Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 12, 2026
WCT, August 12: a quiet morning, then two halts
WCT opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.84 through two halts during the session.
What happened
The run to the first halt
There was no news, and the stock sat near $0.86 until 10:59. Just before the first halt, a 128K-share bid built at $1.35. It halted at 11:31:34 and reopened at $1.50.
Stop It's 11:37. WCT is at $1.64. It reopened a minute ago at $1.50 and has already touched $1.75. A big bid has sat at $1.35 since before the halt. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:34 a.m. and stop at 11:37 a.m. ET for your call.
A sell sweep dropped it to $1.35. Only 10,268 shares traded there before the bid was pulled at 11:37:17. The minute still closed at $1.70.
Wide swings
The swings stayed wide: $1.77 at 11:42, then $1.42 a minute later.
Stop It's 11:46. WCT is at $1.59. Four minutes ago it touched $1.77 and it has since pulled back. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:43 a.m. and stop at 11:46 a.m. ET for your call.
The high was $1.84 that minute. It halted at 11:50:42 and reopened at 11:55:42 at $1.26.
The fade
It closed at $1.03, 44% under the high but above the $0.86 prior close. About 11M shares traded, the float about 6 times.
What to take from it: On WCT, the big walls near each halt vanished within minutes, and buying right at the reopens cost more than the screen showed.
Replay WCT's day
It starts at 11:19 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 11:22 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. It opened down 0.7% at $0.8556, then ran from the open to the high of $1.84 in 136 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:50 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.8537 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.8556, down 0.7% from the previous close | |
| 11:09 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.8616 | |
| 11:38 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.97 million shares | |
| 11:46 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.84 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.03, 44.0% 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
- $0.8616
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.8556
- Gap at the open
- −0.7%
- Pre-market high
- $0.8537 at 7:50 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.84 at 11:46 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.8501
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.03
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +19.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.08 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 11.19 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 151,813
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 216.0×
- Float
- 1.97 million shares, from filings as of August 12, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.07 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 111 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 26 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 11.34 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.97 million shares: past it once at 11:38 a.m., twice at 11:42 a.m., three times at 11:48 a.m.
- Other days WCT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 15, 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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:31 a.m. | 11:36 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 19.5% | $1.50, up 11.1% | up 6.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:50 a.m. | 11:55 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 15.7% | $1.26, down 6.0% | down 10.3% | 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 WCT on August 12, 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.