Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 14, 2026
VEEA, September 14: a quiet morning, a noon spike, and a $4.25 night
VEEA opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.35 during the session.
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
Noon: a wall at $2.00
The quiet morning ended at noon. A 95K-share bid sat at $2.00, about 5% of the float, while the stock pushed to $2.15.
Stop It's 12:19. VEEA is at $2.03, down from $2.15 four minutes ago. A bid wall of about 95,000 shares, which peaked at 12:14, has been sitting at $2.00, just below. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:16 p.m. and stop at 12:19 p.m. ET for your call.
The wall was pulled at 12:19:27. By 12:24 the stock hit $1.73, 20% off the high.
Afternoon climb
It climbed back all afternoon, from $1.96 at 2:58 to about $2.30.
Stop It's 3:56. VEEA is at $2.30, up from $1.96 at the 2:58 open. The 3:54 minute traded 39,369 shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:53 p.m. and stop at 3:56 p.m. ET for your call.
It printed $2.35 that minute, the regular-session high.
It closed at $2.29, up 47%.
After hours: merger news
The big move came after the bell. A merger headline hit at 4:42 p.m., and 104K shares traded that minute. The stock reached $4.25 by 7:54 p.m., the day's high.
What to take from it: A big bid wall can vanish; here it was pulled just before a 20% drop.
Replay VEEA's day
It starts at 11:59 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 12:02 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 2.6% at $1.60, then ran from the open to the high of $2.35 in 386 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 8:56 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.60 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.60, up 2.6% from the previous close | |
| 10:38 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.56 | |
| 3:56 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.35 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.29, 2.6% below the high | |
| 4:42 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.85 million shares |
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
- $1.56
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.60
- Gap at the open
- +2.6%
- Pre-market high
- $1.60 at 8:56 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.35 at 3:56 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.50
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.29
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +46.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.25 at 7:54 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.72 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 11.27 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 176.6×
- Float
- 1.85 million shares, from filings as of September 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.11 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 564 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 25,697 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 12.96 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.85 million shares: past it once at 4:42 p.m., twice at 4:59 p.m., three times at 5:13 p.m.
- Other days VEEA met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 7, the latest on October 13, 2026.
- The next session, September 15, 2026, it was up 149.3% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners, after-hours movers. 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for VEEA 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 VEEA on September 14, 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.