Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 9, 2026
WFF, October 9: a wall at $4.00, 11 halts, and $19.44
WFF opened near its previous close, then ran to $19.44 through eleven halts during the session.
What happened
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The wall at $4.00
With no news, WFF opened at $2.08. It ran to $4.18 after its first halt, then slid to $1.75 by 11:10. An 80K-share ask wall sat at $4.00 from 10:01.
Stop It's 11:58. WFF is at $3.98. An ask wall at $4.00 peaked at 80,179 shares seconds ago and has been there since 10:01. Would you buy here?
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.
Buyers ate the wall. At 11:58:19, 60K shares traded at $4.00 in under a second. The break did not hold. It was back to $3.02 by 12:01.
A halt, then a chase
After noon, halts kept lifting it. At 1:59:56 it reopened 14% higher, at $9.90.
Stop It's 2:00. WFF is at $10.23. It reopened from its halt at 1:59:56 at $9.90 and spiked to $11.49 within seconds. It was $6.62 thirteen minutes ago. Would you chase it here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:57 p.m. and stop at 2:00 p.m. ET for your call.
It fell to $8.88 a minute later, 23% below the spike.
The top and the close
The 3:08:34 reopen at $16.20 led to the top. It hit $19.44 that minute, then faded and closed at $12.20.
What to take from it: On this day, buying right after a reopen cost far more than the screen showed.
Replay WFF's day
It starts at 12:38 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 12:41 p.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 1.5% at $2.08, then ran from the open to the high of $19.44 in 338 minutes through 10 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:17 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.16 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.08, up 1.5% from the previous close | |
| 9:38 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.05 | |
| 3:08 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $19.44 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $12.20, 37.2% 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
- $2.05
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.08
- Gap at the open
- +1.5%
- Pre-market high
- $2.16 at 4:17 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $19.44 at 3:08 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.75
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $12.20
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +495.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $15.57 at 4:04 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 58.87 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 8.25 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 404.2×
- Float
- not available
- Shares outstanding
- not available
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 6,950 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 2.37 million in the first 30 minutes (4%), and 64.74 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (96%).
- 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 (11)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:39 a.m. | 9:55 a.m. | 15 min 53 s | up 26.4% | $3.20, up 19.4% | up 20.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:44 a.m. | 11:49 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 22.8% | $3.22, down 9.6% | up 14.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:05 p.m. | 12:15 p.m. | 10 min 1 s | up 10.1% | $4.49, up 14.8% | down 3.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:43 p.m. | 12:48 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 25.1% | $4.54, down 8.1% | up 8.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:54 p.m. | 12:59 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 19.7% | $6.39, up 3.2% | up 6.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:49 p.m. | 1:59 p.m. | 10 min 5 s | up 18.3% | $9.90, up 14.1% | up 5.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:04 p.m. | 2:09 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 16.6% | $12.68, up 5.0% | down 1.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:19 p.m. | 2:24 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 23.2% | $9.84, down 3.1% | up 18.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:27 p.m. | 2:42 p.m. | 15 min 31 s | up 15.2% | $13.80, up 18.0% | down 7.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:58 p.m. | 3:08 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 24.7% | $16.20, up 10.0% | down 10.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 3:09 p.m. | 3:14 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 1.8% | $14.89, up 3.0% | up 1.8% | 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
Replay WFF on October 9, 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.