Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 23, 2026
VRME, September 23: a quiet day to $1.19, then a $1.57 after-hours spike
VRME opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.19 during the session.
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
A quiet start
There was no new news on the 23rd. The last headline came the day before, when VerifyMe urged shareholders to vote "FOR" Proposal 6. VRME opened at $1.04, flat with the prior close.
It dipped to $0.9724 by 9:38.
A slow midday
Midday was slow, with long gaps between trades. At 1:17 p.m. a 24K-share minute dipped it to $1.06.
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, tape and chart run from 1:40 p.m. and stop at 1:43 p.m. ET for your call.
It jumped to $1.14 that minute. At 1:56 p.m. it hit $1.19, the regular-session high.
The top did not hold. It closed at $1.14 on 691K shares.
After hours took over
The real move came after the close. At 4:31 it jumped to $1.37. At 4:54 p.m. it hit $1.57, the day's high, 38% above the close. It fell back to $1.20 by 5:07. After hours traded 4.5M shares, more than six times the regular session.
What to take from it: On VRME, the regular session was quiet, and the biggest move and most of the volume came after the close.
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 details
How it traded, step by step
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's name comes from a fixed rule, not a judgement (how shapes are named). Halts are in the halt table below.
The day in numbers
- Previous close
- $1.04
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.04
- Gap at the open
- +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
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.14
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +9.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.57 at 4:54 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 759,861
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.52 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.3×
- Float
- 11.57 million shares, from filings as of September 23, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 13.17 million
- 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.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it was in play on the intraday runners: up 30% or more on $3 million or more really traded, outside the small-cap rule's price, relative volume or float, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for VRME that day.
Halt bands that day: the LULD plan's Amendment 18 rules (what that means, LULD calculator).
How we read the data, name a day's shape and pick the stocks: methodology.
Trade this day
Replay VRME on September 23, 2026 in Hindsight Markets: the real tape, the order book and the halts, on a clock you control, and see where your orders would have filled.