Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 14, 2026
WETO, August 14: the $11.00 wall and four halts
WETO more than doubled at the open, ran to $12.95 through four halts, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
The $11.00 wall
There was no news, yet WETO ran from a $3.61 close to $11.31 by 7:00 a.m. Then a 32K-share offer sat at $11.00, and the stock worked back toward it.
Stop It's 7:43. WETO is at $10.24. An ask wall has sat at $11.00 since 7:09, 32,046 shares at its biggest. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 7:40 a.m. and stop at 7:43 a.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate the wall in about a second. That minute hit $11.76, the pre-market high.
The halt that jumped
After the open it slipped, then climbed through the 9:40s. A 29K-share offer at $13.50 sat above.
Stop It's 9:46. WETO is at $9.52. An ask wall at $13.50 has been on the book since 9:14, 28,639 shares at its biggest. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:43 a.m. and stop at 9:46 a.m. ET for your call.
It was halted at 9:46:47 at $10.37. The $13.50 wall was pulled during the halt. It reopened at 9:56:59 14% higher, at $11.77, and hit $12.95, the day's high, that minute.
The fade
The next push stopped lower, at $12.33. It closed at $8.21, 37% below the high.
What to take from it: On this day the wall and the halt both broke upward, but the top came in the minute of the reopen.
Replay WETO's day
It starts at 9:38 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:41 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, run and fade. It gapped up 194.7% to $10.64 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $12.95 in 26 minutes through two halts, then gave back 205% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $8.21, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:54 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.61 | |
| 5:30 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.66 million shares | |
| 7:43 a.m. | Pre-market high, $11.76 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $10.64, up 194.7% from the previous close | |
| 9:56 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $12.95 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $8.21, 36.6% 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
- $3.61
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $10.64
- Gap at the open
- +194.7%
- Pre-market high
- $11.76 at 7:43 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $12.95 at 9:56 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.60
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $8.21
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +127.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $11.33 at 5:40 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 33.40 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.76 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 79.8×
- Float
- 2.66 million shares, from filings as of August 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.82 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 19.90 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (54%), 2.98 million in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 14.27 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (38%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.66 million shares: past it once at 5:30 a.m., twice at 5:54 a.m., three times at 6:44 a.m.
- Other days WETO met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 15, the latest on November 2, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners, after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 (4)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:33 a.m. | 9:38 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 14.0% | $8.82, down 2.2% | up 3.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:46 a.m. | 9:56 a.m. | 10 min 11 s | up 9.6% | $11.77, up 13.5% | down 0.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:02 a.m. | 11:07 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 17.5% | $7.72, unchanged | down 0.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:17 p.m. | 2:22 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 10.5% | $9.10, up 6.2% | down 5.5% | 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 WETO on August 14, 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.