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WFF on October 9, 2026: why it ran

Published October 12, 2026 · By Hindsight Markets

On October 9, 2026, WFF opened up 1.5% from the previous close of 2.05 and reached 19.44 at 3:08 p.m. ET. The exchange halted it 11 times.

Previous close: 2.05
Open, 9:30 a.m.: 2.08
Gap at the open: up 1.5%
Pre-market high: 2.16 at 4:17 a.m.
High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.: 19.44 at 3:08 p.m.
Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.: 1.75
After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.: 15.57 at 4:04 p.m.
Last trade before 4:00 p.m.: 12.20
Volume: 67.13 million
Relative volume: 404.2x
Float: not available
Shares outstanding: not available
Halts: 11

WFF on October 9, 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 WFF's day

It starts at 12:38 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 12:41 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: the afternoon
Round-number break
Halt run
Halted 11 times
Lower high after the top
After-hours drop

Before the open

On October 8, WFF traded between $2.05 and $2.18 and closed at $2.05. Our data shows no news for the 9th.

The first trade on the 9th was 100 shares at $2.16 at 4:17 a.m. That was also the pre-market high. Only 6,950 shares traded before the bell. It opened at $2.08, up 1% from the previous close.

The first halt and the fade

At 9:37 it started to move, from $2.17. By 9:39 it was at $2.68, and at 9:39:21 it was halted (a volatility pause).

It reopened at 9:55:14 at $3.20, 19% above where it stopped. The first print was 114,161 shares at $3.20. It hit $4.18 at 9:59.

Then it sold off for more than an hour. It was at $2.91 by 10:04 and $2.59 by 10:30. Big ask walls sat above the price on the way down. 201,680 shares appeared at $2.60 at 10:36 and were pulled at 10:38. 206,030 shares at $2.40 peaked at 10:46 and were pulled at 11:00.

The low so far was $1.75 at 11:10, below the $2.05 previous close and down 58% from $4.18.

The wall at $4.00

From 10:01 on, an ask wall sat at exactly $4.00. It peaked at 80,179 shares at 11:57:42.

From the $1.75 low the stock climbed back to $3.56 by 11:44. Then at 11:44:27 it was halted. It reopened at 11:49:27 at $3.22, below where it stopped, with a 71,225-share print at that price. It was back near $3.99 by 11:57.

Stop It's 11:58. WFF is at $3.98. An ask wall at $4.00 peaked at 80,179 shares seconds ago and has been there since 10:01. Would you buy here?

Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 11:58 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 11:55 a.m. ET.

At 11:58:19 trades at $4.00 began. In under a second, 59,870 shares traded at exactly $4.00 and the wall was gone. It wasn't pulled. Buyers ate it. One buy order of 117,956 shares went from $3.96 to $4.19 across 24 price levels.

The break didn't hold. The 11:58 minute reached $4.25, but by 12:01 it was down to $3.02.

Halts after noon

At 12:05:49 it was halted with the last trade at $3.91. It reopened at 12:15:50 at $4.49, 15% higher, on a 188,078-share print.

It was halted again at 12:43:40 (last trade $4.94) and reopened at 12:48:40 at $4.54, lower this time. A third halt at 12:54:36 (last trade $6.19) reopened at 12:59:36 at $6.39. Big buy orders swept through the book at 12:43 and 12:48.

It reached $7.68 at 1:15 p.m. and $9.68 at 1:30 p.m. Then it slid to $6.62 at 1:47 p.m., down 32%.

At 1:49 p.m. it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $8.68. It reopened at 1:59:56 at $9.90, 14% higher, on a 193,643-share print.

Stop It's 2:00. WFF is at $10.23. It reopened from its halt at 1:59:56 at $9.90 and spiked to $11.49 within seconds. It was $6.62 thirteen minutes ago. Would you chase it here?

Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 2:00 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 1:57 p.m. ET.

The 2:00 minute got back to $11.48, just under the $11.49 spike, then it fell to $8.88 at 2:01 p.m., down 23% from $11.49.

The top at $19.44

At 2:04:32 it was halted with the last trade at $12.08. It reopened at 2:09:32 at $12.68. It reached $14.56 at 2:15, then fell to $9.26 at 2:25 p.m., down 36%.

At 2:27 p.m. it was halted again with the last trade at $11.69. It sat halted for 15 minutes and reopened at 2:42:42 at $13.80, 18% higher.

It fell to $10.66 by 2:50, then climbed back to $14.73 at 2:58. At 2:58:34 it was halted with the last trade at $14.73. It reopened at 3:08:34 at $16.20, 10% higher, on a 145,368-share print.

