Recaps · September 21, 2026

VEEE, September 21: three halts and $22.80

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: pre-market and the open
• Tiny float
• Halt run
• Halted three times
• Lower high, faded
• Float traded 23x

Float

569,510 shares

Volume

13.36 million shares

Previous close

$8.58

Open

$14.50 (up 69.0%)

High

$22.80 at 10:16 a.m.

Halts

3 (9:32 a.m. and 9:48 a.m. and 10:11 a.m.)

Close

$17.30

The day before

On September 18, VEEE opened at $8.75 and traded as high as $13.95. It closed at $8.58, below where it opened.

Its last trade of that day was at $10.67. No news headline is in the data for the 21st.

Pre-market: the float traded by 8:47 a.m.

The first trades on the 21st were at $11.09, already above the $8.58 close. Then it drifted lower, to about $10 by 4:41 a.m. It stayed near $10 for hours, with a low of $9.33 at 6:31 a.m.

The real move started at 8:25 a.m. From $9.80 at 8:24 a.m. it ran to $14.90 at 8:48 a.m., up 52%. The 8:31 minute traded 16,165 shares. The 8:45, 8:46 and 8:47 minutes each traded more than 100,000. By 8:47 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (569,510).

It pulled back to $12.05 at 9:00 a.m. Then it ran to the pre-market high, $15.61 at 9:04 a.m. 2.65 million shares traded before the bell.

The open and the first halt

It opened at $14.50, up 69% from the previous close. The first minute dipped, and the low since the open was $13.68 at 9:31. In that same minute it cleared the pre-market high of $15.61, reaching $16.00.

At 9:32:37 it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $16.32.

Here's what happened. It reopened at 9:37:37 at $16.29. One print of 20,772 shares went through at exactly the reopen price. The first minute after the reopen ranged from $15.42 to $17.16. A buy order of about 14,000 shares swept through 39 price levels, from $15.99 to $16.70. At 9:38 it ran to $18.70.

From $13.68 at 9:31 it ran to $19.48 at 9:40, up 42%, and kept going to $20.38 at 9:43. Then it slid, reaching $17.44 by 9:47.

Second halt

At 9:48 a.m. it was halted again with the last trade at $17.44.

Here's what happened. It reopened at 9:53:14 at $17.44, the same price where it stopped. The reopen minute ranged from $16.62 to $18.48. A buy sweep of about 14,000 shares ran from $18.24 to $18.48 across 21 levels at 9:53:58.

For the next 15 minutes it chopped, with a low of $16.36 at 10:02. Then it turned up. From $17.13 at 10:06 it ran to $20.74 at 10:10. Two buy sweeps went through in that minute, at 10:10:06 and 10:10:54. The second was 16,702 shares from $20.17 to $20.74 across 50 levels. By 10:10 a.m. the day's volume was ten times the float.

At 10:11 a.m. it was halted a third time with the last trade at $20.74.

Here's what happened. It reopened at 10:16:11 at $21.55, 4% above where it stopped. A single print of 38,135 shares went through at that price. In that same minute it hit $22.80, the high of the day, then closed the minute at $22.01. Within three minutes it was back at $18.89.

The rest of the day

It chopped between roughly $16.45 and $20.70 until noon, with a low of $16.45 at 11:22. At 12:05 it started climbing again, and at 12:11 it hit $21.46, still under the $22.80 top.

At 12:56 it pushed to $21.68, another lower high under $22.80. At 12:57:15 a sell order of 19,574 shares went through from $19.58 to $19.00 across 44 levels.

From there it faded. At 1:45 p.m. an ask wall of 20,350 shares appeared at $23.10 (3.6% of the float), above the day's high, and it was pulled at 1:46. At 1:58 p.m. two sell sweeps went through (13,917 and 21,680 shares) and the low was $16.57.

A bid wall of about 20,000 shares then sat at $17.00 from 3:08 p.m. until it was pulled at 3:34. The stock traded down to $16.61 at 3:48 p.m. It closed at $17.30.

After hours it fell to $14.60 at 5:33 p.m. It was back to $16.95 at 7:59 p.m.

From 4 a.m. to the close, 13.03 million shares traded: the float changed hands about 23 times. Relative volume was about 663 times normal.

What to take from it

• Right after each halt reopened, the book was thin. The three 5,000-share buys cost $2,830, $2,019 and $1,236 more than the screen showed.
• After the top, the next pushes stopped lower. $22.80 at 10:16 a.m., then $21.46 at 12:11 p.m. and $21.68 at 12:56 p.m.
• A halt can reopen higher than it stopped. The 10:11 a.m. halt stopped at $20.74 and reopened at $21.55, and the high came in that same minute.