Penny Stock List Today: Five Small-Caps That Ran +65% to +98%

TLDR

• Five small-caps carried last week's runner list (Aug 31-Sep 04): BIAF +97.7%, FCUV +83.5%, CHPT +80.0%, SWVL +73.0%, and GELS +64.8% open-to-close over the 4-day window.
• GELS printed the widest single-session window: a +107.5% MFE from a $0.53 low to a $1.10 high on Sept 2, on 71.6M shares (950.4x ADV).
• Macro call is Small-Cap Leadership — Russell 2000 (IWM) at $296.01 sits within 5% of its 52-week high while carrying a -1.8% 20-day read, and small caps are outperforming large caps.
• Electrical Equipment RVOL rotated in +135% week-over-week — CHPT sits squarely in that lane.
• Scanner pattern activity ran light: 60 patterns completed last week versus a 90-day weekly average of 168.8. Quality over quantity.

What a "Penny Stock List Today" Should Actually Show You

A useful penny stock list today is not a static top-10 of tickers — it is a ranked read of which small-caps are trading on real relative volume, where the max favorable excursion (MFE) actually paid, and which names have follow-through structure behind the move. Below is the live view of the most recent session's top movers, then the forensic breakdown of last week's five featured runners.

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The table above updates each session. The rest of this digest is the deeper read: what ran last week, how the intraday windows paid, and — for each name — how you could have flagged it before the run using scanner filters and filing data. Every number here is pulled straight from the platform; no estimates.

Scanner Highlights: The Five Runners That Carried the Tape

Five featured small-caps posted 4-day open-to-close gains between +64.8% and +97.7% across Sept 1-4, and the volume split tells you which ones were tradable size and which were thin-float pops. Here is the runner window for each.

Two tiers show up immediately. BIAF (131.6M total), CHPT (59.2M), and GELS (142.5M) traded institutional-grade liquidity across the window — these are the names you can actually size into and out of. FCUV (2.7M total) and SWVL (3.2M) ran just as hard on price but on thin volume; those are tape you scalp small, not names you build a position in. Same gain column, completely different execution reality.

Set against history, last week's tape was runner-heavy — 22 names ran ≥50% versus a 4-week baseline of ~8.0 runners per week. That is roughly 2.75x the normal count of 50%+ movers, and the four Tuesdays leading in averaged a 208.3% top gain. The setup pool was rich; the featured five were the cleanest of it.

A $10,000 position held open-to-close on BIAF returned $9,770 (+97.7%). The same base on CHPT captured $8,000 (+80.0%), FCUV returned $8,350 (+83.5%), and SWVL returned $7,300 (+73.0%). These are the realistic open-to-close captures — not the theoretical low-to-high.

GELS: A +107.5% Intraday Window on 950x Average Volume

GELS delivered the widest single-session MFE of the featured group — a +107.5% move from a $0.53 full-day low to a $1.10 full-day high on Sept 2, on 71.6M shares against 950.4x its average daily volume. That is the definition of a catalyst-triggered volume regime change: a name that normally trades in a whisper printing nearly a thousand times its baseline.

The intraday session read on Sept 2: pre-market pushed a $0.80 high, the regular session opened $0.57, ran to a $0.83 high, based at a $0.53 low, and closed $0.69 (+21.3% on the day at the market close). The $1.10 full-day high came outside the regular session — the after-hours print is where the top-tick lived. That gap between the market close ($0.69) and the day high ($1.10) is exactly why session-aware MFE matters: a trader anchored only to the regular-session high left more than a third of the move on the table.

A $10,000 position timed to the $0.53 low and exited near the $1.10 high returned $20,750 (+107.5%). The more realistic open-to-close on the 4-day window — $0.54 to $0.89 — captured $6,480 (+64.8%). GELS also showed up in the pattern engine as one of the week's stocks that doubled intraday, tagged with a $1.1 high.