In that same minute it hit $19.44, the high of the day, up 848% from the $2.05 previous close. By the 3:09 minute it was down to $14.46. At 3:09:35 it was halted again. It reopened at 3:14:35 at $14.89.

The close and after hours

It tried once more. At 3:18 p.m. it pushed to $16.00, a lower high under the $19.44 top. Then it faded: $10.33 at 3:29, and $8.26 at 3:37. At 3:45 an ask wall appeared at $13.88 and peaked at 114,589 shares at 3:46. It bounced to $13.70 at 3:53. It closed at $12.20.

By the close, 58.87 million shares had traded, more than the 45.36 million shares outstanding, at 404 times its normal volume. It was halted 11 times.

After hours it traded as high as $15.57 at 4:04 p.m. It was at $12.64 at 4:59, then dropped to $10.09 in the 5:00 minute. It fell to $8.06 by 5:24 p.m., down 48% from $15.57. Another 8.25 million shares traded after hours.

What to take from it

A big ask wall at a round number is a level, not a ceiling. The $4.00 wall was eaten in under a second. But the move did not hold.
Right after a halt reopen, the fill can cost far more than the screen says. On this day the same 5,000-share order cost $488 over the screen at 2:42 and $814 over at 3:14.
After the top, the next push stopped lower. $19.44 at 3:08 p.m., then $16.00 at 3:18 p.m. And after hours can undo the day: $15.57 at 4:04 p.m., $8.06 by 5:24 p.m.

Open this recap on its own page

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 1.5% at 2.08, then ran from the open to the high of 19.44 in 338 minutes through 10 halts.

Time (ET)	What happened	Watch it
4:17 a.m.	Pre-market high, 2.16
9:30 a.m.	The open: 2.08, up 1.5% from the previous close
9:38 a.m.	First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.05
9:39 a.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 9:55 a.m.
11:44 a.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 11:49 a.m.
12:05 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 12:15 p.m.
12:43 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 12:48 p.m.
12:54 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 12:59 p.m.
1:49 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 1:59 p.m.
2:04 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 2:09 p.m.
2:19 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 2:24 p.m.
2:27 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 2:42 p.m.
2:58 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 3:08 p.m.
3:08 p.m.	High of the day to the close, 19.44
3:09 p.m.	Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 3:14 p.m.
3:59 p.m.	Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 12.20, 37.2% 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: 6,950 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 2.37 million in the first 30 minutes (4%), and 64.74 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (96%).
The halt at 9:39 a.m.: up 26.4% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.20, up 19.4% from the last trade before it, then up 20.3% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 11:44 a.m.: up 22.8% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.22, down 9.6% from the last trade before it, then up 14.9% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 12:05 p.m.: up 10.1% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 4.49, up 14.8% from the last trade before it, then down 3.1% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 12:43 p.m.: up 25.1% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 4.54, down 8.1% from the last trade before it, then up 8.8% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 12:54 p.m.: up 19.7% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 6.39, up 3.2% from the last trade before it, then up 6.6% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 1:49 p.m.: up 18.3% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 9.90, up 14.1% from the last trade before it, then up 5.1% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 2:04 p.m.: up 16.6% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 12.68, up 5.0% from the last trade before it, then down 1.4% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 2:19 p.m.: down 23.2% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 9.84, down 3.1% from the last trade before it, then up 18.8% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 2:27 p.m.: up 15.2% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 13.80, up 18.0% from the last trade before it, then down 7.4% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 2:58 p.m.: up 24.7% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 16.20, up 10.0% from the last trade before it, then down 10.7% over the next 5 minutes.
The halt at 3:09 p.m.: down 1.8% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 14.89, up 3.0% from the last trade before it, then up 1.8% over the next 5 minutes.
Other days WFF met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on September 25, 2026.

Halts

Halted	Resumed	Length	Reason in the feed
9:39 a.m.	9:55 a.m.	15 min 53 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
11:44 a.m.	11:49 a.m.	5 min 0 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
12:05 p.m.	12:15 p.m.	10 min 1 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
12:43 p.m.	12:48 p.m.	5 min 0 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
12:54 p.m.	12:59 p.m.	5 min 0 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
1:49 p.m.	1:59 p.m.	10 min 5 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
2:04 p.m.	2:09 p.m.	5 min 0 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
2:19 p.m.	2:24 p.m.	5 min 0 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
2:27 p.m.	2:42 p.m.	15 min 31 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
2:58 p.m.	3:08 p.m.	10 min 0 s	LULD pause (limit up-limit down)
3:09 p.m.	3:14 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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