Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 7, 2026
YJ, August 7: 13 halts, a run to $13.98, and a $3.62 close
YJ opened near its previous close, then ran to $13.98 through 13 halts during the session.
What happened
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The halt at $10.95
YJ closed the day before at $1.35, then ran into halt after halt from 9:48. At 11:43:09 it was halted at $10.95. During the halt, a 95K-share ask wall sat at $12.00.
Stop It's 11:58. YJ has been halted since 11:43 with the last trade at $10.95. A wall of about 95,000 shares has been offered at $12.00. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:55 a.m. and stop at 11:58 a.m. ET for your call.
The wall was pulled at 11:58:30. A second later it reopened at $13.15, 20% higher, and hit $13.98 that minute.
Down to the $3.71 wall
The top did not hold. By 1:22 it had slid to $3.71, where an 86K-share ask wall sat when it was halted at 1:22:58.
Stop It's 1:28. YJ reopened from a halt at 1:27:58 and is trading near $3.60. A wall of about 86,000 shares was offered at $3.71 earlier. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:25 p.m. and stop at 1:28 p.m. ET for your call.
At 1:28:05, 12,219 shares traded at $3.71 and the wall was eaten. It reached $4.90 by 1:29, then faded.
The close
It closed at $3.62, after 13 halts and about 21.6M shares, nine times the float.
What to take from it: On YJ, each big wall seen around a halt was gone within seconds of the reopen.
Replay YJ's day
It starts at 9:42 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:45 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 2.2% at $1.38, then ran from the open to the high of $13.98 in 148 minutes through 8 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:39 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.49 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.38, up 2.2% from the previous close | |
| 9:49 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.35 | |
| 10:58 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.51 million shares | |
| 11:58 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $13.98 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.62, 74.1% 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
- $1.35
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.38
- Gap at the open
- +2.2%
- Pre-market high
- $1.49 at 7:39 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $13.98 at 11:58 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.25
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.62
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +168.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.79 at 4:04 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 21.64 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.20 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 2.51 million shares, from filings as of August 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.93 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 8,238 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 127,277 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 23.70 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.51 million shares: past it once at 10:58 a.m., twice at 11:14 a.m., three times at 11:27 a.m.
- Other days YJ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 13, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: price $2 to $20, up 10% or more, relative volume 5× or more, float under 20 million shares, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (13)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:55 a.m. | 10:00 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 24.4% | $2.10, up 0.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 10:00 a.m. | 10:21 a.m. | 20 min 45 s | up 20.6% | $3.27, up 29.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 10:21 a.m. | 10:26 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 57.1% | $3.97, up 0.3% | down 19.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:27 a.m. | 10:32 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 19.7% | $3.32, up 4.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 10:32 a.m. | 10:57 a.m. | 25 min 1 s | up 25.2% | $5.00, up 25.6% | up 27.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:59 a.m. | 11:04 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 60.1% | $5.64, down 11.5% | up 12.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:06 a.m. | 11:11 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 0.2% | $6.57, up 3.3% | down 3.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:43 a.m. | 11:58 a.m. | 15 min 22 s | up 29.1% | $13.15, up 20.1% | down 20.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:59 a.m. | 12:04 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 4.9% | $11.00, up 5.7% | down 20.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:05 p.m. | 12:15 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 15.5% | $8.53, down 3.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 12:15 p.m. | 12:25 p.m. | 10 min 2 s | down 22.5% | $5.80, down 15.0% | up 21.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:22 p.m. | 1:27 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 29.1% | $3.59, down 3.2% | up 36.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:30 p.m. | 1:35 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 32.1% | $4.75, down 3.1% | down 11.8% | 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.
Trade this day
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