Watchlist Overview
The August 28, 2026 watchlists were built around first-day Nasdaq listings and low-float news names, with premarket flow into 9:14 AM ET clustered in AI/compute infrastructure, biotech catalysts, and micro-float tape. The Premarket Watchlist carried 10 names ($AEMD, $EPOW, $NCPL, $XTNT, $MODD, $WETO, $AVAT, $RYET, $OBAI, $CHOW) focused on medical devices, anode-contract industrials, squeeze mechanics, and listing-standard / municipal-software headlines. The Intraday Watchlist also listed 10 tickers ($FNGR, $QNRX, $PSQL, $WHLR, $CYAB, $XLAB, $GAP, $BRNX, $TNON, $EPOW), led by FingerMotion’s BlueFlare/Lyken.AI 8-K volume, Quoin’s QRX003 data plus $50M placement, and day-one discovery ranges in $PSQL and $XLAB. The only overlap between the two lists was $EPOW. Scanner context flagged binary open risk: continuation names needed to hold premarket VWAP and print higher lows on sustained RVOL, while wide listing-day ranges and dilution headlines were treated as fade candidates.
📊🔥 INTRADAY WATCHLIST RESULTS – August 28, 2026 🔥📊
+291.3% total P/L | Avg +29.13% across 10 tickers | Hit Rate: 100% 💪
The Movers:
1️⃣ $FNGR → Initial $0.3020 | High $0.7100 | 🔥 +135.1%
2️⃣ $QNRX → Initial $7.22 | High $8.25 | ✅ +14.3%
3️⃣ $PSQL → Initial $16.98 | High $20.10 | ✅ +18.4%
4️⃣ $WHLR → Initial $1.45 | High $1.55 | ✅ +7.3%
5️⃣ $CYAB → Initial $0.3700 | High $0.6300 | 🔥 +70.3%
6️⃣ $XLAB → Initial $6.20 | High $7.39 | ✅ +19.2%
7️⃣ $GAP → Initial $24.69 | High $25.80 | ✅ +4.5%
8️⃣ $BRNX → Initial $3.83 | High $4.25 | ✅ +11.0%
9️⃣ $TNON → Initial $5.46 | High $5.62 | ✅ +2.9%
🔟 $EPOW → Initial $0.5070 | High $0.5500 | ✅ +8.5%
🏆 Top Movers: 🥇 $FNGR (+135.1%) | 🥈 $CYAB (+70.3%) | 🥉 $XLAB (+19.2%)
Lessons: The real-time edge on August 28 belonged to high-RVOL news continuation ($FNGR, $CYAB) rather than the wide day-one listing ranges, which still printed green opens-to-highs but left far less of the premarket spike on the regular-session tape.
Final Thoughts
The August 28 intraday list delivered a clean 10-for-10 hit rate and +291.3% combined open-to-high performance, averaging +29.13% per name. The strategy worked best in catalyst-plus-volume micro/small caps: $FNGR’s AI data-center/8-K tape produced the session’s only triple-digit regular-hours extension, and $CYAB’s contract-driven squeeze was the other 🔥 runner. First-day Nasdaq names $PSQL and $XLAB both paid from the cash open into the day high, but they did not recreate their premarket discovery spikes, and offering-tied names like $QNRX and $TNON stayed modest after the open. $GAP was the lone large-float earnings name and behaved like a controlled large-cap beat rather than a scanner runner. Takeaway: the watchlist identified real continuation risk on Friday, but the money was in holding confirmed RVOL news names through the regular session—not chasing the first print on listing-day ranges or dilution headlines.