CRE on August 26, 2026: why it ran

The day, step by step

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: pre-market and the open
• Catalyst: news
• Round-number walls
• No halts
• Float traded 20x
• Run and fade

Pre-market: the float traded by 7:44 a.m.

The previous close was $2.59. The first trades on the 26th were tiny: a few dozen shares around $2.58 at 6:45 a.m., then almost nothing until 7:40.

At 7:40 a.m. GlobeNewsWire ran the headline “Cre8 Enterprise Limited Reports Record Number of Customers Served for the First Half of 2026”. That minute 18,109 shares traded. The next minute the stock hit $5.29 at 7:41 a.m., up 106% from $2.57. By 7:42 it had dipped to $4.17, and at 7:43 it touched $7.91.

By 7:44 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (1.48 million).

After that it swung hard. It fell to $6.01 at 7:45, then ran to the pre-market high of $8.25 at 7:49. By 7:52 it was back at $6.57. Another push touched $8.24 at 7:59, and the next minute traded as low as $6.22.

At 8:02 a.m. the company filed a 6-K (a foreign company's current report). The stock hit $5.94 at 8:03. It climbed to $7.94 at 8:21 and fell to $6.12 at 8:53. About 11.86 million shares traded before the bell. There were no halts all day.

The wall at $7.00

From 9:03 a.m. on, someone was offering stock at exactly $7.00.

The open was $6.13, up 137% from the previous close. A single 22,171-share trade printed at $6.09 at 9:30:00. The 9:30 minute ran between $5.82 and $6.80. By 9:32 it was pressing on the wall.

Here's what happened. The wall peaked at 37,828 shares at 9:32:35, about 2.6% of the float. At 9:32:37 the first trade printed at $7.00. In under a second, 36,165 shares traded at exactly $7.00 and the wall was gone. It wasn't pulled. Buyers ate it. The minute's high was $7.40.

The push did not hold. By 9:42 a.m. the volume was ten times the float. At 9:41 the stock traded as low as $6.08, and it fell to $5.67 at 9:49, the low since the open.

The wall at $7.30

At 9:52 a second ask wall appeared, this time at $7.30. It peaked at 32,568 shares the moment it was first seen. The stock spent the next ten minutes between about $6.00 and $6.40.

At 10:02:15 a buy order for 37,701 shares swept through 19 price levels, from $6.37 to $6.55.

The wall was pulled at 10:03:37, though 10,943 shares traded at exactly $7.30 in the second just before. At 10:03:56 another buy order, 46,175 shares, swept 22 levels from $7.39 to $7.60. That push topped at $8.15 at 10:04, up 40% from $5.82 at 9:50.

Then it gave a lot back. The 10:08 candle dropped to $6.24, down 23% from $8.15.

The wall at $8.00

From 10:15 an ask wall sat at $8.00. It peaked at 33,145 shares at 10:18:57. Meanwhile the stock climbed from $6.45 at 10:09 to $7.88 at 10:19. At 10:20:39 a 28,514-share sell order pushed it from $7.62 down to $7.46.

At 10:26:20, 23,354 shares traded at exactly $8.00 and a 42,400-share buy order swept from $8.00 to $8.17. The wall was eaten at 10:26:21.

At 10:26:53 two more buy orders (36,896 and 43,039 shares) swept up from $8.13 through $8.26 to $8.60, the high of the day, up 232% from the previous close. The 10:26 minute traded 539,126 shares.

Within two minutes it was back at $7.08 (the 10:28 low). A 28,426-share sell order ran from $7.62 to $7.44 at 10:28:08.

A lower high, then the fade

It came back once more. At 10:36 it pushed to $8.20, a lower high under the $8.60 top. At 10:37:04 a 30,777-share sell order walked it from $7.79 to $7.50. At 10:48 a new $8.00 ask wall appeared. It peaked at 40,645 shares at 2:32 p.m.

A bid wall had been sitting at $6.00 since 10:09. At 10:59 the stock dropped to $6.50 in one minute. The bid wall peaked at 41,906 shares at 11:15. It was pulled at 12:32:56. At 12:38 a 28,557-share sell order swept from $6.08 to $5.99, and the afternoon's low was $5.85 at 12:40.

The afternoon was quiet, mostly between $6.00 and $6.50. At 1:29 a 25,878-share buy order lifted it from $6.29 to $6.53. A $7.68 ask wall appeared at 1:30 and was pulled at 1:35. The stock closed the regular session at $6.77.

After hours it reached $7.23 at 4:37 p.m. and traded at $6.02 in the last minute, 7:59 p.m. About 827,000 shares traded after hours.

By the close, 16.22 million shares had traded in the regular session. Counting pre-market and after hours, the day came to 28.91 million shares: the float changed hands about 19.6 times, and volume was about 764 times normal (normal is about 38,000 shares a day).

What to take from it

• Two of the ask walls at round numbers broke in under a second. The $7.00 wall was gone in 0.3 seconds, and the first $8.00 wall went the same way. A second $8.00 wall that appeared at 10:48 was never taken out. A wall is a level, not a guarantee of a ceiling.
• Buying right after a wall breaks costs more than the screen says. The book above is thin. Here 5,000 shares cost $138 and $1,242 more than the screen showed right after the two walls broke, and $147 more at the high.
• After the top, the next push stopped lower. $8.60 at 10:26, then $8.20 at 10:36. The stock closed at $6.77.

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