Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 18, 2026
VOGX, August 18: a gap that held
VOGX opened up 18% and held near that level into the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $36.03, on 91K shares.
The open
It opened up 18%, at $18.63.
The close
It closed at $19.53, 46% under its high.
What to take from it: The gap was the move. After the open it went sideways.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and hold. It gapped up 18.3% to $18.63 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $19.53 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:02 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $15.75 |
| 4:04 a.m. | Pre-market high, $36.03 |
| 4:04 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $36.03 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $18.63, up 18.3% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $19.53, 45.8% 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
- $15.75
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $18.63
- Gap at the open
- +18.3%
- Pre-market high
- $36.03 at 4:04 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $36.03 at 4:04 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $17.38
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $19.53
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +24.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $20.60 at 4:17 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 249,097
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 6,102
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 8.7×
- Float
- 6.25 million shares, from filings as of August 18, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 13.92 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 90,765 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (36%), 38,731 in the first 30 minutes (15%), and 125,703 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (49%).
- Other days VOGX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 21, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 VOGX 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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