Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 21, 2026
VEEE, September 21: three halts and $22.80
VEEE opened up 69%, ran to $22.80 through three halts, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
A halt at the open
No news is in the data, yet VEEE opened at $14.50, up 69%. It was halted at 9:32:37 at $16.32.
Stop It's 9:37. VEEE last traded at $16.32 and has been halted since 9:32. It has been up and down since the open. Trading resumes in seconds. Would you buy the reopen?
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It reopened at $16.29 and hit $18.70 the next minute.
Two more halts
It slid to $17.44 and was halted again at 9:48:14.
Stop It's 9:53. VEEE last traded at $17.44 and has been halted since 9:48. It was at $20.38 ten minutes ago. Trading resumes in seconds. Would you buy the reopen?
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It reopened at $17.44 and chopped. Then it ran to $20.74 and was halted a third time.
Stop It's 10:16. VEEE last traded at $20.74 and has been halted since 10:11. It has run from $17.13 in ten minutes. Trading resumes in seconds. Would you chase the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:13 a.m. and stop at 10:16 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened 4% higher and hit $22.80, the day's high, that minute. Three minutes later it was at $18.89.
Lower highs
Later pushes stopped lower, at $21.46 and $21.68. It closed at $17.30.
What to take from it: After each halt, the book was thin, and market buys paid above the screen.
Replay VEEE's day
It starts at 9:24 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:27 a.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, gave some back. It gapped up 69.0% to $14.50 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $22.80 in 46 minutes through 3 halts, then gave back 66% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $17.30, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $8.58 | |
| 8:47 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 569,510 shares | |
| 9:04 a.m. | Pre-market high, $15.61 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $14.50, up 69.0% from the previous close | |
| 10:16 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $22.80 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $17.30, 24.1% 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
- $8.58
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $14.50
- Gap at the open
- +69.0%
- Pre-market high
- $15.61 at 9:04 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $22.80 at 10:16 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.33
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $17.30
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +101.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $17.51 at 4:12 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 13.03 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 323,557
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 662.7×
- Float
- 569,510 shares, from filings as of September 21, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 584,321
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2.65 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (20%), 2.57 million in the first 30 minutes (19%), and 8.13 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (61%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 569,510 shares: past it once at 8:47 a.m., twice at 8:54 a.m., three times at 9:04 a.m.
- Other days VEEE met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 18, 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 (3)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:32 a.m. | 9:37 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 12.8% | $16.29, down 0.2% | up 15.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 9:48 a.m. | 9:53 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 11.9% | $17.44, unchanged | up 3.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:11 a.m. | 10:16 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 20.7% | $21.55, up 3.9% | down 6.3% | 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 VEEE on September 21, 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.