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WETO on September 4, 2026: why it ran
On September 4, 2026, WETO opened up 28.0% from the previous close of 3.22 and reached 4.37 at 8:59 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it 3 times.
- Previous close
- 3.22
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 4.12
- Gap at the open
- up 28.0%
- Pre-market high
- 4.37 at 8:59 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.37 at 8:59 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.44
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.66 at 5:37 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 2.54
- Volume
- 10.12 million
- Relative volume
- 2.2x
- Float
- 914,205 shares, from filings as of September 4, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.08 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 4:05 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Gap and fade. It gapped up 28.0% to 4.12 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at 2.54.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:05 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 3.22 |
| 4:27 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 914,205 shares |
| 8:59 a.m. | Pre-market high, 4.37 |
| 8:59 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 4.37 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 4.12, up 28.0% from the previous close |
| 9:31 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:36 a.m. |
| 9:36 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:41 a.m. |
| 9:46 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:51 a.m. |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 2.54, 41.9% 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: 4.13 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (41%), 2.89 million in the first 30 minutes (29%), and 3.10 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (31%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 914,205 shares: past it once at 4:27 a.m., twice at 7:48 a.m., three times at 8:57 a.m.
- The halt at 9:31 a.m.: down 9.4% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.67, unchanged from the last trade before it.
- The halt at 9:36 a.m.: down 11.7% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.24, unchanged from the last trade before it, then down 15.4% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 9:46 a.m.: down 21.9% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 2.70, up 8.4% from the last trade before it, then up 3.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:31 a.m. | 9:36 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:36 a.m. | 9:41 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:46 a.m. | 9:51 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.
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