Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 26, 2026
YYGH, August 26: $2.61 at 7:00 a.m., and three walls that were eaten
YYGH opened up 69% after news, ran to $2.14, and held most of the move into the close.
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What happened
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News and the early high
After the August 25 close at $1.15, news broke: YY Group cancelled all its outstanding warrants. By 4:23 a.m. more shares had traded than its 3.86M-share float, and it hit $2.61 at 7:00 a.m., the high of the day.
The $1.85 bid
After the open, a big bid built up at $1.85. It peaked near 105K shares at 10:16.
Stop It's 10:17. YYGH is at $1.85. A bid of more than 100,000 shares has been sitting at $1.85 since 10:15. The stock has been drifting down to it. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:14 a.m. and stop at 10:17 a.m. ET for your call.
Sellers ate it. 100K shares traded at $1.85 in 3.4 seconds, and the bid was gone. By 10:24 it was back at $1.89.
The $1.97 ask
Midday, ask walls kept appearing just above the price. Another sat at $1.97.
Stop It's 12:16. YYGH is at $1.97. An ask wall has been sitting at $1.97 since 12:10, more than 100,000 shares at its peak, and volume has been thin. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:13 p.m. and stop at 12:16 p.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate it at 12:16:06. 93K shares traded at $1.97 that second.
It didn't run. The regular session closed just under $2.14.
What to take from it: Both walls broke in seconds, and neither break started a run.
Replay YYGH's day
It starts at 11:13 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 11:16 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
Gap and go. It gapped up 68.7% to $1.94 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $2.14 in 389 minutes, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 3% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 4:10 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): YY Group Eliminates $5.94 Million Second Financing Tranche and Cancels All Outstanding Warrants | |
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.15 | |
| 4:23 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 3.86 million shares | |
| 7:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.61 | |
| 7:00 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.61 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.94, up 68.7% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.13, 18.2% 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
- $1.15
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.94
- Gap at the open
- +68.7%
- Pre-market high
- $2.61 at 7:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.61 at 7:00 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.77
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.13
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +85.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.20 at 4:47 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 44.06 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.06 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 40.8×
- Float
- 3.86 million shares, from filings as of August 26, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 7.84 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 11 hours 50 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, Aug 25, 4:10 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 30.81 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (67%), 4.27 million in the first 30 minutes (9%), and 11.03 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (24%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 3.86 million shares: past it once at 4:23 a.m., twice at 5:54 a.m., three times at 6:24 a.m.
- Other days YYGH met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 25, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 YYGH 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.
Analysis
Written by AI from the facts above and checked against them, number by number. A reading of the price action, not advice.
YYGH gapped up after the financing news hit the tape the evening before, and most of the day's volume came before the bell: 30.81 million shares traded ahead of the open, with the 3.86 million share float turned over once by 4:23 a.m. The pre-market high of 2.61 came at 7:00 a.m., which also stayed the high of the day, so the stock opened at 1.94 well below that peak. From there it ran up to 2.14 by 3:59 p.m. and finished at 2.13, holding most of the open-to-high move. The exchange's halt feed shows no halts, so the whole path was a continuous tape, and after-hours trading reached 2.20 at 4:47 p.m.
Trade this day
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