Pre-Market ORB Watchlist: Stocks to Watch at the Open

Monday, August 31, 2026, pre-market. The names our scanner is watching for an opening range breakout at today’s open, and the reason each one made the list. The level is the opening range itself, set in the first minutes after the bell.

Today’s ORB watchlist

  • $EWY (watching a long break): 15-min ORB long: 70% win rate over 174 trades · in a squeeze on 8 timeframes. EWY ORB statistics
  • $IWM (watching a long break): 15-min ORB long: 69% win rate over 99 trades · in a squeeze on 4 timeframes. IWM ORB statistics
  • $QQQ (watching a long break): 15-min ORB long: 69% win rate over 228 trades · in a squeeze on 4 timeframes. QQQ ORB statistics
  • $EEM (watching a long break): 15-min ORB long: 69% win rate over 186 trades · in a squeeze on 7 timeframes. EEM ORB statistics
  • $AAXJ (watching a long break): 15-min ORB long: 67% win rate over 107 trades · in a squeeze on 6 timeframes. AAXJ ORB statistics

How this list is built

Every name is picked by the same overnight scan: multi-timeframe squeeze compression, cross-system confluence, and each symbol’s own backtested opening range breakout record. The win rates quoted above are real backtests on that symbol, not market averages. You can check any symbol’s full record on its opening range breakout statistics page or run your own numbers in the ORB backtester.

These are watches with a trigger level, not signals. A name on this list does nothing until price actually breaks its opening range, and a backtested win rate is a historical record, not a prediction for today’s trade. This page updates every trading morning before the open.