Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 13, 2026
YXT on August 13, 2026: why it ran
On August 13, 2026, YXT opened up 16.3% from the previous close of 4.53 and reached 7.57 at 8:04 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 4.53
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 5.27
- Gap at the open
- up 16.3%
- Pre-market high
- 7.57 at 8:04 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 7.57 at 8:04 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.37
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 5.80 at 5:01 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 5.61
- Volume
- 3.32 million
- Relative volume
- 1.9x
- Float
- 977,116 shares, from filings as of August 13, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 6.11 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Replay YXT's day
It starts at 7:46 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 7:49 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: pre-market
- News: 7:00 a.m. headline
- Float traded 3x
- Pre-market spike
- Faded after the spike
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.
Stop It's 7:49. YXT is at $4.99, the open of this minute. The previous close was $4.53, and the six-month results headline came out at 7:00. The stock reached $5.50 at 7:34, then fell to $4.75 at 7:43 and has stayed between $4.91 and $4.98 since. Volume in those minutes is thin: the last full minute traded 126 shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 7:49 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 7:46 a.m. ET.
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.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for YXT published between the previous session's close and the first minute YXT traded 20% above it, at 4:03 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Gap and hold. It gapped up 16.3% to 5.27 at the open and held above it, trading at 5.61 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:03 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 4.53 | |
| 8:04 a.m. | Pre-market high, 7.57 | |
| 8:04 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 7.57 | |
| 8:05 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 977,116 shares | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 5.27, up 16.3% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 5.61, 25.9% 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: 2.58 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (78%), 187,776 in the first 30 minutes (6%), and 549,272 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (17%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 977,116 shares: past it once at 8:05 a.m., twice at 8:10 a.m., three times at 11:35 a.m.
- Other days YXT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 5, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for YXT that day.
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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