Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 28, 2026
WBUY, September 28: a 4:30 headline, a $1.36 spike, and a $1.00 bid wall
WBUY opened up 25% after news, ran to $1.15, then fell below its open by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Headline to spike
A 4:30 a.m. revenue headline woke a stock that traded only 12K shares the day before. By 5:21 it was at $1.20 on a 661K-share minute.
Stop It's 5:22. WBUY is at $1.20. It was $1.07 at the end of 5:20, and the last minute traded 661,039 shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 5:19 a.m. and stop at 5:22 a.m. ET for your call.
That minute held the top. It hit $1.36 at 5:22, then fell to $1.12 within two minutes.
The $1.00 wall
A bid of about 102K shares had sat at $1.00 since 5:16.
Stop It's 6:34. WBUY is at $1.04. Since 6:05 it has held between $1.02 and $1.09. Big bid walls sit at $1.04 and at $1.00, under the market. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 6:31 a.m. and stop at 6:34 a.m. ET for your call.
Sellers ate the $1.04 wall first. At 6:34:18 one sell broke $1.00 too. 53K shares traded there in under a second.
The open
It opened at $1.04, well under the pre-market high.
Stop It's 9:34. WBUY is at $1.13, after a 9:33 minute that ran from $1.08 to $1.15 on 262,844 shares. Would you chase it here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:31 a.m. and stop at 9:34 a.m. ET for your call.
$1.15 was the regular-session high. A sell swept it to $0.97 that minute. It closed at $0.91, 33% under the day's high.
What to take from it: On this day the top came at 5:22 a.m., hours before the open.
Replay WBUY's day
It starts at 9:15 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:18 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 25.0% to $1.04 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.15 in 3 minutes, then gave back 216% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $0.912, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:30 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): WEBUY GLOBAL LTD. Nearly Doubles First-Half 2026 Revenue to US$14.3 Million as Gross Profit Increases 132% | |
| 4:31 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.8321 | |
| 5:08 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 3.17 million shares | |
| 5:22 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.36 | |
| 5:22 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.36 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.04, up 25.0% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.912, 32.9% 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
- $0.8321
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.04
- Gap at the open
- +25.0%
- Pre-market high
- $1.36 at 5:22 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.36 at 5:22 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.821
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.912
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +9.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.10 at 4:48 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 21.55 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 486,841
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 21.5×
- Float
- 3.17 million shares, from filings as of September 28, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 5.20 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 minute after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 4:30 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 18.13 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (82%), 1.47 million in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 2.44 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (11%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 3.17 million shares: past it once at 5:08 a.m., twice at 5:23 a.m., three times at 5:32 a.m.
- Other days WBUY met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 13, 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 WBUY 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.
Trade this day
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