Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 26, 2026
WSHP on August 26, 2026: why it ran
On August 26, 2026, WSHP opened up 0.9% from the previous close of 4.69 and reached 7.91 at 12:16 p.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.
- Previous close
- 4.69
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 4.73
- Gap at the open
- up 0.9%
- Pre-market high
- 4.76 at 4:59 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 7.91 at 12:16 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.69
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 6.77 at 5:15 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 6.16
- Volume
- 5.50 million
- Relative volume
- 200.6x
- Float
- 4.14 million shares, from filings as of August 26, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 11.51 million
Replay WSHP's day
It starts at 11:15 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 11:18 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: late morning
- No news in the data
- Ask walls
- Halted once
- Halt reopen
- Faded into the close
A quiet start
On August 25, WSHP traded just 23,431 shares between $4.55 and $4.77. The official close was $4.69. The float is 4.14 million shares, so this was a thin stock before the day began. Our data shows no news headline for August 26.
The first trade on the 26th was at 4:48 a.m., at $4.69. The pre-market high was $4.76 at 4:59 a.m. Only 113 shares traded before the bell.
It opened at $4.73, up 1% from the previous close. Then almost nothing happened. Through 10:51 a.m. the high was $4.81, and most minutes had no trades or fewer than 100 shares.
The first run: $4.74 to $5.76
At 10:51 a.m. the last trade was $4.74. Five minutes later the 10:56 bar traded 3,567 shares, opened at $4.80 and reached $4.87. That was more than the whole pre-market.
At 11:06 it traded through $5.00 and touched $5.04. It ran to $5.76 at 11:17 a.m., up 22% from $4.74. The next minute it fell to $5.20.
It kept climbing, though. It tagged $6.00 at 11:25 and reached $6.18 at 11:29. Volume grew with it. The 11:32 minute alone traded 67,712 shares, and 11:34 traded 114,656.
The walls at $6.99, $7.47 and $7.74
Level 2 showed what was on the book during this run.
The 11:35 candle reached $7.00. At 11:35:48 and 11:35:49, two big piles of shares for sale showed up on the book: one at $6.99 and one at $7.47. Each peaked at about 25,000 shares, around 0.6% of the float. The $6.99 wall was pulled at 11:38:48. The 11:38 candle's low was $5.88. The $7.47 wall was pulled at 11:48:31.
At that same second, 11:48:31, a new ask wall appeared at $7.74.
Stop It's 12:07. WSHP is at $6.73, up from $4.74 an hour and a quarter ago. A big pile of shares has been offered at $7.74 since 11:48. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 12:07 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 12:04 p.m. ET.
Here's what happened. At 12:07:25 a buy order of 18,011 shares swept through 12 price levels, from $6.97 to $7.08. The $7.74 wall peaked at 26,100 shares at 12:07:30. Six seconds later, at 12:07:36, it was pulled. At that same second a new wall of 25,082 shares appeared at $8.15. The 12:07 minute closed at $7.35 on 217,837 shares.
The halt and the reopen
At 12:08:08 WSHP was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $7.35. It stayed halted for five minutes and resumed at 12:13:08.
Stop It's 12:13. WSHP has been halted since 12:08, with the last trade at $7.35. Trading is about to resume. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 12:13 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 12:10 p.m. ET.
Here's what happened. At 12:13:08, the first second, a single trade of 31,348 shares printed at $7.20. The 12:13 candle opened at $7.35, ran up to $7.87 and dipped to $7.08. It closed at $7.72 on 239,630 shares. The $8.15 wall was pulled at 12:13:16, and a new one formed at $8.81 at 12:13:31.
From $6.27 at 12:01 it ran to $7.91, the high of the day, at 12:16. Then it turned fast. A sell order of 12,502 shares swept through 14 levels at 12:17:09, and within a minute the price was back at $6.77.
By 12:37, more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (4.14 million). That was 24 minutes after the reopen.
The drop and the rest of the day
It slid to $6.34 by 12:22 and kept sliding, down to $5.77 at 1:06 p.m., 27% below $7.91.
It came back once more. At 1:34 p.m. it pushed to $6.50, a lower high under the $7.91 top. From there it faded: $5.95 at 3:35 p.m., and $6.16 at the close.
After hours it bounced to $6.65 at 4:45 p.m. and $6.77 at 5:15 p.m. It ended the extended session at $6.27.
By the close, 5.37 million shares had traded: the float changed hands about 1.3 times, at roughly 200 times its normal volume.
What to take from it
- A wall can vanish in an instant. The $7.74 wall left the book at 12:07:36 and a new one showed up at $8.15 in the same second. What you see on the book can change quickly.
- Right after this reopen, the screen price was misleading. A 5,000-share buy at 12:13:09 averaged $732 above the screen price.
- After the top, the next push stopped lower. $7.91 at 12:16, then $6.50 at 1:34 p.m. It closed at $6.16, 22% below the high.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for WSHP published between the previous session's close and the first minute WSHP traded 20% above it, at 11:16 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Intraday run. It opened up 0.9% at 4.73, then ran from the open to the high of 7.91 in 166 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:59 a.m. | Pre-market high, 4.76 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 4.73, up 0.9% from the previous close | |
| 11:16 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 4.69 | |
| 12:08 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 12:13 p.m. | |
| 12:16 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 7.91 | |
| 12:37 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 4.14 million shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 6.16, 22.1% 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: 113 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 9 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 5.50 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 4.14 million shares: past it once at 12:37 p.m.
- The halt at 12:08 p.m.: up 10.5% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 7.35, unchanged from the last trade before it, then down 5.7% over the next 5 minutes.
- In our recaps, this is the only day WSHP met the small-cap rule.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:08 p.m. | 12:13 p.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.
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