One structural note without editorializing: GELS operates with negative cash (operating in the hole), one of four names in that runway tier alongside PMI, FEED, and LHSW. A cash-negative small-cap running on 950x volume is the profile where financing risk and momentum coexist — the market-maker probe higher can front-run a raise, and the raise can end the run. You trade the momentum and respect the overhang. The specific catalyst behind the Sept 2 spike was not identified in available press releases, which makes this a pure volume-and-structure trade, not a news trade.

How you could have caught GELS before it ran: the tell was RVOL, not news. A scanner sorted by relative volume with a floor around 5x would have surfaced GELS long before the $1.10 print — 71.6M shares at 950.4x ADV does not sneak up on a live RVOL feed. This is why the SNACS scanner leads with RVOL and Velocity columns rather than raw price change.

CHPT and the Electrical Equipment Rotation

CHPT ran +80.0% open-to-close ($5.50 to $9.90) over the 4-day window on 43.9M max daily volume, and it sits directly inside the sector that rotated in hardest last week. Electrical Equipment RVOL jumped from 1.21 to 2.83 week-over-week — a +135% rotation into the group. When a sector's relative volume more than doubles and a liquid name inside it runs 80%, that is capital moving with conviction, not a one-off pop.

The broader rotation map is worth memorizing because it is where next week's runners tend to incubate:

CHPT's Electrical Equipment lane is the same rotation we mapped in the DAIC electrical-equipment weekly playbook, and Transportation Equipment's +7,145% surge is the theme behind GPRO's +183% transportation-equipment run. Rotation persistence is one of the cleaner edges in small-caps: the sector that lit up this week is where you point the scanner next week.

How you could have caught CHPT before it ran: the sector RVOL shift preceded the price. A scanner grouped or filtered by sector, watching for a group whose average RVOL crosses 2x, would have flagged Electrical Equipment heating up before CHPT's biggest volume day. The specific company catalyst for CHPT was not identified in available press releases — the tradable signal was the rotation and the volume, both visible on the tape.

BIAF, FCUV, and SWVL: The Rest of the Featured Five

BIAF led the featured group at +97.7% open-to-close and was the runaway name on last week's close-to-close leaderboard at +215.9% ($4.83 to $15.26), a figure carrying a post-split rebase flag. Present the facts and let them stand: BIAF closed the week at $15.26 on 46.4M shares on its heaviest day and 131.6M total across the window. It is a Services-sector name, and the specific catalyst was not identified in available press releases — the move was liquidity and momentum.

FCUV (+83.5%, $9.96 to $18.28) and SWVL (+73.0%, $2.82 to $4.88) are the thin-float members of the group. FCUV moved on 2.7M total shares and SWVL on 3.2M — real percentage gains, but liquidity that punishes size and widens slippage. SWVL is the same Technology-sector continuation name we flagged in the Monday Morning Brief on August 31, where it appeared as a multi-day continuation candidate before this run extended. Neither FCUV nor SWVL surfaced a verified press-release catalyst; both are structure-and-momentum trades, scalped small.

How you could have caught these before they ran: BIAF was a big-volume gainer visible on any RVOL scan; FCUV and SWVL were thin-float continuation names better caught through a saved multi-day-runner scan than through a same-day volume alert. This is the case for a Dynamic Watchlist — link a saved "gained 50%+ over 5 days" scan to a watchlist and the continuation candidates auto-populate as they qualify.

Pattern Activity: Fewer Setups, Full Follow-Through

Last week ran below the 90-day norm on count but held perfect follow-through on the patterns that did fire. The scanner logged 60 completed patterns versus a 90-day weekly average of 168.8 — a quiet week by volume, but every setup that triggered reached completion.

The 30-day structural read is stronger still. The high-volume breakout pattern — names trading 100M+ shares intraday — has posted 100% follow-through across 114 triggers, all hitting target with none left open. The intraday-doubling pattern — price doubling from session low to session high — stands at 100% follow-through across 204 triggers. GELS's Sept 2 session is a textbook member of that doubling group.

