Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 31, 2026
YDDL, August 31: a gap that faded
YDDL opened up 47%, then faded below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $4.20, on 14M shares.
The open
It opened up 47%, at $2.40.
The close
It closed at $2.24, 47% under its high.
What to take from it: A big gap is not a trend. This one traded below its open by the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and fade. It gapped up 47.2% to $2.40 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $2.24.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.63 |
| 5:23 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.20 |
| 5:23 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.20 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.40, up 47.2% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.24, 46.7% 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
- $1.63
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.40
- Gap at the open
- +47.2%
- Pre-market high
- $4.20 at 5:23 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.20 at 5:23 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.02
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.24
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +37.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.30 at 5:18 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 17.87 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 313,447
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 200.2×
- Float
- 22.02 million shares, from filings as of August 31, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 56.03 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 14.00 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (77%), 1.48 million in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 2.71 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (15%).
- Other days YDDL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 28, 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 YDDL 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.
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