Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on October 1, 2026

WFCF on October 1, 2026: why it ran

Published October 9, 2026 · By Hindsight Markets

On October 1, 2026, WFCF opened down 0.3% from the previous close of 11.06 and reached 18.73 at 1:53 p.m. ET. The exchange halted it 12 times.

Previous close: 11.06
Open, 9:30 a.m.: 11.03
Gap at the open: down 0.3%
Pre-market high: not available
High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.: 18.73 at 1:53 p.m.
Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.: 10.67
After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.: 13.36 at 4:11 p.m.
Last trade before 4:00 p.m.: 12.72
Volume: 1.04 million
Relative volume: 215.1x
Float: 2.28 million shares, from filings as of October 1, 2026
Shares outstanding: 4.98 million
Halts: 12

WFCF on October 1, 2026, one-minute bars in New York time. Shaded: before the 9:30 a.m. open and after the 4:00 p.m. close. Bands: halts from the exchange's feed. Dotted line: the previous close.

Replay WFCF's day

It starts at 1:35 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 1:38 p.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 to afternoon
News: filing (EFFECT)
Halt run
Halted 12 times
Lower high after the top
Faded into the close

The day before, and a quiet morning

On September 30, WFCF traded just 345 shares. The official close was $11.06.

At 12:15 a.m. on October 1, an EFFECT notice was posted (a registration was declared effective). That is the only news item in our data for the day.

Nothing traded pre-market. The first trade was 3 shares at $11.03 at 9:30, a little under the $11.06 close. The float is small, 2.28 million shares. Many minutes in the morning had no trades at all, and no minute before 11:29 had more than 17 shares. The price sat between $11.02 and $11.55. The exception was 10:38, when a 17-share minute touched $12.13 and was back at $11.34 by the end of the minute.

11:29: the volume arrives

At 11:29 the stock traded 500 shares in one minute, starting at $11.43 and reaching a high of $12.00. That was the biggest minute of the day up to then. At 11:31 it touched $12.56.

Stop It's 11:32. WFCF is at $12.80, up from $11.43 at 11:29. Before 11:29 it traded a few shares a minute. Would you buy here?

Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 11:32 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 11:29 a.m. ET.

Here's what happened. The 11:32 minute traded 4,778 shares and reached $13.46. At 11:33:03 it was halted on a volatility pause (LULD). The last trade before the halt was $12.80. The halt lasted ten minutes. At 11:43:04 it reopened at $15.25, $2.45 above where it stopped.

It kept going. At 11:45 it hit $16.00, on 14,825 shares in that one minute. By 11:46 it was down to $13.35, and at 11:47:36 it was halted again.

Reopens, and a flush to $10.67

From here the halts came often, 11 more in about two hours. Each one after the first lasted five minutes. This is the part a chart doesn't show you: the book right after each reopen we measured was thin.

The price slid. It was halted again at 11:54:39 and reopened at 11:59:39. The 12:00 minute went down to $11.00, 31% below the $16.00 high. At 12:02 it reached $10.67, the low so far, on 13,051 shares.

Across the 11 reopens we have fills for, the screen price had fewer than 400 shares behind it every time. The extra cost of a 5,000-share buy ranged from $1,936 to $21,132.

Up and down, halt after halt

At 12:03 it jumped to $12.55 and was halted at 12:04:03. When it reopened at 12:09:03 it ran from $12.55 to $14.88 within the minute. At 12:11 it reached $15.79 on 28,870 shares, 43% above the $11.08 low of 12:03.

Then the swings repeated. It was halted at 12:15 and 12:21, and it fell to $11.05 at 12:30. It was halted again at 12:32 and reopened at 12:37. The 12:52 halt reopened at 12:57, and the stock ran from $12.21 to $14.76 by 12:58, then touched $14.98 at 1:00 p.m. Halts at 1:03, 1:15 and 1:27 p.m. followed. At 1:33 p.m. it reached $15.90.

By 1:38 p.m. it was down to $13.20.

A twelfth halt

At 1:43 p.m. it was halted for the twelfth time. It reopened at 1:48:43.

Stop It's 1:49 p.m. WFCF reopened from its 12th halt a minute ago and is at $15.85. The high of the day so far is $16.00, from 11:45. Would you buy here?

Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 1:49 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 1:46 p.m. ET.

Here's what happened. The 1:49 minute went to $17.30. At 1:50 p.m. it hit $18.44 on 40,808 shares, the biggest minute of the day. It dipped to $16.60 at 1:51, then made $18.73, the high of the day, at 1:53 p.m. That is 69% above the $11.06 previous close. In the next minute it dipped to $16.50.

From there it slid. It was $15.13 at 2:00 p.m. and $13.77 at 2:02 p.m., 26% below the top.

