Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 31, 2026
WETO, August 31: one halt, $14.00, and a roughly 35,000-share bid that kept getting pulled
WETO opened up 26%, ran to $14.00 through one halt, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
The halt
WETO opened at $7.21, then was halted at 9:42 at $9.37.
Stop It's 9:47. WETO was halted at 9:42 with the last trade at $9.37, and the five-minute pause is about to end. The stock is at $9.37. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:44 a.m. and stop at 9:47 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at $9.37, then swung from $8.49 to $10.07.
A range under $13.58
It ran to $13.43 by 10:44.
Stop It's 10:57. WETO is at $12.99 and has been between $12.10 and $13.58 for 13 minutes. The high of the day so far is $13.58. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:54 a.m. and stop at 10:57 a.m. ET for your call.
A big buy sweep hit at 10:57:33, and $14.00 printed the next minute. It was $12.90 two minutes later.
The moving bid
From 11:05, a 35K-share bid sat far below price, pulled and reset each time.
Stop It's 11:54. WETO is at $11.66, quiet for the last 14 minutes between $11.43 and $11.84. A bid of about 35,000 shares sits at $9.13, well below the market. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:51 a.m. and stop at 11:54 a.m. ET for your call.
A sell sweep at 11:54:43 cut it to $10.81. The bid was pulled at 12:09:47, untouched. It closed at $5.50.
What to take from it: The big bid far below never got hit; it kept moving while the stock fell 61% from its high.
Replay WETO's day
It starts at 9:30 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:33 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 26.0% to $7.21 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $14.00 in 88 minutes through a halt, then gave back 125% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $5.50, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.72 | |
| 8:53 a.m. | Pre-market high, $8.74 | |
| 8:53 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 914,205 shares | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $7.21, up 26.0% from the previous close | |
| 10:58 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $14.00 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.50, 60.7% 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
- $5.72
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $7.21
- Gap at the open
- +26.0%
- Pre-market high
- $8.74 at 8:53 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $14.00 at 10:58 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.42
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.50
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −3.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $7.14 at 4:16 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 15.60 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.59 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 5.4×
- Float
- 914,205 shares, from filings as of August 31, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.08 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.36 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (8%), 2.69 million in the first 30 minutes (16%), and 13.14 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (76%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 914,205 shares: past it once at 8:53 a.m., twice at 9:39 a.m., three times at 9:50 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 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:42 a.m. | 9:47 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 12.4% | $9.37, unchanged | up 7.4% | 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 31, 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.