Stock Gaps – Trading Stock Gaps Stock gaps occur as a result of excessive buy or sell orders which forces prices either up or down.
The closing price today will not necessarily be the opening price tomorrow in a stock. This is due to the fact that demand or supply may shift an order bias, causing the stock to gap higher or lower the following session. If there are many more buyers than sellers, a stock will gap up. If there are many more sellers than buyers, a stock will gap down.
Common Gap – Common Gap Stock The common gap is the most frequent type of stock gap. Common gaps occur within the normal course of trading and are insignificant developments in terms of price action. Common gaps are minor in size, occur often, and are not accompanied by high volume. Common gaps tend to fill soon after they are formed.
Gold SUGO Related Charts > Both "Forecasted, and actual".
The 5-year chart for gold is most interesting as it reveals that its bullmarket advance from the 2008 low is defined by an inner normal channel, and an outer extreme one. As we can see, the recent recovery from the December lows has defined the lower boundary of the outer channel for the 1st time, and it is interesting to observe how the already defined upper channel boundary could have been used to predict the exact low in gold at its recent bottom. Not only has this parallel outer boundary held, but with last week's breakout, the price has regained a foothold back within the inner channel this past week, and now, having broken out from its downchannel in force from September, it is in position to advance towards the upper channels boundaries again. The target zone given assumes that it will make a run at the outer channel boudary again - but it may instead be content to advance within the confines of the inner channel, which will still result in new highs and very worthwhile gains from here.