Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 1, 2026
WFCF, October 1: a quiet morning, 12 halts, and $18.73
WFCF opened near its previous close after an EFFECT notice, then ran to $18.73 through twelve halts during the session.
What happened
A quiet morning
The only news was an EFFECT filing posted at 12:15 a.m. The stock opened at $11.03, near the $11.06 close. No minute before 11:29 traded more than 17 shares.
At 11:29 it traded 500 shares and touched $12.00.
Stop It's 11:32. WFCF is at $12.80, up from $11.43 at 11:29. Before 11:29 it traded a few shares a minute. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:29 a.m. and stop at 11:32 a.m. ET for your call.
Halts and thin reopens
At 11:33:03 it was halted at $12.80. It reopened at 11:43:04 at $15.25 and hit $16.00 two minutes later. Then it fell, halting again and again.
It sank to $10.67 at 12:02. It was halted for the twelfth time at 1:43:43 and reopened at 1:48:43.
Stop It's 1:49 p.m. WFCF reopened from its 12th halt a minute ago and is at $15.85. The high of the day so far is $16.00, from 11:45. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:46 p.m. and stop at 1:49 p.m. ET for your call.
The top and the fade
It ran on the day's biggest volume and made $18.73 at 1:53 p.m., 69% above the prior close. By 2:02 p.m. it was at $13.77. It closed the 3:59 minute at $12.72.
What to take from it: On this thin stock, the price on screen at a halt reopen was not the price a real buy would get.
Replay WFCF's day
It starts at 1:35 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 1:38 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 down 0.3% at $11.03, then ran from the open to the high of $18.73 in 263 minutes through 12 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 12:15 a.m. | SEC filing EFFECT: | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $11.03, down 0.3% from the previous close | |
| 11:32 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $11.06 | |
| 1:53 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $18.73 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $12.72, 32.1% 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
- $11.06
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $11.03
- Gap at the open
- −0.3%
- Pre-market high
- not available
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $18.73 at 1:53 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $10.67
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $12.72
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +15.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $13.36 at 4:11 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.02 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 15,335
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 2.28 million shares, from filings as of October 1, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.98 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 11 hours 16 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (EFFECT, 12:15 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 0 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 14 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 1.04 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day WFCF met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 (12)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:33 a.m. | 11:43 a.m. | 10 min 1 s | up 11.4% | $15.25, up 19.1% | down 12.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:47 a.m. | 11:52 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 4.3% | $12.94, down 3.1% | down 11.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:54 a.m. | 11:59 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 13.9% | $11.41, down 0.8% | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:04 p.m. | 12:09 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 9.1% | $12.55, unchanged | up 8.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:15 p.m. | 12:20 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 7.9% | $14.39, up 7.8% | down 13.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:21 p.m. | 12:26 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 6.3% | $12.48, down 0.2% | down 9.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:32 p.m. | 12:37 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 6.0% | $12.99, up 1.0% | down 12.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:52 p.m. | 12:57 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 10.7% | $12.21, down 6.5% | up 6.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:03 p.m. | 1:08 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 6.4% | $12.40, down 1.1% | up 0.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:15 p.m. | 1:20 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 14.6% | $13.69, down 2.8% | down 5.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:27 p.m. | 1:32 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 17.7% | $15.00, up 2.0% | down 8.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:43 p.m. | 1:48 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 16.4% | $15.00, down 2.3% | up 19.2% | 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 WFCF on October 1, 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.