Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 5, 2026
VEEA, October 5: the $5.70 wall, one halt, and $6.75
VEEA opened up 60%, ran to $6.75 through one halt, then gave back most of the run by the close.
What happened
A wall above
Sellers capped the morning. VEEA opened at $5.34, 60% above the $3.33 close. From 9:58 a 60K-share ask wall sat at $5.70.
Buyers below gave way. Two bid walls were pulled at 11:43, and it hit $4.66 that minute.
Stop It's 12:12. VEEA is at $4.95, up from the $4.66 low after the open at 11:43. An ask wall has sat at $5.70 since 9:58. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:09 p.m. and stop at 12:12 p.m. ET for your call.
It crept up through lunch.
Stop It's 1:55. VEEA is at $5.56 and has been climbing since 1:34. An ask wall has sat at $5.70 since 9:58. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:52 p.m. and stop at 1:55 p.m. ET for your call.
The wall breaks
Here the wall broke instead of holding. From 1:55:32, 39K shares traded at $5.70 in 2.5 seconds. Buyers ate it.
The 2:07 halt
The $6.00 wall fell at 2:07:04, clearing the pre-market high. At 2:07:36 it was halted.
It reopened at 2:12:36 at $6.07 and swept to $6.40.
Stop It's 2:53. VEEA is at $6.30. Five minutes ago it touched $6.67, then pulled back. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:50 p.m. and stop at 2:53 p.m. ET for your call.
It ran to $6.75, the high, at 2:54, then faded to close near $5.70.
What to take from it: A wall that sat for hours broke in seconds.
Replay VEEA's day
It starts at 2:00 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 2:03 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, gave some back. It gapped up 60.4% to $5.34 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $6.75 in 324 minutes through a halt, then gave back 75% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $5.70, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.33 | |
| 5:10 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.85 million shares | |
| 7:13 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.00 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.34, up 60.4% from the previous close | |
| 2:54 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.75 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.70, 15.6% 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
- $3.33
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.34
- Gap at the open
- +60.4%
- Pre-market high
- $6.00 at 7:13 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.75 at 2:54 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.87
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.70
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +71.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.15 at 4:53 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 22.94 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 719,063
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 3.4×
- Float
- 1.85 million shares, from filings as of October 5, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.11 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 12.55 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (53%), 1.93 million in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 9.18 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (39%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.85 million shares: past it once at 5:10 a.m., twice at 6:06 a.m., three times at 7:03 a.m.
- Other days VEEA met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 7, the latest on October 13, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:07 p.m. | 2:12 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 11.6% | $6.07, unchanged | up 2.5% | 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 VEEA on October 5, 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.