Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on October 8, 2026
WORX on October 8, 2026: why it ran
On October 8, 2026, WORX opened down 4.5% from the previous close of 5.75 and reached 5.90 at 4:06 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.
- Previous close
- 5.75
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 5.49
- Gap at the open
- down 4.5%
- Pre-market high
- 5.90 at 4:06 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.90 at 4:06 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.85
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 7.19 at 4:53 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 4.20
- Volume
- 1.59 million
- Relative volume
- 294.2x
- Float
- 439,789 shares, from filings as of October 8, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 439,789
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for WORX published between the previous session's close and the first minute WORX traded 20% above it, at 4:52 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:06 a.m. | Pre-market high, 5.90 |
| 4:06 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 5.90 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 5.49, down 4.5% from the previous close |
| 12:14 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 12:24 p.m. |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 4.20, 28.8% below the high |
| 4:52 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 5.75 |
| 4:55 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 439,789 shares |
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: 3,236 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,637 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 1.58 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 439,789 shares: past it once at 4:55 p.m., twice at 5:11 p.m., three times at 6:05 p.m.
- The halt at 12:14 p.m.: up 12.6% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 4.55, up 3.6% from the last trade before it, then down 1.1% over the next 5 minutes.
- In our recaps, this is the only day WORX met the small-cap rule.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:14 p.m. | 12:24 p.m. | 10 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.
Trade this day
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