Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 25, 2026
TRUG on August 25, 2026: why it ran
On August 25, 2026, TRUG opened down 15.1% from the previous close of 0.6498 and reached 0.6498 at 4:58 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 0.6498
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 0.5519
- Gap at the open
- down 15.1%
- Pre-market high
- 0.6498 at 4:58 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.6498 at 4:58 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 0.5300
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.01 at 6:26 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 0.5847
- Volume
- 6.74 million
- Relative volume
- 3.0x
- Float
- 4.55 million shares, from filings as of August 25, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.57 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Replay TRUG's day
It starts at 10:55 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:58 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The day, step by step
- Small cap
- Momentum
- Main move: after hours
- News: law-firm alert
- Gap down open
- Lower high
- After-hours run
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.
Stop It's 2:26. TRUG is at $0.61, up from $0.55 an hour ago. The pre-market high was $0.65. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 2:26 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 2:23 p.m. ET.
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.
Stop It's 6:19 p.m. TRUG is at $0.77, up from $0.58 twenty minutes ago. A GlobeNewsWire headline just came out: "INVESTOR ALERT: Pomerantz Law Firm Reminds Investors with Losses on their Investment in TruGolf Holdings, Inc. of Class Action Lawsuit and Upcoming Deadlines – TRUG". Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 6:19 p.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 6:16 p.m. ET.
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.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for TRUG published between the previous session's close and the first minute TRUG traded 20% above it, at 6:19 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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INVESTOR ALERT: Pomerantz Law Firm Reminds Investors with Losses on their Investment in TruGolf Holdings, Inc. of Class Action Lawsuit and Upcoming Deadlines – TRUG
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Intraday run. It opened down 15.1% at 0.5519, then ran from the open to the high of 0.6276 in 284 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:58 a.m. | Pre-market high, 0.6498 | |
| 4:58 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 0.6498 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 0.5519, down 15.1% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 0.5847, 10.0% below the high | |
| 6:19 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): INVESTOR ALERT: Pomerantz Law Firm Reminds Investors with Losses on their Investment in TruGolf Holdings, Inc. of Class Action Lawsuit and Upcoming Deadlines – TRUG | |
| 6:19 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 0.6498 | |
| 6:41 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 4.55 million shares |
The shape is a fixed rule, not a judgement: gapped 10% or more at the open, ran 10% or more from the open to the high, and faded if it gave back 30% or more of that move by the close.
The day in numbers
- 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 (GlobeNewsWire, 6:19 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 288,397 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (4%), 26,616 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 6.42 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (95%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 4.55 million shares: past it once at 6:41 p.m.
- Other days TRUG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 18, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for TRUG that day.
On this date the LULD plan ran under Amendment 18, in force from February 24, 2020: no band doubling at the open, and the closing doubling only for Tier 1 stocks and Tier 2 stocks whose previous close was at or below three dollars. See LULD halts or work out a band with the LULD calculator.
Trade this day
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