Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 13, 2026
YXT, August 13: a 7:00 headline, a $7.57 spike, and a faded day
YXT opened up 16% and held near that level into the close.
What happened
The 7:00 headline
Six-month results came out at 7:00 a.m. YXT sat near $4.70 on thin volume, above the $4.53 prior close.
Stop It's 7:49. YXT is at $4.99, the open of this minute. The previous close was $4.53, and the six-month results headline came out at 7:00. The stock reached $5.50 at 7:34, then fell to $4.75 at 7:43 and has stayed between $4.91 and $4.98 since. Volume in those minutes is thin: the last full minute traded 126 shares. Would you buy here?
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The spike to $7.57
Buyers rushed in. It hit $5.90 by 7:57, then $7.57 at 8:04, the day's high, on 351K shares that minute.
Sellers waited above. A 50K-share ask wall sat at $8.27. Walls at $7.52 and $6.99 were pulled at 8:06:02 and 8:14:30. By 8:11 it was at $5.12, 32% off the high.
The open and close
The fade went on. It opened at $5.27 and fell to $4.37 by 9:49. Later pushes topped out at $5.70. It closed at $5.61, up 24%.
What to take from it: This news spike gave back a third of its price within seven minutes.
Replay YXT's day
It starts at 7:46 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 7:49 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
Gap and hold. It gapped up 16.3% to $5.27 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $5.61 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:03 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.53 | |
| 8:04 a.m. | Pre-market high, $7.57 | |
| 8:04 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $7.57 | |
| 8:05 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 977,116 shares | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.27, up 16.3% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.61, 25.9% 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
- $4.53
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.27
- Gap at the open
- +16.3%
- Pre-market high
- $7.57 at 8:04 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.57 at 8:04 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.37
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.61
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +23.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.80 at 5:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.22 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 98,228
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 1.9×
- Float
- 977,116 shares, from filings as of August 13, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 6.11 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2.58 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (78%), 187,776 in the first 30 minutes (6%), and 549,272 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (17%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 977,116 shares: past it once at 8:05 a.m., twice at 8:10 a.m., three times at 11:35 a.m.
- Other days YXT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 5, 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 YXT 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.
Trade this day
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