The 37 liquidity tests are the quiet tell most traders miss. These are market-maker probes — price sweeping a level to test supply and demand before the real move, or insiders building position ahead of a catalyst. We broke the mechanics down in Trading the Probe, and the pattern math sits in Pattern Recognition for Penny Stocks. When a name gets probed and then a sector RVOL rotation confirms behind it, that is your two-signal alignment.

Filing Activity and the Dilution Backdrop

Registration and offering activity ran light over the past three days, which fits a runner-heavy tape where momentum — not fresh paper — drove the moves. The exact counts:

A single 424B5 in three days is a genuinely quiet offering window — for context on how a single pricing supplement can precede a run, see the WCT filing forensic. The broader standing dilution backdrop is deep regardless of any single week (approximate counts; exact totals withheld): ~6,000 active warrant facilities, ~3,200 shelves, ~2,100 ATM programs, ~1,500 convertible notes, ~900 convertible preferred, ~700 S-1 offerings, and ~500 equity lines across the tracked universe. That standing overhang is why a cash-negative runner like GELS carries structural risk even with zero fresh filings last week.

The dilution playbook cuts both ways. Buying blindly into an active shelf or ATM is buying into supply. But market makers and the company often push a name up before pricing into strength — the pre-offering run is a real, fast-trader window. The tool that separates the two is the ticker details page: click any ticker in the scanner to open its dilution risk panel — active shelf, ATM, and warrant facilities — alongside recent filings, without leaving the stream. The SEC research dilution snapshot gives you the same read with facility counts and lowest exercise price. Two paths, same data.

Macro Backdrop: Small-Cap Leadership Intact

The macro call is Small-Cap Leadership, and the index proxies confirm small caps are the tell to watch. Russell 2000 (IWM) closed at $296.01, sitting -3.0% from its 52-week high of $305.18 and within 5% of that high, on a -1.8% 20-day read — the softest 20-day of the four major proxies, which is exactly the coiled setup that precedes small-cap catch-up.

When small caps lead and IWM holds within 5% of its high, breakouts in individual names carry better follow-through — the 100% completion reads on the high-volume and intraday-doubling patterns are the same environment expressed at the single-name level. On the macro news tape, Tech/AI dominated with 138 articles, well ahead of China (14), Oil/Energy (14), Crypto (10), and Inflation (4). None of the featured five traded on a macro headline; they traded on volume and rotation.

What's Setting Up Next

The forward read points at rotation persistence and continuation structure. Transportation Equipment (+7,145% RVOL) and Paper (+2,152%) are the two hottest rotation lanes — point the scanner at fresh names inside those groups before the crowd does. Electrical Equipment (+135%) is the confirmed lane that already produced CHPT; continuation there is the higher-probability follow.

On continuation, the multi-day runner list is the incubator: BIAF, CHPT, and GELS all carried 4-day structure with real volume, and the week-arc history shows the most common pattern is steady-to-slow, with explosive Mondays rarely fading by Friday (0 of 1 faded in the last 8 weeks). Watch whether this week opens steady or explosive — that Monday tone sets the ceiling. And keep the oversold bounce watchlist live: three names printed RSI under 30 last week (BIOT at 2.4, BDRX at 8.4, TWG at 11.0) — capitulation-bounce candidates if volume returns.

Scanner Setup of the Week

Here is the exact configuration that would have surfaced last week's featured five before the biggest volume day. Build it in the SNACS scanner and save it as a colored preset.

