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📊 PREMARKET WATCHLIST PERFORMANCE REVIEW – AUGUST 31, 2026

Published on: August 31, 2026

Watchlist Overview

Monday’s lists were built for a classic low-float continuation tape after Friday’s 8/28 session, when AEHL, COOT, NCRA, JZ and YDDL printed green premarket, held versus the official open, and attracted whale prints, NBREAK/MOMENTUM/REV V alerts, and 0-borrow tags into the close and after-hours. Premarket focus stayed on micro- and small-cap industrials, packaged foods, waste management, IT services, robotics/AI infrastructure, leisure, and capital-markets names, with several floats under 2.5M (AEHL 1.15M, NCRA 1.35M, WETO 0.915M, JZ 2.29M, TRUG 1.89M) that can reverse 15–25% in a single five-minute candle. Across both published lists there were 20 tickers (10 premarket, 10 intraday) with notable overlap in AEHL, NCRA, YDDL, and WETO; the companion intraday sheet leaned more into same-day healthcare and IP catalysts (RDHL, AIM, SY) while premarket stayed on Friday’s continuation leaders. Weekend positioning was described as light, so Monday’s job was simple: only names that stayed green versus Friday’s open and reclaimed VWAP with expanding volume were to be worked; gaps that printed lower highs or lost the open in the first 30–60 minutes were fades.

📊🔥 PREMARKET WATCHLIST RESULTS – August 31, 2026 🔥📊

+550.0% total P/L | Avg +55.00% across 10 tickers | Hit Rate: 90% 💪

The Movers:
1️⃣ $AEHL → Initial $3.54 | High $8.48 | 🔥 +139.5%
2️⃣ $COOT → Initial $0.460 | High $0.738 | 🔥 +60.4%
3️⃣ $NCRA → Initial $1.89 | High $3.52 | 🔥 +86.2%
4️⃣ $YDDL → Initial $1.65 | High $2.63 | 🔥 +59.4%
5️⃣ $JZ → Initial $1.33 | High $1.47 | ✅ +10.5%
6️⃣ $WETO → Initial $5.72 | High $14.00 | 🔥 +144.8%
7️⃣ $SOAR → Initial $0.217 | High $0.259 | ✅ +19.4%
8️⃣ $TRUG → Initial $0.463 | High $0.512 | ✅ +10.6%
9️⃣ $FTFT → Initial $2.22 | High $2.21 | ❌ -0.4%
🔟 $NCPL → Initial $0.692 | High $0.827 | ✅ +19.5%

🏆 Top Movers: 🥇 $WETO (+144.8%) | 🥈 $AEHL (+139.5%) | 🥉 $NCRA (+86.2%)

Lessons: Friday’s sub-2.5M continuation names with whale flow and 0-borrow tags (WETO, AEHL, NCRA, YDDL, COOT) were the entire edge on Monday — size small and demand VWAP reclaim, because the one failed hold (FTFT, also dealing with a 1-for-4 reverse split) went nowhere.

Final Thoughts

The August 31 premarket watchlist was highly effective as a continuation screen: 9 of 10 names printed a green high versus Friday’s official close, the book gained +550.0% on a high-to-prior-close basis, and the average name ran +55.00%. What worked was the exact theme the sheet was built around — low-float Friday leaders with whale prints, 0-borrow/Reg SHO pressure, and Form 6-K / 8-K flow — not broad index strength. WETO and AEHL were the standouts, both more than doubling off Friday’s close, with NCRA, COOT, and YDDL also delivering 50%+ expansion; the overlap names that also appeared on the same-day intraday list (AEHL, NCRA, YDDL, WETO) were the ones that kept running once the cash session opened, while higher-float or already-extended leftovers such as SOAR, TRUG, JZ, and NCPL only managed orderly teens-or-less pops. FTFT was the lone miss and a reminder that a reverse split plus a failed hold of Friday’s close is a fade, not a chase. Takeaway: on this date the premarket process did its job — isolate the tightest floats that finished Friday green with stacked bids, then only press the ones that stay green versus Friday’s open and reclaim VWAP with expanding volume.

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