Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on September 29, 2026
VNDA on September 29, 2026: why it ran
On September 29, 2026, VNDA opened up 0.0% from the previous close of 5.17 and reached 5.28 at 6:09 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 5.17
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 5.17
- Gap at the open
- up 0.0%
- Pre-market high
- 5.28 at 6:09 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.28 at 6:09 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.00
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 6.90 at 6:55 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 5.02
- Volume
- 1.36 million
- Relative volume
- 3.0x
- Float
- 57.27 million shares, from filings as of September 29, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 60.46 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for VNDA published between the previous session's close and the first minute VNDA traded 20% above it, at 6:48 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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Vanda Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Phase III Results for HETLIOZ®(tasimelteon) in Delayed Sleep-Wake Phase Disorder
News via Stock News API
How it traded
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:09 a.m. | Pre-market high, 5.28 |
| 6:09 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 5.28 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 5.17, up 0.0% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 5.02, 4.9% below the high |
| 6:45 p.m. | News (PRNewsWire): Vanda Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Phase III Results for HETLIOZ®(tasimelteon) in Delayed Sleep-Wake Phase Disorder |
| 6:48 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 5.17 |
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
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 3 minutes after the latest news item before it (PRNewsWire, 6:45 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 18 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 31,078 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 1.33 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day VNDA met the small-cap rule.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for VNDA 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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