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WFF on August 31, 2026: why it ran

Published October 11, 2026 · By Hindsight Markets

On August 31, 2026, WFF opened up 8.7% from the previous close of 1.73 and reached 2.75 at 9:44 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.

Previous close

1.73

Open, 9:30 a.m.

1.88

Gap at the open

up 8.7%

Pre-market high

1.95 at 6:57 a.m.

High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.

2.75 at 9:44 a.m.

Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.

1.75

After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

2.09 at 5:47 p.m.

Last trade before 4:00 p.m.

2.02

Volume

2.02 million

Relative volume

0.6x

Float

41.92 million shares, from filings as of August 31, 2026

Shares outstanding

45.36 million

Halts

1

Why it ran

News and SEC filings for WFF published between the previous session's close and the first minute WFF traded 20% above it, at 9:38 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 8.7% at 1.88, then ran from the open to the high of 2.75 in 14 minutes through a halt.

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: 141,505 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (7%), 923,606 in the first 30 minutes (46%), and 950,100 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (47%).
• The halt at 9:39 a.m.: up 25.3% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 2.50, up 5.0% from the last trade before it, then down 16.0% over the next 5 minutes.
• Other days WFF met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on October 9, 2026.

Halts

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.