Pre-Market Roundup · Fri 16 Oct 2026 · 09:25 New York

Today's top runners before the bell

Every morning we scan every small cap trading before the open and pick the five with real money behind the move. A short video, then the full picture in SuperAlerts.

Video each morning before the open·Blog every evening
Fri 16 Oct 2026 · 09:25 · ranked by gap

This morning's five

Up 5% or more, and either rotated half the float or traded $2M before the open.

Full pre-market screen ↗
#1
TGL+75%
Float
1.82M
PM $
$5.1M
Rotation
535%
Country
USA

Treasure Global posted higher fourth-quarter sales and a narrower loss, after signing a memorandum to distribute medical and pharmaceutical products in Malaysia.

#2
RUBI+56%
Float
2.69M
PM $
$13.1M
Rotation
848%
Country
Greece

Rubico pushed the deadline on a $3.7 million payment owed to TOP Ships to October 31, possibly settling it with convertible preferred shares.

#3
XLAB+31%
Float
14.27M
PM $
$32.3M
Rotation
133%
Country
USA

Exascale Labs agreed to sell twelve Nvidia GPU servers plus three years of IT operation services to Sunon for $8.2 million.

#4
TCRT+28%
Float
2.33M
PM $
$36.5M
Rotation
533%
Country
USA

Alaunos Therapeutics is acquiring Velaris Therapeutics and raised $350 million to fund pulmonary arterial hypertension programs through 2029.

#5
NCPL+28%
Float
4.38M
PM $
$27.9M
Rotation
251%
Country
USA

Netcapital said it has met Nasdaq's minimum bid price rule again, though it also faces a class action and SEC revenue allegations.

Float in millions of shares. PM $ is dollar volume traded 04:00–09:25. Rotation is pre-market volume as a share of the float.
SuperAlerts · 2026 so far

The state of SuperAlerts

The end-of-day screen for small caps that ran hard on real volume. We track what every alert did over the next five sessions, losers included.

Performance and calendar ↗
267
SuperAlerts in 2026
53%
reached +20% within 5 sessions
+21.8%
median best move, 5 sessions
−22.6%
median worst drawdown, 5 sessions
Results use the 260 alerts from 5 Jan to 14 Oct 2026 whose five sessions are complete. Alerts still inside their five sessions are marked open.
AlertTickerCountryWorst ◂ 0 ▸ best, 5 sessionsBest
14 OctAMTDopenFrance
+19.2%
13 OctTCRTopenUSA
+7.0%
13 OctJBDIopenSouth Korea
+71.0%
12 OctWBUYopenSingapore
+1.0%
12 OctMNDRopenSingapore
+5.0%
12 OctLNKSopenMalaysia
+0.0%
best move from entryworst drawdown from entryBars run from −60% to +80%