• RVOL: 5x minimum (GELS printed 950.4x — the floor just filters noise)
• Volume: 10M+ intraday to keep execution real (this is what separates BIAF/CHPT/GELS from the thin FCUV/SWVL tape)
• Price: $0.50–$20 to stay in the small-cap runner band
• Sort: RVOL descending, so the 950x names top the stream
• Overlay: the Dilution Alerts column plus sector grouping, so a rotating sector like Electrical Equipment lights up before price confirms

Then convert it into a Dynamic Watchlist: link the saved scan to a watchlist so qualifying tickers auto-populate in real time — a scanner within a scanner. Matched names show a colored square in the main stream. Add a Playbook pattern for the intraday-doubling structure and the star indicator will flag live matches on the same screen. And once you are in trades, the trading journal AI Insights read will tell you your actual MFE capture rate — the gap between the +107.5% GELS offered and the +64.8% a realistic open-to-close captured is exactly the number that pass tells you to work on.

For the deeper 5x-RVOL context, the 20-ticker volume surge digest covers the same scan applied to the Sept 1 tape.

FAQ

What is the penny stock list today?

Today's featured small-cap runner list is led by five names that ran +64.8% to +97.7% open-to-close over the Sept 1-4 window: BIAF (+97.7%), FCUV (+83.5%), CHPT (+80.0%), SWVL (+73.0%), and GELS (+64.8%). GELS offered the widest single-session move at a +107.5% MFE. For the live current-session list, use the top-movers table near the top of this article, which updates each session with ticker, percentage change, volume, float, and market cap.

Which penny stock had the biggest intraday move last week?

GELS had the widest single-session window with a +107.5% MFE, running from a $0.53 full-day low to a $1.10 full-day high on Sept 2. It traded 71.6M shares that day against 950.4x its average daily volume, and it also registered as one of the week's stocks that doubled intraday.

How much could you have made trading these penny stocks?

A $10,000 open-to-close position returned $9,770 on BIAF (+97.7%), $8,350 on FCUV (+83.5%), $8,000 on CHPT (+80.0%), and $7,300 on SWVL (+73.0%). GELS timed to its $0.53 low and $1.10 high returned $20,750 (+107.5% MFE); the realistic open-to-close capture on GELS was $6,480 (+64.8%). MFE is the theoretical low-to-high; open-to-close is what most traders realistically capture.

What is the best penny stock screener setup to find these?

Set RVOL to 5x minimum, volume to 10M+, price to $0.50-$20, and sort by RVOL descending in the SNACS scanner. That configuration would have surfaced GELS (950.4x ADV) and BIAF long before their biggest volume days. Overlay the Dilution Alerts column and sector grouping so a rotating sector like Electrical Equipment flags before price confirms.

What does RVOL mean and why does it matter for a penny stock list?

RVOL (relative volume) measures a session's volume against its average — GELS at 950.4x RVOL means it traded roughly 950 times its normal volume. For penny stocks, RVOL is the single most reliable pre-signal because catalyst-driven runs show up as a volume spike before the price fully extends, giving a scanner sorted by RVOL a head start on the move.

Are small-cap earnings a catalyst for these runs?

No — small-cap and penny stock earnings rarely move the stock the way large-caps do. The real catalysts are SEC filings (offerings, S-3 shelves, ATM programs), unusual volume, sector rotation, and market-maker liquidity tests. Last week's featured five ran on volume and rotation, not on earnings; none surfaced an earnings-driven catalyst in available press releases.

How do I know if a penny stock is about to dilute?

Check the scanner's Dilution Alerts column or open the ticker details page for its dilution risk panel showing active shelf, ATM, and warrant facilities. The SEC research dilution snapshot gives facility counts and the lowest exercise price. The standing backdrop is deep — roughly ~6,000 active warrant facilities and ~2,100 ATM programs across the tracked universe — so a cash-negative runner like GELS carries structural overhang even in a week with only one 424B5 filing.

Was last week an active or quiet week for penny stocks?

Mixed — runner-heavy on price but light on pattern count. Twenty-two names ran 50%+ versus a 4-week baseline of ~8.0, but the scanner logged only 60 completed patterns against a 90-day weekly average of 168.8. Fewer setups fired, but every one that triggered reached completion, and the 30-day high-volume breakout and intraday-doubling patterns both held 100% follow-through.