Small-Cap Gappers — Warrior scans.

Warrior Trading focuses on fast small-cap moves, often in the first hour or two: low float, prices from single digits to the low twenties, a news catalyst and extreme relative volume. Opening drives, first pullbacks and halt resumptions are examples. These stocks can reverse fast, so risk matters.

How the setup works

Small caps move fastest when supply is thin and demand shows up all at once. A low float means few shares trade, so news and heavy buying can push the price a long way in minutes. The usual checklist is a low-priced stock, a small float, a fresh catalyst, relative volume many times normal and a stock already up strongly on the day.

Most of the action is early. Traders build a watchlist premarket, then trade the opening drive, the first pullback that holds, or a breakout over the premarket high. Halts are part of the game: a stock halted on a fast move can resume sharply in either direction.

Scans to try

• Momentum♥ is built for exactly this: big day change, under $20, float under 30M, 5×+ relative volume.
• In Play♥ looks for a gap, news and volume together.
• Halted Now♥ and Halt Resumed♥ run off the official Nasdaq halt feed. Resumption plays show up as they happen.
• The whole gap workflow: Gap & Go♥, Gap Fade♥, Gap Fill♥ and Falling Into Gap♥.
• Float, float % and shares-outstanding filters plus Up On News♥: dial in how small and how catalyzed you want it.
• Alerts can reach you on Discord, Telegram, desktop or in the app when a stock qualifies.

A ZenBot workflow

1. Premarket, open Momentum♥ and Up On News♥ to see what is moving and why.
2. Tighten the float filter if you want only the thinnest names.
3. At the open, watch Gap & Go♥ for gappers holding their levels.
4. Keep Halted Now♥ and Halt Resumed♥ open for halt plays.
5. Send alerts to your phone through Telegram or Discord so a new runner reaches you even when you are not looking at the screen.

What to watch for

Low-float stocks can drop as fast as they rise, and spreads can be wide. Dilution, offerings and halts can turn a winner into a large loss. Size small, know the exit before entering, and treat the first hour as the window: many of these stocks fade later in the day.