Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 14, 2026
VWAV, August 14: a run to $2.14
VWAV opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.14 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.29, on 9K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.29. It ran to $2.14 by 1:54 p.m.
The close
It closed at $1.77, 17% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 4.9% at $1.29, then ran from the open to the high of $2.14 in 264 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.29 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.29, up 4.9% from the previous close |
| 10:01 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.23 |
| 1:54 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.14 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.77, 17.3% 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
- $1.23
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.29
- Gap at the open
- +4.9%
- Pre-market high
- $1.29 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.14 at 1:54 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.25
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.77
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +43.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.15 at 5:09 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 7.18 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.20 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 23.6×
- Float
- 23.57 million shares, from filings as of August 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 27.58 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 8,595 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 262,153 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 8.11 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (97%).
- Other days VWAV met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 28, 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 VWAV 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.
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