Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 20, 2026
WETO on August 20, 2026: why it ran
On August 20, 2026, WETO opened up 45.7% from the previous close of 20.76 and reached 36.36 at 9:52 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.
- Previous close
- 20.76
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 30.25
- Gap at the open
- up 45.7%
- Pre-market high
- 35.92 at 7:38 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 36.36 at 9:52 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 21.40
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 29.38 at 4:16 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 27.68
- Volume
- 2.16 million
- Relative volume
- 0.6x
- Float
- 2.66 million shares, from filings as of August 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.82 million
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for WETO published between the previous session's close and the first minute WETO traded 20% above it, at 7:07 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 45.7% to 30.25 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 36.36 in 22 minutes through a halt, then gave back 142% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 27.68.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:07 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 20.76 |
| 7:38 a.m. | Pre-market high, 35.92 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 30.25, up 45.7% from the previous close |
| 9:37 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:42 a.m. |
| 9:52 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 36.36 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 27.68, 23.9% 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: 1.02 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (47%), 429,316 in the first 30 minutes (20%), and 712,714 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (33%).
- The halt at 9:37 a.m.: down 9.9% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 29.20, up 0.8% from the last trade before it, then up 9.6% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days WETO met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 13, the latest on October 7, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:37 a.m. | 9:42 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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