Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 5, 2026
VRAX, October 5: a run to $3.35
VRAX opened up 17%, ran to $3.35, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.01, on 320K shares.
The open
It opened up 17%, at $2.53. It ran to $3.35 by 10:14 a.m.
The close
It closed at $2.40, 28% under its high.
What to take from it: The whole move was given back: it finished below the price it opened at.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 16.6% to $2.53 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $3.35 in 44 minutes, then gave back 116% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $2.40, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:26 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.17 |
| 7:53 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.01 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.53, up 16.6% from the previous close |
| 10:14 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.35 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.40, 28.4% below the high |
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
- $2.17
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.53
- Gap at the open
- +16.6%
- Pre-market high
- $3.01 at 7:53 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.35 at 10:14 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.16
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.40
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +10.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.46 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.13 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 61,449
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 75.4×
- Float
- 1.33 million shares, from filings as of October 5, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.34 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 319,543 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (27%), 14,267 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 858,750 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (72%).
- Other days VRAX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 19, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: price $2 to $20, up 10% or more, relative volume 5× or more, float under 20 million shares, 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 VRAX 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
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