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Friday, October 23, 2026OPEN NEWS WIRE →How to Use

Small-cap stocks gapping hard before the open are where day traders hunt, but most of them are just noise — thin volume, no real catalyst, gone by 9:35. This scan checks every morning gapper against five specific conditions real day-trading setups need, then freezes the list right at the open so you're working from one fixed watchlist, not chasing a number that's already stale. Headlines for names on the list are tagged on the News Wire.

Frozen two minutes before the bell. Nothing below has moved since — this is exactly the list that published, kept honest so the morning can be judged after the fact rather than quietly rewritten.

FILTERSgap ≥ 10% · $1–$100 · float ≤ 100.0M · premkt vol ≥ 50K · rel vol ≥ 0.25×

TODAY’S SCAN4 SCANNED

3names cleared all five

1 excluded — ranked below by how close they came.

Cleared all fiveranked by float rotation, the metric that actually separates this universe

Narrower: price <= $20, float <= 20M

YMATYMATProducer Manufacturing

8.64× FLOAT ROTATION1.1× ATRNO OPTIONSRSI 53.0

9:28 AM ET FROZEN$2.54+32.2%

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THE SETUPGapping +32.2% on 0.65× volume, 1.6M float. A screened candidate, not a trade signal.

GAP MAP — EACH BLOCK IS ONE DAILY ATR$0.6185 above yesterday’s close on a $0.5415 average daily range — 1.1× ATR, inside a normal day.

$1.92PRIOR CLOSE

$2.54PREMKT

GAP3.22× over

+32.2%

floor is 10% vs prior close

FLOAT63.4× under

1.6M

cap is 100.0M shares

PREMKT VOL273× over

13.6M

floor is 50K shares

RVOL2.59× over

0.65×

vs 10-day avg daily volume

ROUNDUPbenzinga · 2026-10-23T12:05:42.000Z

No verified catalyst

The only story on the wire is an auto-generated "stocks moving premarket" roundup — a consequence of the gap, not a cause. It is not sold here as a catalyst. Trade this as a pure technical gap.

STAKIndustrial Services

STAK

$1.84+10.2%

$1.67

0.9× ATR

—FLOAT ROTATION

0.45×Rel Vol

ROUNDUPThe only story on the wire is an auto-generated "stocks moving premarket" roundup — a consequence of the gap, not a cause. It is not sold here as a catalyst. Trade this as a pure technical gap.

BKYITechnology Services

BKYI

$3.28+19.7%

$2.74

0.9× ATR

2.02×FLOAT ROTATION

0.32×Rel Vol

Near misses1 of 1 shown

Sorted by how close they came to clearing, not alphabetically. The bar is the distance to the one filter that blocked them — a name at 84% is one more print away from the list, a name at 44% is not.

TICKERPRICEGAPBLOCKED BY — AND HOW CLOSEFLOATCATALYST

SAIQSAIQ

$6.73+27.5%

RVOL 0.13×52% of the 0.25× floor

2.2MROUNDUP

How the five filters are measured

Gap ≥ 10%HARD

Measured against yesterday's regular-session close, not the premarket open. Chart-vendor premarket-change fields anchor off a different close and under-report the move.

Price $1–$100HARD

Below a dollar the spread eats the trade before the thesis gets a chance. Above the cap the size a retail account can actually carry stops mattering.

Float ≤ 100.0MHARD

Small floats move. Rows where the provider has no float on file are kept and flagged as unknown — never silently dropped, and never counted as low-float.

Premkt vol ≥ 50KHARD

An absolute share floor that has to sit next to relative volume: on a thin, rarely-traded name the average-volume denominator is tiny, so a few thousand shares can print a huge ratio.

Rel Vol ≥ 0.25×SOFT

Premarket volume ÷ 10-day average daily volume — not a regular-session relative volume, which is meaningless before the bell. Soft: failing only this flags the row into Near misses instead of dropping it.

WHAT THIS PAGE WON’T DO

Call a roundup a catalyst. Auto-generated "stocks moving premarket" articles are a consequence of the gap. They get flagged as roundups, never sold as a reason.

Print a time the scan never ran. If a morning is missed, the page says so. It will not fall back to a plausible-looking 9:28 stamp.

Recommend anything. This is a filter result on a public universe. Every name here is a candidate to research, not a trade.