Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026
WETO, August 17: seven halts and $29.47
WETO opened up 23%, ran to $29.47 through seven halts, and held most of the move into the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $10.73, on 1.3M shares.
The open
It opened up 23%, at $10.14. It ran to $29.47 by 2:50 p.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it seven times, from 9:35 a.m. to 2:31 p.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 9:35 a.m.: 15% above the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $24.79, 16% under its high.
What to take from it: A gap that holds above its open can keep going: this one held most of its move to the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and go. It gapped up 23.2% to $10.14 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $29.47 in 320 minutes through 7 halts, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 24% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $8.23 |
| 7:10 a.m. | Pre-market high, $10.73 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $10.14, up 23.2% from the previous close |
| 9:56 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.66 million shares |
| 2:50 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $29.47 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $24.79, 15.9% 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
- $8.23
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $10.14
- Gap at the open
- +23.2%
- Pre-market high
- $10.73 at 7:10 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $29.47 at 2:50 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.62
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $24.79
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +201.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $42.98 at 4:47 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 12.29 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.82 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.9×
- Float
- 2.66 million shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.82 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.30 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (8%), 1.74 million in the first 30 minutes (11%), and 13.08 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (81%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.66 million shares: past it once at 9:56 a.m., twice at 10:35 a.m., three times at 1:09 p.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 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 (7)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:35 a.m. | 9:45 a.m. | 10 min 5 s | up 13.1% | $13.14, up 14.7% | up 13.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:48 a.m. | 9:53 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 29.8% | $14.25, down 4.2% | up 12.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:19 a.m. | 10:24 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 16.1% | $19.38, down 1.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:24 a.m. | 10:29 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 8.7% | $22.00, up 3.2% | down 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:30 a.m. | 10:35 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 7.1% | $19.00, down 4.0% | down 0.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:00 p.m. | 2:10 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 10.7% | $24.49, up 9.9% | down 0.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:31 p.m. | 2:36 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 7.3% | $26.35, up 0.1% | up 6.3% | 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.
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