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VSA on August 7, 2026: why it ran

Published October 11, 2026 · By Hindsight Markets

On August 7, 2026, VSA opened up 0.7% from the previous close of 3.01 and reached 7.97 at 12:47 p.m. ET. The exchange halted it 7 times.

Previous close

3.01

Open, 9:30 a.m.

3.03

Gap at the open

up 0.7%

Pre-market high

3.15 at 4:18 a.m.

High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.

7.97 at 12:47 p.m.

Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.

3.01

After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

3.80 at 4:00 p.m.

Last trade before 4:00 p.m.

3.77

Volume

1.62 million

Relative volume

8.8x

Float

27.90 million shares, from filings as of August 7, 2026

Shares outstanding

27.93 million

Halts

7

Why it ran

News and SEC filings for VSA published between the previous session's close and the first minute VSA traded 20% above it, at 12:00 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.

No news found before the move.

How it traded

Intraday run. It opened up 0.7% at 3.03, then ran from the open to the high of 7.97 in 197 minutes through 3 halts.

The shape is a fixed rule, not a judgement: gapped 10% or more at the open, ran 10% or more from the open to the high, and faded if it gave back 30% or more of that move by the close.

The day in numbers

• Volume, from the one-minute bars: 102 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,354 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 1.62 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
• The halt at 12:00 p.m.: up 11.6% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 4.80, up 28.0% from the last trade before it, then up 10.0% over the next 5 minutes.
• The halt at 12:27 p.m.: up 40.8% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 6.00, up 13.6% from the last trade before it.
• The halt at 12:37 p.m.: up 25.0% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 7.58, up 14.8% from the last trade before it, then down 10.0% over the next 5 minutes.
• The halt at 12:48 p.m.: up 3.3% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 6.59, down 3.4% from the last trade before it.
• The halt at 12:53 p.m.: down 13.0% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 5.05, down 14.8% from the last trade before it.
• The halt at 1:04 p.m.: down 23.3% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.95, down 13.2% from the last trade before it, then down 8.6% over the next 5 minutes.
• The halt at 1:18 p.m.: down 20.7% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.50, down 3.0% from the last trade before it, then up 3.7% over the next 5 minutes.
• Other days VSA met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 23, 2026.

Halts

On this date the LULD plan ran under Amendment 18, in force from February 24, 2020: no band doubling at the open, and the closing doubling only for Tier 1 stocks and Tier 2 stocks whose previous close was at or below three dollars. See LULD halts or work out a band with the LULD calculator.