Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 7, 2026
WFF, August 7: twelve halts and $10.53
WFF opened near its previous close, ran to $10.53 through twelve halts, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.72. It ran to $10.53 by 2:21 p.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it twelve times, from 1:13 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 2:10 p.m.: 20% below the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $2.32, 78% under its high.
What to take from it: The run did not hold: it finished below where it opened.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run and fade. It opened up 1.5% at $2.72, then ran from the open to the high of $10.53 in 291 minutes through 7 halts, and gave it all back: it traded at $2.32 at 4:00 p.m., below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.72, up 1.5% from the previous close |
| 12:06 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.68 |
| 2:21 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $10.53 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.32, 78.0% below the high |
The shape's name comes from a fixed rule, not a judgement (how shapes are named). Halts are in the halt table below.
The day in numbers
- Previous close
- $2.68
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.72
- Gap at the open
- +1.5%
- Pre-market high
- not available
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $10.53 at 2:21 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.72
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.32
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −13.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.63 at 4:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 14.50 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.19 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 41.92 million shares, from filings as of August 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 45.36 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 0 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 375 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 15.69 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days WFF met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, the latest on November 3, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it was in play on the intraday runners: up 30% or more on $3 million or more really traded, outside the small-cap rule's price, relative volume or float, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (12)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:13 p.m. | 1:23 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 16.5% | $3.60, up 8.4% | up 6.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:33 p.m. | 1:38 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 12.9% | $3.74, down 16.1% | up 16.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:44 p.m. | 1:49 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 20.6% | $3.43, up 0.9% | up 38.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:52 p.m. | 2:03 p.m. | 10 min 21 s | up 40.0% | $5.45, up 14.5% | up 33.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:04 p.m. | 2:09 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 53.2% | $7.65, up 4.9% | up 20.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:10 p.m. | 2:15 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 25.9% | $7.30, down 20.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:15 p.m. | 2:20 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 4.6% | $8.00, down 8.7% | down 3.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:30 p.m. | 2:35 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 17.5% | $7.86, up 6.8% | down 7.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:42 p.m. | 2:47 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 19.8% | $5.61, down 1.9% | up 32.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:52 p.m. | 3:02 p.m. | 10 min 1 s | up 37.8% | $9.00, up 12.2% | down 30.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:08 p.m. | 3:13 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 17.3% | $6.31, up 5.9% | down 27.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 3:30 p.m. | 3:35 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 23.5% | $2.64, up 3.9% | down 27.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
Halt bands that day: the LULD plan's Amendment 18 rules (what that means, LULD calculator).
How we read the data, name a day's shape and pick the stocks: methodology.
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