- 9.08 at 6:25 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 9.45 at 9:43 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 6.11
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 7.43 at 4:00 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 7.37
- Volume
- 6.64 million
- Relative volume
- 3.1x
- Float
- 6.96 million shares, from filings as of August 11, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 12.58 million
Replay WYHG's day
It starts at 9:20 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:23 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The day, step by step
- Small cap
- Momentum
- Main move: the open
- Gap, run and fade
- Halt run
- Halted twice
- Lower high after the top
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.
Stop It's 9:43. WYHG was halted at $9.34 and is reopening now. It is up from $8.03 at the open. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 9:43 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 9:40 a.m. ET.
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.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for WYHG published between the previous session's close and the first minute WYHG traded 20% above it, at 4:02 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 40.4% to 8.03 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 9.45 in 13 minutes through a halt, then gave back 146% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 7.37.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:02 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 5.72 | |
| 6:25 a.m. | Pre-market high, 9.08 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 8.03, up 40.4% from the previous close | |
| 9:38 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:43 a.m. | |
| 9:43 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 9.45 | |
| 9:43 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:48 a.m. | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 7.37, 22.0% below the high |
The shape is a fixed rule, not a judgement: gapped 10% or more at the open, ran 10% or more from the open to the high, and faded if it gave back 30% or more of that move by the close.
The day in numbers
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4.04 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (61%), 1.27 million in the first 30 minutes (19%), and 1.33 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (20%).
- The halt at 9:38 a.m.: up 12.7% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 9.34, unchanged from the last trade before it.
- The halt at 9:43 a.m.: down 10.0% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 8.23, down 2.1% from the last trade before it, then down 1.2% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days WYHG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on September 8, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:38 a.m. | 9:43 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:43 a.m. | 9:48 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
On this date the LULD plan ran under Amendment 18, in force from February 24, 2020: no band doubling at the open, and the closing doubling only for Tier 1 stocks and Tier 2 stocks whose previous close was at or below three dollars. See LULD halts or work out a band with the LULD calculator.
Trade this day
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