Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 31, 2026
WBUY on August 31, 2026: why it ran
On August 31, 2026, WBUY opened up 20.4% from the previous close of 0.8300 and reached 1.23 at 5:33 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 0.8300
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 0.9997
- Gap at the open
- up 20.4%
- Pre-market high
- 1.23 at 5:33 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.23 at 5:33 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.8232
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.00 at 4:50 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 0.9000
- Volume
- 19.03 million
- Relative volume
- 710.7x
- Float
- 3.17 million shares, from filings as of August 31, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 5.20 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for WBUY published between the previous session's close and the first minute WBUY traded 20% above it, at 4:37 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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WEBUY GLOBAL LTD. Reports Record NATAS Fair Bookings of US$ 4.76 Million, 42% Higher than March 2026
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 20.4% to 0.9997 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 1.18 in 25 minutes, then gave back 155% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 0.9000.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:30 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): WEBUY GLOBAL LTD. Reports Record NATAS Fair Bookings of US$ 4.76 Million, 42% Higher than March 2026 |
| 4:37 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 0.8300 |
| 5:21 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 3.17 million shares |
| 5:33 a.m. | Pre-market high, 1.23 |
| 5:33 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 1.23 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 0.9997, up 20.4% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 0.9000, 26.8% 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
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 7 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 4:30 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 13.78 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (72%), 1.57 million in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 3.68 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (19%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 3.17 million shares: past it once at 5:21 a.m., twice at 5:40 a.m., three times at 6:31 a.m.
- Other days WBUY met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 9, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for WBUY 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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