Mind the GAP! (Automatic Intraday GAP Overnight) | by Octopu$🤏 Mind the GAP! (Automatic Intraday GAP Overnight) | by Octopu$
Gaps are areas on a chart where the price of a stock moves sharply up or down, with little or no trading in between.
When it happens overnight (not considering Extended Hours), it is just considered as Price Level, for possible revisit.
A Gap is defined when the Open current Candle is Higher or Lower than the Close of the Last Candle:
When the Open of the current Candle is Higher than the Close of the Last Candle it is considered a Gap UP;
When the Open of the current Candle is Lower than the Close of the Last Candle it is considered a Gap DOWN;
Something interesting about Gap is that:
1. The Price Action can travel fast between these levels (Volatility);
2. One (or both) of these levels (Hi/Lo) can act as Support (or Breakout);
3. One (or both) of these levels (Hi/Lo) can act as Resistance (or Breakout).
This Indicator includes these Gaps added Automatically to your Chart.
It is also built-in with a Shadow between the lines for easy visualization.
Colors are also customizable and the Lines are also editable according t your preferences.
Any Time Frame. Any Ticker.
(Using SPY 5m just as an example:)
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AMEX:SPY
Features:
• Identifies Gaps on MC/MO
• Automatically adds Lines to these levels
• Includes shadow for easy visualization
Options:
• Customizable: Colors and Lines
• On/Off Switches for the Levels
• Show/Hide Previous Days
Notes:
v1.0
Indicator release
Changes and updates can come in the future for additional functionalities or per requests.
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Gap
Gap FinderThe Gap Finder Indicator will allow you to quickly identify gaps on the chart. Gaps in this indicator are defined as the "black space" between candles with the space being as small as $0.01. A gap up is one where the previous candle's high is lower than the current candle's low. A gap down is one where the previous candle's low is higher than the current candle's high.
Features:
Highlight Gap Area will show the price levels for the last found gap.
Show Last Only - will show only the last gap to help declutter the chart.
Basic guidelines for Gap trading:
Wait 3-5 Periods to allow the momentum to settle
Take trade on reversal candle with stop above recent high
Exit for profit when the gap fills.
This indicator will work for all timeframes using the definitions above so good for day traders, swing traders and any other style of trader using gaps in their strategy.
GAP HunterThis indicator shows the GAPs that are formed according to whether the opening price is above or below the rate specified in the selection box. An alarm can be set on these conditions.
NSDT Gap FinderThis script plots gaps between candles.
It uses the "round_to_mintick" feature in the Pinescript code, so it works on any instrument out to 3 decimal places.
If there is a Gap Up (open of current candle is greater than the close of previous candle) it will plot a green arrow under the current candle and plot a label above the current candle to show the Gap Amount.
If there is a Gap Down (open of current candle is less than the close of previous candle) it will plot a red arrow over the current candle and plot a label below the current candle to show the Gap Amount.
You can turn the label and/or the arrow on and off.
I created this indicator to more easily identify gaps in the market. The probability of a gap being filled is extremely high. Some are right away (intraday candle to candle), some take a while (gap from previous day close to current day open), and some make take a long time (close at end of previous week to open at beginning of current week).
This is published free to use and open source code.
Please see my other similar Gap Indicators.
Daily Gap Range
USA Session - Previous Day Close Gap to Current Day Open
Range Gap/Open to Close/Close to CloseThis indicator shows the percentage variation of:
gap
close to close (day including gap)
open to close (without gap)
The green bars represent the days when the variation did not reach the selected range. The red bars show the days when the variation was higher than the selected range.
Best timeframe : DAY
Gapgap indicator
True type:
The gap formed between the closing price of the last bar on Friday of the "current" chart period and the opening price of Monday of the "current" chart period
Fix type :
Displays the "daily" gap between Friday's close and Monday's open in "any" chart period
Intution type :
Any gaps are marked
(Not recommended to use in small cycles. There will be a lot of gaps due to the small transaction volume)
Oxy CandlestickOxymoronic (oxy) candlesticks often appear at significant levels in a chart and can indicate increased probabilities of directional moves.
Typically, green candles are hollow and red candles are filled. An oxymoronic candle is colored bullishly but filled bearishly (solid green) or vice versa (hollow red).
Oxy flags occur when:
1) Price gaps up and closes lower than the open but above the last close. A solid green (or black) candle is bearish.
2) Price gaps down and closes higher than the open but below the last close. A hollow red candle is bullish.
An oxy candle indicates one of three things:
1) Price is going up (bullish oxy)
2) Price is going down (bearish oxy)
3) Price will return to this level (either)
#1 and #2 are the default meaning. If those don't play out then look for #3.
