Recaps · August 27, 2026

VNRX, August 27: $1.07 at 5:29 a.m. and a slow fade to $0.51

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: pre-market
• News: prior-day press releases
• Float traded 11x
• Lower high
• Gap, run and fade

Float

12.40 million shares

Volume

144.70 million shares

Previous close

$0.3392

Open

$0.6477 (up 90.9%)

High

$1.07 at 5:29 a.m.

Close

$0.5079

The day before

On August 26, VNRX opened at $0.45 and reached $0.71. It closed at $0.34, below its open.

Two press releases came out that day. At 8:17 a.m.: “Volition Announces Landmark Clinical Validation of Nu.Q® NETs Biomarker in Sepsis”. At 9:17 a.m.: “VolitionRx Highlights Commercial Momentum and Multi-Pillar Execution Across $27+ Billion Total Addressable Markets”. After hours it was at $0.41.

Pre-market: the float traded by 4:25 a.m.

The first trades on the 27th were at $0.42, already above the $0.34 close. The first minute alone traded 133,607 shares.

By 4:25 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (12.40 million). The stock was at about $0.51 then. It had been at $0.45 at 4:06.

Then it kept climbing. It crossed $0.60 around 5:05 and $0.70 around 5:11. By 5:27 it was at $0.98.

Here is what happened. The 5:28 minute pushed to $1.05. The high so far, $1.07, came in the 5:29 minute, up 215% from the previous close.

The turn was fast. The 5:30 minute traded down to $0.92, and the 5:32 minute touched $0.85. The bounce reached $0.94 in the 5:32 minute, a lower high under $1.07. 101.32 million shares traded before the bell.

Walls on the way down

At 6:02 a.m. an ask wall appeared at $1.00, while the stock was around $0.85. At that point it was a resting offer well above the price.

At 6:29 a.m. a sell order of 125,083 shares swept 93 price levels, from $0.712 to $0.684. The 6:29 and 6:30 minutes took the price from $0.73 to $0.61. Walls also showed up at $0.80 (6:47 a.m.) and $0.75 (7:13 a.m.). The $0.75 wall peaked at 176,551 shares at 7:33. After that 6:29 drop, the highest it got before the open was $0.75 at 7:01 a.m.

At 7:35 a.m. Benzinga ran: “Penny Stock VolitionRx Expands Addressable Markets With Key Diagnostic Validations”. The stock was at about $0.67 in that minute.

The open

It opened at $0.65, up 91% from the previous close. The first print at 9:30:00 was 119,771 shares at $0.6477.

Here is what happened. At 9:35:11 a buy order of 134,402 shares ran through 51 levels, $0.6857 to $0.6963. At 9:35:24 another buy of 157,055 shares ran from $0.70 to $0.715. The 9:35 minute reached $0.72, the high since the open. The next minute traded as low as $0.66.

At 9:38:55 another buy of 161,622 shares swept 44 levels, $0.6283 to $0.6435. It did not get back to $0.72. At 9:39 an ask wall appeared at $0.70. By 9:48 the stock was at $0.61, under the open.

Late morning and afternoon

From 10:30 to 10:50 it chopped between $0.60 and $0.66.

Here is what happened. At 10:51:09, 59,469 shares printed at $0.6054 at the ask. Nine seconds later a sell order of 129,200 shares ran down 34 levels, $0.605 to $0.597. The minute traded 614,025 shares and touched $0.5742. By 10:53 it was at $0.555, below anything it had traded since the open.

At 12:43 it dropped again. A 43,085-share print at $0.5641 came at the ask, then two sell orders of 171,659 and 145,374 shares swept the book. The 12:44 minute touched $0.53.

It tried once more in the afternoon. From 2:08 p.m. it climbed from $0.57 to $0.65 at 2:12 p.m., with a 210,472-share buy sweep at 2:12:16. That was a lower high than the $0.72 reached at 9:35. By 2:21 it was back below $0.58.

At 2:33 p.m. an ask wall of 372,093 shares built at $0.62 by 2:39 (3.0% of the float). It was pulled at 2:39:45. The stock was around $0.55 to $0.58 then, well below the wall.

The 1:40 p.m. minute dropped to $0.51. From 2:21 p.m. to the close it stayed between $0.50 and $0.60. At 3:34 p.m. it touched $0.53, and $0.51 was the close (low after the open: $0.50 in the 3:59 minute).

After hours and the totals

After hours it fell to $0.46 by 7:28 p.m. and last traded at $0.50 at 7:59 p.m. 3.47 million shares traded after the close.

For the regular session, 39.91 million shares traded. Counting the pre-market, 141.23 million shares traded by the close: the float changed hands about 11 times, at 83 times its normal volume.

What to take from it

• After the top, the next push stopped lower. $1.07 at 5:29 a.m., then $0.94 at 5:32 a.m. And at the open, $0.72 was a lower high than the pre-market highs.
• Most of the move was gone by the close. It closed at $0.51, less than half of the $1.07 high.
• The float traded over before the open. By 4:25 a.m. more shares had traded than the float holds.