Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 18, 2026
VRME, September 18: a pre-market top, an ask wall at $0.795, and $1.21 after hours
VRME opened up 12% after news, then faded below its open by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
A pre-market spike, then the open
It hit $0.92 at 4:02 a.m. and slid to $0.76 by 5:16. It opened at $0.86, 12% above the prior close of $0.77.
Stop It's 9:36. VRME is at $0.8051. It opened the day at $0.86. Would you buy this dip?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:33 a.m. and stop at 9:36 a.m. ET for your call.
Sellers took over. At 9:36:17 one order swept 27K shares down to $0.795. At 9:39 it hit $0.68.
The wall at $0.795
Late in the afternoon, a big offer showed up just above the price.
Stop It's 3:40 p.m. VRME is at $0.79. Just above, about 80,000 shares are offered at $0.795. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:37 p.m. and stop at 3:40 p.m. ET for your call.
The wall held to the end. The stock never traded above $0.795 from 3:40 to the close. At 3:56:30 the 80K-share wall was pulled after only 100 shares traded there.
News after the close
The real move came after the bell. At 4:10 p.m. the company declared a special dividend, and the stock jumped from $0.76. At 4:24 it hit $1.21, the day's high. After hours traded 3.8M shares, against 488K in the regular session.
What to take from it: The $0.795 wall capped the close, and the day's high came only after the dividend news.
Replay VRME's day
It starts at 3:54 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 3:57 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 and fade. It gapped up 11.7% to $0.8599 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $0.7949.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:02 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.9211 | |
| 4:02 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $0.9211 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.8599, up 11.7% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.7949, 13.7% below the high | |
| 4:10 p.m. | News (Business Wire): VerifyMe Declares Special Dividend | |
| 4:10 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.77 |
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
- $0.77
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.8599
- Gap at the open
- +11.7%
- Pre-market high
- $0.9211 at 4:02 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.9211 at 4:02 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.6789
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.7949
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +3.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.21 at 4:24 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.10 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.81 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 11.0×
- Float
- 11.57 million shares, from filings as of September 18, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 13.17 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (Business Wire, 4:10 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 614,196 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (13%), 198,136 in the first 30 minutes (4%), and 4.10 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (83%).
- Other days VRME met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on September 24, 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 VRME 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 VRME on September 18, 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.