Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026
WFF, August 17: seven halts and $10.71
WFF opened near its previous close, then ran to $10.71 through seven halts during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.52, on 12K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.50. It ran to $10.71 by 12:08 p.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it seven times, from 10:33 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 10:33 a.m.: 21% above the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $2.00, 81% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 4.2% at $1.50, then ran from the open to the high of $10.71 in 158 minutes through 7 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:16 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.52 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.50, up 4.2% from the previous close |
| 10:32 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.44 |
| 12:08 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $10.71 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.00, 81.3% 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
- $1.44
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.50
- Gap at the open
- +4.2%
- Pre-market high
- $1.52 at 4:16 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $10.71 at 12:08 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.45
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.00
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +38.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.57 at 5:44 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 30.42 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.12 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 34.1×
- Float
- 41.92 million shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 45.36 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 12,165 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 2,839 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 33.52 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 (7)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:33 a.m. | 10:43 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 26.1% | $2.45, up 20.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:43 a.m. | 10:53 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 44.8% | $3.20, up 8.8% | up 12.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:55 a.m. | 11:05 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 22.1% | $3.59, unchanged | up 13.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 11:12 a.m. | 11:17 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 20.5% | $5.00, up 4.8% | up 11.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 11:31 a.m. | 11:41 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 20.9% | $5.00, up 2.2% | unchanged | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 11:46 a.m. | 11:56 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 23.0% | $6.40, up 9.8% | up 28.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:00 p.m. | 12:05 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 40.7% | $8.00, down 2.4% | up 18.0% | 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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