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TheDesperateTrader.com· Biggest gap ups & downs · Friday, Aug 28
The biggest gap ups and gap downs from Friday, Aug 28, ranked by the opening gap versus the prior close. Each row shows whether the gap filled (traded back to the prior close) or held, plus how it finished versus the open (o/o), the gap-and-go tell. Liquidity-filtered and split-adjusted.
As of Fri, Aug 28 close
How gaps behaved on Friday, Aug 28
a gap-and-go session - most gaps heldGap ups30 stocks
57% held43% filled
Gap downs30 stocks
80% held20% filled
A gap holds when price never trades back to the prior close, the gap-and-go setup. It fills when it does, the fade setup. When most gaps fill, buying the open is the losing side of the tape that day.
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No card · 5 premium days Biggest Gap Ups · 3017 held
1
QNRXHeld4Quoin Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. American Depositary Shares+40.1%$6.12 · -15.2% o/o
2
AEMDHeld4AETHLON MEDICAL INC+34.6%$2.49 · -14.7% o/o
3
WHLRFilled7Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc+29.0%$1.07 · -26.0% o/o
4
ESTCHeld17Elastic N.V.+24.1%$99.91 · -3.8% o/o
5
GAPHeld9The Gap, Inc.+18.7%$23.48 · -4.9% o/o
6
SOLSHeld2Solstice Advanced Materials Inc. Common Stock+15.4%$63.53 · -2.3% o/o
7
AFRMHeld19Affirm Holdings, Inc. Class A Common Stock+11.0%$77.76 · -9.6% o/o
8
MODDFilled1Modular Medical, Inc. Common Stock+9.7%$3.46 · -12.6% o/o
9
HYLNHeldHyliion Holdings Corp.+9.4%$3.51 · -5.9% o/o
10
TNONFilled3Tenon Medical, Inc. Common Stock+8.8%$5.00 · -8.4% o/o
11
XPONFilled3Expion Energy, Inc. Common Stock+8.7%$7.45 · -14.0% o/o
12
UMCHeld8United Microelectronic Corp.+8.3%$19.79 · -4.2% o/o
13
NABLHeld2N-able, Inc.+7.6%$4.19 · -1.4% o/o
14
RGNXFilled1REGENXBIO Inc.+6.7%$9.66 · -3.4% o/o
15
PALLHeld9abrdn Physical Palladium Shares ETF+6.6%$25.79 · -1.5% o/o
16
KLARHeld11Klarna Group plc+6.5%$14.20 · -4.8% o/o
17
ORIOHeld1Orion Digital Corp. Common Shares+5.7%$1.09 · +18.5% o/o
18
JUNSFilled4Jupiter Neurosciences, Inc. Common Stock+5.3%$4.18 · -18.8% o/o
19
NAFilled1Nano Labs Ltd Class A Ordinary Shares+5.2%$2.22 · -0.4% o/o
20
BEKEHeld11KE Holdings Inc. American Depositary Shares (each representing three Class A Ordinary Shares)+5.0%$18.32 · -1.6% o/o
21
JZFilled13Jianzhi Education Technology Group Company Limited American Depositary Shares+4.8%$1.33 · -18.4% o/o
22
IQMXFilledIQM Quantum Computers Oyj American Depositary Shares+4.5%$10.59 · -6.3% o/o
23
SBSWFilled8Sibanye-Stillwater American Depositary Shares, each representing four ordinary shares+4.1%$12.09 · -5.3% o/o
24
WITFilled5Wipro Limited+3.9%$1.82 · -2.7% o/o
25
CHRNFilled3ChronoScale Holdings Corporation Common Stock+3.9%$18.74 · -13.0% o/o
26
NCTHeld5Intercont (Cayman) Limited Class A Ordinary shares+3.9%$4.87 · +0.4% o/o
27
IOTRFillediOThree Limited Ordinary Shares+3.7%$2.45 · -3.5% o/o
28
PDHeld7PagerDuty, Inc.+3.6%$13.83 · +5.7% o/o
29
SWVLHeld6Swvl Holdings Corp Class A Common Shares+3.6%$3.12 · +36.2% o/o
30
STLAHeld6Stellantis N.V.+3.6%$5.42 · -0.9% o/o
Biggest Gap Downs · 3024 held
1
KXINFilled32Kaixin Holdings Ordinary Shares-53.3%$1.43 · +104.3% o/o
2
BCABHeld1BioAtla, Inc. Common Stock-49.7%$1.74 · +9.8% o/o
3
WCTFilled15Wellchange Holdings Company Limited Class A Ordinary shares-47.1%$1.09 · +175.1% o/o
4
VISNHeld10Vistance Networks, Inc. Common Stock-41.5%$6.06 · -10.9% o/o
5
AEHLHeld60Antelope Enterprise Holdings Limited Class A Ordinary Shares-39.5%$3.54 · +14.9% o/o
6
LGPSHeld36LogProstyle Inc.-27.0%$1.06 · -4.5% o/o
7