As is the case with most indicators, it is best not to use this indicator in isolation, but to combine it with other forms of analysis to increase your probabilities and to identify significant levels.
Gap calculatorVERSION 1
This indicator base on detection of climax candles (Trend or Trading Range candles also available) then calculate average of open and close of those climax one.
Key-features of Gap line :
1 - forecast pullback
2 - finding support and resistance lines
3 - finding behavior of market
Gap FinderThis indicator finds gaps based on User specified input % threshold in the indicator settings. Histogram plot shows gaps as vertical lines for easy detection. Enjoy!
muh gap! [FAIR VALUE GAP FINDER]Change the colors of the indicator to contrast your chart! Make sure to also change the transparency for the colors.
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This indicator finds fair value gaps which are inefficiencies in price delivery. Gaps can be used for entry or even bias.
I've included midpoints, lines, and boxes. Boxes have the greatest range with respect to historic PA so keep that in mind.
I will be updating this script in the future, potentially adding an MTF function, mitigation of gaps and alarms.
Let me know if you guys have any additional ideas.
Best,
P
Indicator: Gap Finder [KL]
About gaps:
A gap is a “jump” in a security’s price between the Open and the Prior Close . Gaps are very common in stocks during opening hours, especially when accompanied by catalysts.
What this indicator does:
This script will identify gaps that remained unfilled for at least one candle.
It is very common for gaps to be filled on the first candle, these gaps are arguably less meaningful, so they are ignored by the indicator to reduce the number of lines drawn.
Applications:
Since most gaps eventually get filled, the question is a matter of when . If going with the trend, a trader will open a long/short position when seeing an up/down gap. When going against the trend, then short/long the stock on up/down gaps and consider taking profits when price returns to where the gap originally occurred.
Originally intended for 1D timeframes, but gaps can occur in all timeframes. Applications are limitless.
Void FinderWith the Indicator one can find the voids in price in candles.
Void as in when the close and open of candles are not at the same price
GSI (Gap Size Indicator)The purpose of this indicator is to give a quick view of a gap size between two candles, and to detect any gap bigger than the trigger setting.
Options
Mode: Select the display mode (% or Value)
Variation Trigger: Defines the minimum gap size to give a signal, for both positive and negative sides. This option depends on the Mode setting
Show trigger lines: Enable/Disable the display of the Variation Trigger setting lines
Color signals only: When enabled, bars crossing the trigger value are still colored, but other are gray
Show signals only: When enabled, will only show bars corresponding to gaps crossing the trigger value
Notes
Basic alerts on Bullish , Bearish and All gaps are available.
Feel free to suggest any improvement.
Bitcoin - CME Futures Friday Close
This indicator displays the weekly Friday closing price according to the CME trading hours (Friday 4pm CT).
A horizontal line is displayed until the CME opens again on Sunday 5pm CT.
This indicator is based on the thesis, that during the weekend the Bitcoin price tends to mean reverse to the CME closing price of the prior Friday. The level can also act as support/resistance. This indicator gives a visualization of this key level for the relevant time window.
Furthermore the indicator helps to easily identify, if there is an up or down gap in the CME Bitcoin contract.
TC Gaps IndicatorTrade Central Gaps indicator makes it super easy to visualise gaps in your charts in any timeframe. You can also configure the width of gaps in percentage (default is 0.5%).
Customizable Gap FinderThis is a fully customizable gap finder. You can change the color of just about anything, on top of hiding filled/old gaps. This is so you can spot those tiny gaps on something such as futures. Be sure to play around with the settings.
Unfilled Gap DetectorThis indicator displays gaps on a chart within a specified range which have not been filled. It offers the ability to set the minimum gap size to detect as a multiple of the average true range (ATR), as well as the allowed distance from a gap fill for the gap to be considered filled. The use of ATR allows the gap threshold to dynamically change as the stock price and volatility change over time. Lastly, it offers the ability to show gaps which have been filled in addition to unfilled gaps.
The following describes each input's effect on the indicator.
Bars to Search Back: specifies how many bars back in the chart to search for gaps and gap fills (maximum 5000).
ATR Length: specifies the length of the ATR() function used for thresholding
Minimum ATR Multiple For Gap Detection: The minimum gap size as a multiple of the ATR
Minimum ATR Multiple For Gap Fill: The minimum distance between a bar high/low and a gap for it to be considered "filled" as a multiple of ATR
Gaps % Size DistributionThis tool is to visualize the distribution of gap % sizes, i.e. those things that I marked on the main chart. The tool uses the entire history of an instrument.
