Recaps · August 25, 2026

TRUG, August 25: a quiet day, then $1.01 after hours

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: after hours
• News: law-firm alert
• Gap down open
• Lower high
• After-hours run

Float

4.55 million shares

Volume

6.74 million shares

Previous close

$0.6498

Open

$0.5519 (up 15.1%)

High

$0.6498 at 4:58 a.m.

Close

$0.5847

The day before

On August 24, TRUG opened at $0.86 and touched $0.87. It traded as low as $0.60 and ended with an official close of $0.65.

Pre-market: $0.65 and then drift

The first trade on the 25th was at 4:08 a.m., near $0.64. The pre-market high was $0.65 at 4:58 a.m., right at the previous close, on a 52-share minute.

Then it slid. At 6:38 and 6:39 it fell from about $0.63 to $0.60 on roughly 26,700 shares. By 7:45 it was at $0.58, and at 9:20 it touched $0.55. 288,397 shares traded before the bell. Many minutes had only a few hundred shares or fewer.

The open and the low

It opened at $0.55, 15% below the previous close. The first minute traded 8,769 shares and reached $0.57.

It drifted between about $0.55 and $0.58 for the next hour. Then at 10:24 it dropped to $0.53, the low so far, on 10,678 shares in that minute. That was 18% under the $0.65 pre-market high.

The bid wall at $0.54

The Level 2 book showed a large bid here. At 11:51:52 a bid wall showed up at $0.54. It peaked at 52,225 shares at 12:01:52, about 1.1% of the float. Between 11:51 and 1:36 p.m. the stock stayed between $0.54 and $0.56.

At 1:28 p.m. a single 10,000-share trade printed at $0.553, at the bid. From 1:38 the stock began to climb: $0.56 at 1:39, then $0.58 at 1:40 on 23,835 shares. It reached $0.61 at 1:59.

At 2:14 it had reached $0.63, a lower high under the $0.65 pre-market top. At 2:26:04 a sell order of 12,468 shares went through six price levels in 50 milliseconds, from $0.6074 down to $0.594. That minute closed at $0.594. By 2:59 it touched $0.56.

The rest of the afternoon chopped between $0.56 and $0.60. The last trade at 4:00 p.m. was $0.585. Regular-session volume was 300,814 shares.

After hours

After the bell it sat around $0.57 and $0.58 for almost two hours on very little volume. At 6:01 p.m. the volume picked up. By 6:03 it was at $0.65, back at the previous close. At 6:14 it hit $0.75 on over 100,000 shares in one minute.

Note the order. The run started at 6:01 p.m., eighteen minutes before the headline at 6:19. The headline only shows the time it was received. After it, the stock went to $0.88 by 6:22 and $1.01 in the 6:26 minute, on 298,010 shares in that single minute.

It fell back to $0.84 by 6:36 and traded between about $0.75 and $0.88 for the rest of the night. At 7:59 p.m. it was $0.81.

After hours traded 6,149,725 shares. The day's total volume passed the float (4.55 million) by about 6:41 p.m. For the whole day it was 6,738,936 shares, about 3 times normal volume. Nearly all of it came after the close.

What to take from it

• After the top, the next push stopped lower. $0.65 at 4:58 a.m., then $0.63 at 2:14 p.m.
• Check the order of events. The after-hours run began at 6:01 p.m. The headline was received at 6:19 p.m., after the stock was already near $0.77.
• Most of the day's volume can come after the close. Here, 6.1 million of 6.7 million shares traded after hours, while the regular session saw 300,814.