Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 15, 2026
NWGL, September 15: a slow grind, two halts, and $1.98
NWGL opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.98 through two halts during the session.
What happened
No news, a slow climb
There was no news headline today. It opened at $1.23 and dipped to $1.10 by 9:45. Two ask walls of about 52K shares sat at $1.45 and $1.50. Both were pulled at 10:35 without trading. It first traded at $1.45 at 1:02 p.m.
Two halts
Stop It's 2:28. NWGL is at $1.63, up from $1.51 at 2:23. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:25 p.m. and stop at 2:28 p.m. ET for your call.
It ran to $1.98 the next minute on 214K shares, 64% over the prior close. At 2:29:40 it was halted.
It reopened at 2:34:40 at $1.95. A 91K-share ask wall at $2.05 was pulled two seconds later. Sellers pushed it to $1.74 that minute.
Stop It's 2:35. NWGL reopened from its halt 20 seconds ago. The 2:35 minute opened at $1.82. Would you buy the dip?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:32 p.m. and stop at 2:35 p.m. ET for your call.
It was halted again at 2:35:22 at $1.56. It reopened at 2:40:22 at $1.41, 10% lower.
Close and after hours
The later bounces fell short of $1.98. It got back to $1.81 at 2:53. It closed at $1.78, up 47%, on 3.1M shares. After hours it hit $2.38, the day's high, at 4:34. Then it fell to $1.32 by 4:59.
What to take from it: Both halts on NWGL reopened below where they stopped, and the big walls left the book without trading.
Replay NWGL's day
It starts at 2:11 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 2:14 p.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
Intraday run. It opened up 1.7% at $1.23, then ran from the open to the high of $1.98 in 299 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:25 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.27 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.23, up 1.7% from the previous close | |
| 1:03 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.21 | |
| 2:29 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.98 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.78, 10.1% 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
- $1.21
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.23
- Gap at the open
- +1.7%
- Pre-market high
- $1.27 at 9:25 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.98 at 2:29 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.10
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.78
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +47.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.38 at 4:34 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.13 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 992,049
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.6×
- Float
- 10.30 million shares, from filings as of September 15, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 17.24 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 811 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 132,501 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 3.99 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (97%).
- Other days NWGL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 4, 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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:29 p.m. | 2:34 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 25.3% | $1.95, down 1.5% | down 20.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:35 p.m. | 2:40 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 21.2% | $1.41, down 9.6% | up 11.3% | 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.
Trade this day
Replay NWGL on September 15, 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.