Recaps · September 18, 2026

VRME, September 18: a pre-market top, an ask wall at $0.795, and $1.21 after hours

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: after hours
• Gap and fade
• Lower high
• Ask wall pulled
• Filings after hours

Float

11.57 million shares

Volume

4.91 million shares

Previous close

$0.7700

Open

$0.8599 (up 11.7%)

High

$0.9211 at 4:02 a.m.

Close

$0.7949

The day before

On September 17, VRME ran from $0.69 to $1.10. It gave most of it back and closed at $0.77.

At 8:00 that morning Business Wire carried a headline: “VerifyMe Urges Shareholders to Vote ‘For’ Proposal 6 to Advance Proposed Figure OPEN Listing”. After hours the stock was back up to $0.93.

Pre-market: $0.92 at 4:02, then a slow slide

The first trades on the 18th were around $0.89, already above the $0.77 close. The pre-market high was $0.92 at 4:02 a.m. 614,196 shares traded before the bell.

It did not hold. At 4:07 a sell order swept 12,889 shares through three price levels, and the 4:08 minute was the busiest of the pre-market (50,607 shares). By the end of it the stock was at $0.82.

From there it drifted lower for an hour and hit $0.76 at 5:16 a.m., down 17% from the top. Volume was thin, with many minutes of only a few hundred shares.

It came back once more. At 9:28 a.m. it pushed to $0.86, a lower high under the $0.92 top.

The open and the first ten minutes

It opened at $0.86, up 12% from the previous close. A single print of 27,628 shares went through at $0.8599 in the first second.

By 9:35 it was back to $0.81, and the 9:36 minute opened at $0.8051.

Here's what happened. At 9:36:17 a sell order swept 26,536 shares through six price levels, from $0.8052 to $0.795. The minute traded 55,627 shares. A little later, at 9:38:43, another sell order swept 10,177 shares through twelve levels, from $0.755 to $0.7463.

At 9:39 it hit $0.68, the regular-session low so far. That is about 16% under the $0.8051 where the 9:36 minute opened. It was back to $0.73 a minute later.

The rest of the morning was quiet. At 10:20 one print of 43,721 shares went through at $0.773. The stock ranged between about $0.72 and $0.82 until the afternoon.

The wall at $0.795

The afternoon was mostly small trades between about $0.76 and $0.82. Then something showed up on the book.

The wall was first seen at 3:39:55 with 80,374 shares for sale at $0.795, about 0.7% of the float. Between 3:40 p.m. and the close, the stock never traded above $0.795. A single print of 68,227 shares went through at $0.795 at 3:47, at the bid.

At 3:56:30 the wall was pulled. 100 shares traded at exactly $0.795 in the second before it left. The last regular-session bar traded at $0.795. The regular session ended with 487,819 shares traded.

After hours: $0.76 to $1.21

At 4:09 p.m. it traded at $0.7622. At 4:10 p.m. Business Wire ran: “VerifyMe Declares Special Dividend”. The 4:10 minute opened at $0.7791 and reached $0.9832 on 171,763 shares. In the next minute it touched $1.05.

The busiest minute was 4:12, with 320,826 shares. At 4:17 it reached $1.04, and at 4:24 p.m. it reached $1.21, up 59% from the $0.76 of 4:09. That minute's range was $0.91 to $1.21.

At 4:26 p.m. the company filed two documents: a 425 (merger communications) and an 8-K (a current report). The 4:26 minute traded between $0.9952 and $1.13 and closed at $1.02. The wide swings were already there before the filings.

From there it faded. It was near $0.97 at 4:30, $0.89 at 4:59 and $0.87 by 5:02. It then bounced several times and ended the evening around $0.91. After hours traded 3.8 million shares, about a third of the float, against 487,819 in the whole regular session.

What to take from it

• After the top, the next push stopped lower. $0.92 at 4:02 a.m., then $0.86 at 9:28 a.m. The open at $0.86 was the high of the regular session.
• The $0.795 wall was pulled with 100 shares traded at that price in the second before. From 3:40 p.m. to the close the stock did not trade above $0.795.
• The biggest volume of the day came after the close. 3.8 million shares traded after hours, against 487,819 in the regular session.