Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 27, 2026
VNRX, August 27: $1.07 at 5:29 a.m. and a slow fade to $0.51
VNRX opened up 91%, ran to $0.72, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Pre-market spike
Sepsis-test news the day before lit up VNRX after a $0.34 close. The whole float traded by 4:25 a.m., and by 5:27 it was at $0.98.
Stop It's 5:28. VNRX is at $0.98. It was at $0.45 at 4:06 a.m. and closed yesterday at $0.34. Would you chase it here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 5:25 a.m. and stop at 5:28 a.m. ET for your call.
It kept going. It hit $1.07 in the 5:29 minute. By 5:32 it had touched $0.85.
A short open pop
It opened at $0.65, far below the pre-market high.
Stop It's 9:35. VNRX is at $0.68, up from the $0.65 open. The last minute traded 985,837 shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:32 a.m. and stop at 9:35 a.m. ET for your call.
Buy orders pushed it to $0.72 that minute. By 9:48 it was at $0.61.
A tight range
Stop It's 10:51. VNRX is at $0.61. Since 10:30 it has stayed between $0.60 and $0.66. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:48 a.m. and stop at 10:51 a.m. ET for your call.
Seconds later a 129K-share sell order hit. By 10:53 it was at $0.555.
A 372K-share ask wall at $0.62 was pulled at 2:39:45, with the stock well below it. It closed at $0.51.
What to take from it: Each push stopped lower than the last, and it closed at less than half its high.
Replay VNRX's day
It starts at 1:53 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 1:56 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
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 90.9% to $0.6477 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $0.72 in 5 minutes, then gave back 293% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $0.5079, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.3392 | |
| 4:25 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 12.40 million shares | |
| 5:29 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.07 | |
| 5:29 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.07 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.6477, up 90.9% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.5079, 52.5% 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
- $0.3392
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.6477
- Gap at the open
- +90.9%
- Pre-market high
- $1.07 at 5:29 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.07 at 5:29 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.404
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.5079
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +49.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $0.526 at 4:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 141.23 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.47 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 83.0×
- Float
- 12.40 million shares, from filings as of August 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 13.65 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 101.32 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (70%), 9.88 million in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 33.50 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (23%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 12.40 million shares: past it once at 4:25 a.m., twice at 5:06 a.m., three times at 5:22 a.m.
- Other days VNRX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 5, 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 VNRX 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
Replay VNRX on August 27, 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.