Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 26, 2026
VMAR, August 26: a 653,046-share float, two halts, and $12.96
VMAR opened near its previous close, then ran to $12.96 through two halts during the session.
What happened
A tiny float runs
VMAR has a float of just 653K shares. It closed August 25 at $7.18 after two press releases and opened at $7.56.
The run started at 12:18, when 19K shares traded in one minute. It peaked at $12.96 at 12:35, 80% above the prior close. By 12:39, volume had passed the float.
Stop It's 12:40. VMAR is at $12.43, 53 cents under the $12.96 high from five minutes ago. The day's volume has already passed the float. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:37 p.m. and stop at 12:40 p.m. ET for your call.
It cracked that minute, falling to $11.14. At 12:41:06 it was halted.
The reopen
Stop It's 12:51. VMAR last traded at $11.14 and has been halted since 12:41. The high so far is $12.96. Trading resumes in seconds. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:48 p.m. and stop at 12:51 p.m. ET for your call.
The reopen led lower. It resumed at 12:51:06 at $10.50, 6% under the halt, and hit $9.76 that minute. A bounce stopped at $10.79.
The close
The second halt did not bring the high back. It came at 14:34:58 with the stock at $10.07. VMAR closed at $9.25, 29% under the high.
What to take from it: On this tiny float, the halt reopened lower and most of the run was gone by the close.
Replay VMAR's day
It starts at 12:14 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 12:17 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 up 5.3% at $7.56, then ran from the open to the high of $12.96 in 185 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:11 a.m. | Pre-market high, $7.90 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $7.56, up 5.3% from the previous close | |
| 10:01 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $7.18 | |
| 12:35 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $12.96 | |
| 12:39 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 653,046 shares | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $9.25, 28.6% 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
- $7.18
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $7.56
- Gap at the open
- +5.3%
- Pre-market high
- $7.90 at 9:11 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $12.96 at 12:35 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.96
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $9.25
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +28.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $9.60 at 4:03 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.32 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 42,887
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 9.0×
- Float
- 653,046 shares, from filings as of August 26, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 653,046
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3,628 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 21,088 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 1.33 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 653,046 shares: past it once at 12:39 p.m., twice at 3:55 p.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day VMAR 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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:41 p.m. | 12:51 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 10.0% | $10.50, down 5.7% | down 0.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:34 p.m. | 2:39 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 12.5% | $10.21, up 1.4% | down 7.0% | 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 VMAR on August 26, 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.