Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 27, 2026
YAAS, August 27: a 7:30 headline, $4.45, and a $2.49 regular-session close
YAAS spiked to $4.45 before the open after news, then gave much of it back in the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
The 7:30 headline
The prior close was $2.52, and it barely traded early. At 7:30 a first-half results release came out, with a 6-K filed.
Stop It's 7:31. The price is $3.05. The previous close was $2.52, and the stock traded only a few hundred shares before 7:30. At 7:30 a press release came out with first-half financial results, and a 6-K was filed. In the 7:30 minute the stock went from $2.70 to a high of $3.11 and closed at $3.09 on 1,981 shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 7:28 a.m. and stop at 7:31 a.m. ET for your call.
It dipped to $2.50 first. Then the 7:33 minute hit $4.45, the day's high, on 316K shares.
Lower highs, then the slide
The top never came back. The next push stopped at $4.18 at 7:54. At 9:20 sell sweeps broke $3, and it hit $2.54 within two minutes.
The open and close
The open erased the rest. It opened at $2.63 and fell to $2.21 by 10:29. It closed the regular session at $2.49.
What to take from it: The first pop after the news was not the top, and the top never came back.
Replay YAAS's day
It starts at 7:28 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 7:31 a.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
Pre-market spike. Before the open it spiked 76.6% from $2.52 to $4.45 at 7:33 a.m.. It opened up 4.4% at $2.63 and traded at $2.49 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30 a.m. | News (PRNewsWire): Youxin Technology Ltd Reports First Half of Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Results | |
| 7:30 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.52 | |
| 7:33 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.45 | |
| 7:33 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.45 | |
| 7:52 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 5.64 million shares | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.63, up 4.4% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.49, 44.0% 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
- $2.52
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.63
- Gap at the open
- +4.4%
- Pre-market high
- $4.45 at 7:33 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.45 at 7:33 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.21
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.49
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −1.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.67 at 4:12 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 14.54 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 101,923
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 236.8×
- Float
- 5.64 million shares, from filings as of August 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.56 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (PRNewsWire, 7:30 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 13.25 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (91%), 525,868 in the first 30 minutes (4%), and 861,782 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (6%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 5.64 million shares: past it once at 7:52 a.m., twice at 8:37 a.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day YAAS met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 YAAS 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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