Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 27, 2026
YMT, August 27: two walls, three halts, and $4.95
YMT opened near its previous close, ran to $3.45 through three halts, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
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A spike before the bell
No news was listed, but the tiny 21K-share float traded many times over before the bell. It hit $4.95 in the 9:06 minute, then closed that minute at $3.80.
Stop It's 9:07. YMT is at $3.73, down from the $4.95 high a minute ago. A large block of shares has just appeared for sale at $3.90, above the price. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:04 a.m. and stop at 9:07 a.m. ET for your call.
That wall was never tested. It was pulled at 9:08:15 with only 680 shares traded at $3.90.
Three halts
It opened at $3.05, below the $3.23 prior close, and was halted at 9:32:35.
The second halt reopened 11% higher, at $3.09, and the third came at 9:48:26 at $3.40.
Stop It's 9:53. YMT is halted at $3.40, its last trade before the pause. Would you buy when it reopens?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:50 a.m. and stop at 9:53 a.m. ET for your call.
That reopen gave it all back. It opened at $3.40 and fell to $3.06 within the minute.
Fade into the close
The day only faded from there. It hit $2.48 at 3:16 p.m. and closed at $2.79, 44% below the high.
What to take from it: This spike and its walls were gone by the close.
Replay YMT's day
It starts at 9:28 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:31 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 and fade. It opened down 5.6% at $3.05, then ran from the open to the high of $3.45 in 23 minutes through 3 halts, and gave it all back: it traded at $2.79 at 4:00 p.m., below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:02 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.23 | |
| 9:02 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 20,875 shares | |
| 9:06 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.95 | |
| 9:06 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.95 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.05, down 5.6% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.79, 43.6% 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
- $3.23
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.05
- Gap at the open
- −5.6%
- Pre-market high
- $4.95 at 9:06 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.95 at 9:06 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.48
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.79
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −13.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.19 at 6:59 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.64 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 60,974
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.3×
- Float
- 20,875 shares, from filings as of August 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.35 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.20 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (70%), 180,745 in the first 30 minutes (11%), and 320,853 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (19%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 20,875 shares: past it once at 9:02 a.m., twice at 9:03 a.m., three times at 9:03 a.m.
- Other days YMT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 29, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 (3)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:32 a.m. | 9:37 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 10.9% | $2.62, down 5.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 9:37 a.m. | 9:47 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 0.4% | $3.09, up 11.2% | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:48 a.m. | 9:53 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 22.3% | $3.40, unchanged | down 5.3% | 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.
Trade this day
Replay YMT on August 27, 2026 in Hindsight Markets: the real tape, the order book and the halts, on a clock you control, and see where your orders would have filled.