Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on November 4, 2026
VRAX, November 4: a run to $1.57
VRAX opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.57 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.18, on 3K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.16. It ran to $1.57 by 11:19 a.m.
The close
It closed at $1.18, 25% 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 8.4% at $1.16, then ran from the open to the high of $1.57 in 109 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:41 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.18 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.16, up 8.4% from the previous close |
| 10:44 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.07 |
| 11:19 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.57 |
| 11:21 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.32 million shares |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.18, 24.8% 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
- $1.07
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.16
- Gap at the open
- +8.4%
- Pre-market high
- $1.18 at 8:41 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.57 at 11:19 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.06
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.18
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +10.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.58 at 5:25 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.24 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.49 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 279.4×
- Float
- 1.32 million shares, from filings as of November 4, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.34 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2,724 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,769 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 4.73 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.32 million shares: past it once at 11:21 a.m., twice at 11:40 a.m., three times at 5:37 p.m.
- Other days VRAX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 5, 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 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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