Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on September 23, 2026
VRME on September 23, 2026: why it ran
On September 23, 2026, VRME opened up 0.0% from the previous close of 1.04 and reached 1.19 at 1:56 p.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 1.04
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 1.04
- Gap at the open
- up 0.0%
- Pre-market high
- 1.05 at 4:11 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.19 at 1:56 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.9724
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.57 at 4:54 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 1.14
- Volume
- 5.28 million
- Relative volume
- 2.3x
- Float
- 11.57 million shares, from filings as of September 23, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 13.17 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Replay VRME's day
It starts at 1:37 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 1:40 p.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The day, step by step
- Small cap
- Momentum
- Main move: after hours
- Afternoon run
- Thin regular session
- Faded after the spike
The day before
On September 22, VRME opened at $1.30 and hit $1.38. It fell to a low of $0.9132, and the official close was $1.04.
At 8:10 a.m. that day, a Business Wire headline went out: VerifyMe highlighted the benefits of a proposed Figure OPEN listing and urged shareholders to vote "FOR" Proposal 6. There was no new news on the 23rd in our data.
Pre-market: a tight range
Trading was thin. The first trade was at $1.01 at 4:00 a.m. and the stock stayed mostly between $1.00 and $1.05. It touched $1.05 at 4:11 a.m. and again at 8:51 a.m.
At 6:55 a.m. it slipped under $1.00 and hit $0.9785 at 6:56. It was back at $1.02 by 7:11. Pre-market volume was 69,293 shares.
The open and a morning dip
It opened at $1.04, the same as the previous close. It touched $1.05 in the first minute and was back at $1.02 by 9:31.
Then it slid. At 9:38 it hit $0.9724, the low so far. It bounced to $1.05 by 9:45 and reached $1.07 at 10:00. That fizzled. At 10:23 it touched $1.00 again.
Midday and early afternoon
At 11:02 it traded 9,059 shares at $1.03. By 11:10 it was at $1.14, and the 11:11 minute traded 16,842 shares. It touched $1.14 again at 11:26. Then it drifted down to $1.07 by midday, with long gaps between trades.
At 1:17 p.m. one minute traded 23,682 shares and the price dipped to $1.06. By 1:40 it was back at $1.08.
Stop It's 1:43. VRME is at $1.08 after dipping to $1.06 on a 23,682-share minute at 1:17 and drifting back up. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 1:43 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 1:40 p.m. ET.
Here's what happened. In the 1:43 minute it jumped to $1.14 and closed the minute at $1.13. The next minute traded 13,601 shares. It climbed to $1.16 at 1:47 and $1.17 at 1:51.
At 1:56 p.m. it hit $1.19, the high of the regular session. It touched $1.19 again at 1:58 and 1:59.
The fade into the close
The top did not hold. At 2:01 it was at $1.16, and by 2:16 it was at $1.14. It chopped between about $1.12 and $1.19 through the afternoon.
The 3:59 minute traded 27,348 shares. It closed at $1.14, 4% under the $1.19 high.
Regular-session volume was 690,568 shares, about 6% of the 11.57 million float.
After hours: the real move
The after-hours session was far busier than the regular session. It started around $1.12 and crept up to $1.25 by 4:28 p.m.
At 4:31 it jumped to $1.37, and the 4:32 minute traded 189,786 shares. That one minute was more than a quarter of the whole regular session.
It ran in waves. At 4:54 p.m. it hit $1.57, the high of the whole day, on 444,307 shares in that single minute. That was up 38% from the $1.14 close.
It fell back to $1.20 by 5:07 and chopped between $1.20 and $1.35 after that. The last trades were at $1.27 around 7:59 p.m. After hours traded 4,517,380 shares, more than six times the regular session.
What to take from it
- A quiet regular session can hide the real move. Here the day's high of $1.57 came after the close, on far more volume than the entire regular session.
- A thin book makes the screen price optimistic. Near the $1.19 high, a 5,000-share buy cost $76 more than the quoted $1.18.
- Slow stretches can end suddenly. After a quiet stretch around $1.08, the stock went to $1.19 in about 13 minutes.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for VRME published between the previous session's close and the first minute VRME traded 20% above it, at 4:14 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 0.0% at 1.04, then ran from the open to the high of 1.19 in 266 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:11 a.m. | Pre-market high, 1.05 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 1.04, up 0.0% from the previous close | |
| 1:56 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 1.19 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 1.14, 4.2% below the high | |
| 4:14 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 1.04 |
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: 69,293 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 64,122 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 5.14 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (97%).
- Other days VRME met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on September 24, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for VRME that day.
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.
Trade this day
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