Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 6, 2026
WHLR, October 6: a run to $2.14
WHLR opened near its previous close, ran to $1.35, 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 $2.14, on 3.7M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.16. It ran to $1.35 by 10:22 a.m.
The close
It closed at $0.9441, 56% 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 6.4% at $1.16, then ran from the open to the high of $1.35 in 52 minutes, and gave it all back: it traded at $0.9441 at 4:00 p.m., below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.09 |
| 4:03 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.14 |
| 4:03 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.14 |
| 4:42 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.44 million shares |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.16, up 6.4% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.9441, 55.9% 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
- $1.09
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.16
- Gap at the open
- +6.4%
- Pre-market high
- $2.14 at 4:03 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.14 at 4:03 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.8422
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.9441
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −13.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.24 at 4:49 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.71 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 880,311
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.0×
- Float
- 1.44 million shares, from filings as of October 6, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.51 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3.68 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (56%), 352,865 in the first 30 minutes (5%), and 2.55 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (39%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.44 million shares: past it once at 4:42 a.m., twice at 7:24 a.m., three times at 10:38 a.m.
- Other days WHLR met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on September 25, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for WHLR 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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