The detalization depends on the Binning Step parameter. The lower chart timeframe the lower that step should be.
Good luck.
Data Gap PointerUpdating the v3 script made by u/Lemrin + some mods
What this does:
Paints a blue "down arrow" pointer at an intraday bar that has occurred with a skip (e.g. a 1min bar that occurs a few minutes after the previous bar)
Checks for whether the market is open, and only paints arrows if inside open hours (because Extended Hours have lots of bar gaps)
Gap detector
This is a very simple gap indicator derived by comparing the previous opening and next closing price.
Gap down if opening price is lesser than previous closed price.
Gap up if opening is more than previous closed price.
This gap detector use to evaluate the continuation or reversal of next candle and needed to be implement with other indicator such as Moving average or Boilinger band to read the possible direction of trend. Basic knowledge of candlestick pattern may help to predict the direction of next candlestick base on gap up or down of current price.
Alert can be setup using this gap detector accordingly to the time frame of chart.
Multiple time frame is recommended
BITCOIN CME FUTURES GAPSDisplays information about Bitcoin CME Futures Gaps over BTCUSD (or XBTUSD) charts.
You can configure a threshold percentage to only display gaps whose size is greater than that percentage. The gap precentage is calculated based on the current close price.
Gaps up are displayed in Orange, gaps down in Green
Daily GAP StatsI did not write the script from scratch but rather started editing code of an existing one. The original code came from a script called GAP DETECTOR by @Asch-
First up: I am a trader, not a programmer and therefore my code most likely is inefficient. If someone with more expertise would like to help and optimize it - feel free to get in touch, I am always happy to learn some new tricks. :)
This script does 2 things:
- It shows daily gaps stats based on user inputs
- It shows color coded labels on gap days with additional information in tooltips ( important: make sure to read 'known issues/limitations' at the end )
User Inputs
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Although the input dialog is pretty straight forward, I do a quick rundown:
- Length: max lookback time
- Gap Direction: self explanatory
- Show All Gaps | Cont Only | Reversal Only | Off:
This refers to the way labels are displayed on gap days (again: make sure to read known issues/limitations!)
- Show All Gaps: does what it says
- Cont Only: only shows gaps where price continued in the gap direction. If you filter for gap ups and chose 'Cont only' you will only see labels on gap days where price closed above the open (and vice versa if you scan for gap downs).
- Reversal Only: you will only see labels for closes below the open on gap up days (and the opposite on gap down days)
- Off: self explanatory
- Gap Measure in ATR/PCT: self explanatory, ATR is calculated over a 10d period
- Gap Size (Abs Values): no negative values allowed here. If you filter for gap downs and enter 3 it means it will show gaps where the stock fell more than 3 ATR/PCT on the open.
- RVOL Factor: along with significant gaps should come significant volume. RVOL = volume of the gap day / 20d average volume
- Viewing Options: Placing the stats label in the window is a bit tricky (see knonw issues/limitations) and I was not sure which way I liked better. See for yourself what works best for you.
Known Isusses/Limitations:
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- Positioning of the stats table:
As to my knowledge, Tradingview only allows label positioning relative to price and not relative to the chart window. I tried to always display the gap stats table in the upper right corner, using 52wk high as y-coordinate. This works ok most of the time, but is not pretty. If anybody has some fancy way to tag the label in a fixed position, please get in touch.
- Max number of labels per script:
TradingView has a limitation that allows a maxium of ~50 labels per script. If there are more labels, TradingView will automatically cut the oldest ones, without any notification. I have found this behaviour to be rather inconsistent - sometimes it'll dump labels even if there are a lot fewer than 50. Hopefully TradingView will drop this limitation at one point in the future.
Important: The inconsistent display of the gap day labels has NO INFLUENCE on the calculations in the gap stats table - the count and the calculations are complete and correct!
GAP based S/RThis Script is designed to show repeating pattern in the market, encountered by gaps.
Depending on the Gap, the Lines will be drawn in the selected color.
The Gap is checked from the lowest point of the old candle-body to the highest point of the new candle body for a bearish Gap and vice versa for bullish Gap.
The Script allows to:
- enable bearish gaps, bullish gaps or both
- adjust the minimum pips for the marketjump to be considered a gap
- adjust color of the bullish/bearish gap
- define how much bars should be considered in the history, where 4999 is the max value.
With this functionality and the showing patterns, it is possible to determine support and resistance zones.
When the script is used in markets/periods with many gaps and a high number of historic candles is watched, you might not see any horizontal lines at all -> please reduce the number of historical bars in order to draw an appropriate number of lines.
