Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 22, 2026
WHLR, September 22: a run to $2.34
WHLR opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.34 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.08, on 5K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.03. It ran to $2.34 by 9:47 a.m.
The close
It closed at $1.98, 16% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened down 1.8% at $2.03, then ran from the open to the high of $2.34 in 17 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:03 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.08 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.03, down 1.8% from the previous close |
| 9:47 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.34 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.98, 15.6% below the high |
| 4:36 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.07 |
| 4:36 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 500,594 shares |
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
- $2.07
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.03
- Gap at the open
- −1.8%
- Pre-market high
- $2.08 at 9:03 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.34 at 9:47 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.65
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.98
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −4.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.39 at 6:42 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 426,292
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 7.16 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 27.8×
- Float
- 500,594 shares, from filings as of September 22, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 568,211
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4,888 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 102,071 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 7.48 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 500,594 shares: past it once at 4:36 p.m., twice at 4:39 p.m., three times at 4:43 p.m.
- Other days WHLR met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 6, 2026.
- The next session, September 23, 2026, it was up 192.0% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for WHLR 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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