Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 10, 2026
WAFU, August 10: a run to $1.56
WAFU opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.48 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.56, on 63K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.32. It ran to $1.48 by 11:25 a.m.
The close
It closed at $1.41, 10% 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 down 8.3% at $1.32, then ran from the open to the high of $1.48 in 115 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:08 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.56 |
| 7:08 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.56 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.32, down 8.3% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.41, 9.6% below the high |
| 4:00 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.44 |
| 4:06 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.43 million shares |
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.
- $1.32
- Gap at the open
- −8.3%
- Pre-market high
- $1.56 at 7:08 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.56 at 7:08 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.25
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.41
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −2.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.45 at 5:58 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 126,147
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 11.42 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 42.1×
- Float
- 1.43 million shares, from filings as of August 10, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.92 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 63,057 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 7,834 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 11.48 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.43 million shares: past it once at 4:06 p.m., twice at 4:13 p.m., three times at 4:29 p.m.
- Other days WAFU met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on September 23, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners, after-hours movers. 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for WAFU 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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