XAIRHeld9Beyond Air, Inc. Common Stock-23.0%$4.48 · +2.1% o/o
8
SMJFHeld4SMJ International Holdings Inc.-22.4%$1.11 · -2.6% o/o
9
WETOHeld41Wetour Robotics Limited Ordinary Shares-17.2%$5.72 · -39.9% o/o
10
PPCBHeld2Propanc Biopharma, Inc. Common Stock-13.5%$1.35 · -30.1% o/o
11
PYPYHeld1YieldMax PYPL Option Income Strategy ETF-13.0%$26.15 · -0.5% o/o
12
PYPLHeld5PayPal Holdings, Inc. Common Stock-12.6%$53.66 · -0.1% o/o
13
CISSHeldC3is Inc. Common Stock-11.7%$1.81 · -3.7% o/o
14
DAICHeld9CID HoldCo, Inc. Common Stock-10.6%$4.64 · -9.9% o/o
15
USDEFilled16StablecoinX Inc. Class A Common Stock-10.3%$6.76 · -6.6% o/o
16
WNWHeldMeiwu Technology Company Limited Ordinary Shares-9.1%$2.79 · -7.3% o/o
17
KZIAHeld3Kazia Therapeutics Limited American Depositary Shares-8.4%$13.58 · -12.3% o/o
18
LPTHHeld16Lightpath Technologies Inc-8.3%$11.23 · -11.2% o/o
19
BNTXHeld3BioNTech SE American Depositary Share-8.1%$102.08 · -0.3% o/o
20
IPSTHeldIP Strategy Holdings, Inc. Common Stock-7.9%$4.15 · -4.4% o/o
21
RBRKFilled15Rubrik, Inc.-7.5%$93.05 · -6.0% o/o
22
OLOXHeld1Olenox Industries Inc. Common Stock-7.5%$1.09 · -12.1% o/o
23
IRENHeld14IREN Limited Ordinary Shares-7.1%$35.45 · -5.8% o/o
24
MRVLHeld9Marvell Technology, Inc. Common Stock-6.7%$216.62 · -3.8% o/o
25
INHDFilled3Inno Holdings Inc. Common Stock-6.0%$5.61 · -0.5% o/o
26
YYGHHeld1YY Group Holding Limited Class A Ordinary Shares-5.8%$1.55 · -13.9% o/o
27
CCLDHeldCareCloud, Inc. Common Stock-5.6%$2.49 · -0.8% o/o
28
SHeld6SentinelOne, Inc.-5.4%$21.54 · +0.2% o/o
29
SDOTFilled3Sadot Group Inc. Common Stock-5.3%$14.51 · -5.5% o/o
30
CYTKHeld10Cytokinetics Inc.-5.2%$72.09 · -2.4% o/o
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about stock gaps, QNRX led the gap ups at +40.1%.
- What is a gap in stock trading?
- A gap is the difference between a stock's regular-session opening price and the prior day's closing price. A gap up opens higher than yesterday's close; a gap down opens lower. This scanner ranks the biggest gaps from Friday, Aug 28 among liquid stocks (price of $1+ and at least $1M in dollar volume), split-adjusted so a stock split never shows as a fake gap.
- What does it mean when a gap "fills"?
- A gap fills when the price trades all the way back to the prior close during the session, for a gap up, the day's low reaches the prior close; for a gap down, the day's high reaches it. A gap that never returns to the prior close "held." Filled vs held is shown as a badge on every row, because whether a gap holds is one of the most-watched tells for gap-and-go versus fade setups.
- What is a gap and go?
- Gap and go is a day-trading setup where a stock gaps up on a catalyst and keeps running from the open instead of filling the gap. The "o/o" figure on each row shows how the stock finished versus its open, a positive number on a gap up means it held or extended off the open (a gap-and-go tendency), while a negative number means it faded.
- Why do stocks gap up or down?
- The usual catalysts are earnings, guidance, FDA or clinical news, analyst rating changes, mergers, and overnight macro or futures moves. Because most of the reaction happens before the open, the gap captures the market's repricing in a single number. This page is information, not investment advice.
- How often does the gap scanner update?
- It refreshes each session from the latest completed trading day's open and close. For live intraday action, watch the real-time RVOL and halt scanners and the Stock Market Today board across the rest of the site.
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