Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on November 2, 2026
VCIG, November 2: a 70% halt reopen and $9.35
VCIG opened up 12%, ran to $9.35 through eleven halts, then gave back some of the run by the close.
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
A 99K-share float wakes up at noon
It opened at $3.39 and sank to $2.70 by 10:43 a.m. Then volume arrived. It ran to $4.34 at 12:36 p.m. after the first halt, in a stock with a float of just 99K shares.
A halt from $4.05
The 1:32:28 halt began after a trade at $4.05. It reopened at 2:42:29 p.m. at $6.90, 70% higher, on a 52K-share print.
Stop It's 2:43. VCIG reopened a minute ago at $6.49 after a halt that began at $4.05, and it's at $6.49. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:40 p.m. and stop at 2:43 p.m. ET for your call.
It fell to $5.69 that minute. A 24,100-share ask wall at $7.83 appeared, about 24% of the float. It was pulled at 3:01:06 p.m. The low of the slide was $4.87 at 2:54.
The afternoon run
Stop It's 2:59. VCIG is at $5.33. At 2:54 it traded as low as $4.87. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:56 p.m. and stop at 2:59 p.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at $6.49 at 3:09:32 and was at $7.45 by 3:14. After the 3:21:51 reopen the screen said $7.93, but 5,000 shares averaged $8.17, $1,187 more.
$9.35, the high of the day, came at 3:24 p.m. The last regular-session bar closed at $7.45, 20% under the high.
What to take from it: Halt reopen prices moved fast. VCIG stopped at $4.05 and reopened at $6.90, and a 5,000-share buy paid $1,187 over the screen at the 3:21 reopen.
Replay VCIG's day
It starts at 2:55 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 2:58 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
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 11.5% to $3.39 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $9.35 in 354 minutes through 7 halts, then gave back 32% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $7.45, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:26 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.45 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.39, up 11.5% from the previous close | |
| 9:41 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.04 | |
| 12:00 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 98,990 shares | |
| 3:24 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $9.35 | |
| 3:45 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $7.45, 20.3% 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
- $3.04
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.39
- Gap at the open
- +11.5%
- Pre-market high
- $3.45 at 9:26 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.35 at 3:24 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.70
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $7.45
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +145.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $8.74 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.23 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.35 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 10.4×
- Float
- 98,990 shares, from filings as of November 2, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 118,159
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 27,327 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 17,898 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 3.54 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 98,990 shares: past it once at 12:00 p.m., twice at 12:38 p.m., three times at 1:17 p.m.
- Other days VCIG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 12, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 (11)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:04 a.m. | 9:00 a.m. | 355 min 6 s | $3.24 | unchanged | No reason given in the feed | ||
| 12:30 p.m. | 12:35 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 14.6% | $4.23, up 0.7% | down 10.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:32 p.m. | 2:42 p.m. | 70 min 1 s | up 14.6% | $6.90, up 70.4% | down 17.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:44 p.m. | 2:49 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 40.5% | $5.69, unchanged | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 2:49 p.m. | 2:54 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 10.0% | $5.00, down 2.3% | up 6.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:59 p.m. | 3:09 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 11.5% | $6.49, up 9.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 3:09 p.m. | 3:14 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 20.8% | $7.14, unchanged | up 14.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 3:16 p.m. | 3:21 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 14.4% | $8.17, unchanged | down 1.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 3:29 p.m. | 3:34 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 12.3% | $7.53, down 0.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 3:34 p.m. | 3:39 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 9.1% | $8.53, up 3.0% | down 6.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 3:45 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | 14 min 21 s | down 9.0% | $7.45, unchanged | up 6.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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 VCIG on November 2, 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.