Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 7, 2026
VSA, August 7: seven halts and $7.97
VSA opened near its previous close, then ran to $7.97 through seven halts during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.15, on 102 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.03. It ran to $7.97 by 12:47 p.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it seven times, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:18 p.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 12:00 p.m.: 28% above the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $3.77, 53% 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 up 0.7% at $3.03, then ran from the open to the high of $7.97 in 197 minutes through 3 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:18 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.15 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.03, up 0.7% from the previous close |
| 12:00 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.01 |
| 12:47 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $7.97 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.77, 52.7% 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
- $3.01
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.03
- Gap at the open
- +0.7%
- Pre-market high
- $3.15 at 4:18 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.97 at 12:47 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.01
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.77
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +25.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.80 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.57 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 45,613
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 8.8×
- Float
- 27.90 million shares, from filings as of August 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 27.93 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 102 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,354 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 1.62 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days VSA met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 23, 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 (7)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 p.m. | 12:25 p.m. | 25 min 5 s | up 11.6% | $4.80, up 28.0% | up 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:27 p.m. | 12:37 p.m. | 10 min 1 s | up 40.8% | $6.00, up 13.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:37 p.m. | 12:47 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 25.0% | $7.58, up 14.8% | down 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 12:48 p.m. | 12:53 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 3.3% | $6.59, down 3.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:53 p.m. | 1:04 p.m. | 10 min 46 s | down 13.0% | $5.05, down 14.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:04 p.m. | 1:14 p.m. | 10 min 1 s | down 23.3% | $3.95, down 13.2% | down 8.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:18 p.m. | 1:23 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 20.7% | $3.50, down 3.0% | up 3.7% | 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.
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