The rest of the day

At 2:06 p.m. it pushed to $15.00, a lower high under the $18.73 top. After that the volume dried up. Most minutes traded a few hundred shares or fewer.

The price drifted: $12.15 at 2:43 p.m., a spike to $13.78 at 3:08 p.m., and $12.72 at the end of the 3:59 minute, 32% below the high. After hours, 15,335 shares traded between $12.15 and $13.36.

For the regular session, 1.02 million shares traded: less than half the float changed hands, at about 215 times the stock's normal volume. It was halted 12 times.

What to take from it

Halt reopens on a thin float are expensive. In every reopen we measured, a 5,000-share market buy cost between $1,936 and $21,132 more than the screen price, because only a few hundred shares or fewer sat at it.
A stock that trades a few shares a minute can move 69% in a few hours. Here it went from $11.06 to $18.73 on less than half the float, after a morning of almost nothing.
After the top, the next push stopped lower. $18.73 at 1:53 p.m., then $15.00 at 2:06 p.m. By the end of the 3:59 minute it was at $12.72, still above the $11.06 previous close.

Open this recap on its own page

Why it ran

News and SEC filings for WFCF published between the previous session's close and the first minute WFCF traded 20% above it, at 11:32 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.

12:15 a.m. ET · EFFECT filed with the SEC

How it traded

Intraday run. It opened down 0.3% at 11.03, then ran from the open to the high of 18.73 in 263 minutes through 12 halts.

Time (ET)	What happened	Watch it
12:15 a.m.	SEC filing EFFECT:
9:30 a.m.	The open: 11.03, down 0.3% from the previous close
11:32 a.m.	First trade 20% above the previous close of 11.06
11:33 a.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 11:43 a.m.
11:47 a.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 11:52 a.m.
11:54 a.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 11:59 a.m.
12:04 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 12:09 p.m.
12:15 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 12:20 p.m.
12:21 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 12:26 p.m.
12:32 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 12:37 p.m.
12:52 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 12:57 p.m.
1:03 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 1:08 p.m.
1:15 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 1:20 p.m.
1:27 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 1:32 p.m.
1:43 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 1:48 p.m.
1:53 p.m.	High of the day to the close, 18.73
3:59 p.m.	Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 12.72, 32.1% 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

From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 11 hours 16 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (EFFECT, 12:15 a.m.).
Volume, from the one-minute bars: 0 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 14 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 1.04 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
The halt at 11:33 a.m.: up 11.4% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 15.25, up 19.1% from the last trade before it, then down 12.5% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 11:47 a.m.: up 4.3% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 12.94, down 3.1% from the last trade before it, then down 11.1% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 11:54 a.m.: down 13.9% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 11.41, down 0.8% from the last trade before it, then up 10.0% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 12:04 p.m.: up 9.1% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 12.55, unchanged from the last trade before it, then up 8.8% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 12:15 p.m.: down 7.9% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 14.39, up 7.8% from the last trade before it, then down 13.1% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 12:21 p.m.: down 6.3% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 12.48, down 0.2% from the last trade before it, then down 9.9% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 12:32 p.m.: up 6.0% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 12.99, up 1.0% from the last trade before it, then down 12.9% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 12:52 p.m.: up 10.7% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 12.21, down 6.5% from the last trade before it, then up 6.5% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 1:03 p.m.: down 6.4% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 12.40, down 1.1% from the last trade before it, then up 0.2% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 1:15 p.m.: up 14.6% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 13.69, down 2.8% from the last trade before it, then down 5.4% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 1:27 p.m.: up 17.7% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 15.00, up 2.0% from the last trade before it, then down 8.3% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 1:43 p.m.: up 16.4% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 15.00, down 2.3% from the last trade before it, then up 19.2% over the next 5 minutes.
In our recaps, this is the only day WFCF met the small-cap rule.

Halts

Halted	Resumed	Length	Reason in the feed
11:33 a.m.	11:43 a.m.	10 min 1 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
11:47 a.m.	11:52 a.m.	5 min 0 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
11:54 a.m.	11:59 a.m.	5 min 0 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
12:04 p.m.	12:09 p.m.	5 min 0 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
12:15 p.m.	12:20 p.m.	5 min 0 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
12:21 p.m.	12:26 p.m.	5 min 0 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
12:32 p.m.	12:37 p.m.	5 min 0 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
12:52 p.m.	12:57 p.m.	5 min 0 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
1:03 p.m.	1:08 p.m.	5 min 0 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
1:15 p.m.	1:20 p.m.	5 min 0 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
1:27 p.m.	1:32 p.m.	5 min 0 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
1:43 p.m.	1:48 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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