Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026
WOK, August 17: a run to $3.18
WOK opened up 13%, ran to $3.18, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.68, on 323K shares.
The open
It opened up 13%, at $2.50. It ran to $3.18 by 9:52 a.m.
The close
It closed at $2.32, 27% under its high.
What to take from it: The whole move was given back: it finished below the price it opened at.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 12.6% to $2.50 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $3.18 in 22 minutes, then gave back 126% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $2.32, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:23 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.22 |
| 4:23 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.68 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.50, up 12.6% from the previous close |
| 9:52 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.18 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.32, 27.0% 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
- $2.22
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.50
- Gap at the open
- +12.6%
- Pre-market high
- $2.68 at 4:23 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.18 at 9:52 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.26
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.32
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +4.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.37 at 4:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.41 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 38,946
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 10.3×
- Float
- 2.42 million shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.42 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 322,692 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (22%), 675,926 in the first 30 minutes (47%), and 453,946 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (31%).
- Other days WOK met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 11, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for WOK that day.
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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