Understanding Gaps: Common, Breakaway, Runaway, and Exhaustion Gap

What Is a Gap? -When a stock ends the day at a certain level and then starts at a new level even though no trades took place. -Gaps are usually from one day to the next. -The reason is that something within the company or industry can change: earnings report, etc. -Weekly charts can also have gaps, but that usually happens over the weekend and it isn't as common. 4 Types of Gaps: 1. Common: Likely caused by low trading volume. It will usually be filled (prices slowly revert to that gap). 2. Breakaway -More meaningful than common gaps -They can happen in the middle of the trading day -They have a downward momentum -Suddenly the stock dips down below the support line. The gap is between the support line and the dip down. This is due to a change in psychology, and people start to sell their shares. -Make sure you see an increase in volume at the gap point. That is confirmation of the downward move. -Another way to be sure that the breakaway gap is a healthy gap is if it happens with another pattern (e.g. a descending triangle pattern). 3. Runaway -Similar to the breakaway gap -Instead of going to the down side it is going to the up side -It is basically a stock price jumping up to a new level (typically due to product releases, news events, etc) -Anything that creates positive sentiment creates a runaway gap -There are three possibilities it can go through: 1. Downard trend and back up, hops and continues to go up 2. Upward incline, gap to incline 3. Downward trend to a slingshot upward -Runaway gaps are more powerful when they come out of an ascending triangle or trend line. 4. Exhaustion -Very good to trade with, if you watch them -They can be dangerous if you are new to the stock market or are not spotting them correctly -They happen when a stock shoots up, jumps and continues to trend up, but will eventually decline -This can happen with a decline as well (declines, jumps down, continues to decline and then shoots up) -You want to be cautious with these gaps because they typically happen in a state of panic Continue to learn with me at: http://tradersfly.com/ Check out my courses at : http://rise2learn.com Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/tradersfly/ Get My Charts on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tradersfly/

Comments

1. Great video!!
2. Hi, can u please make a video on how to trade gaps? Thanks a lot.
3. A Natural Teacher of Concepts
4. what type of gap is QCOM currently experiencing, & where will it general fill (to)?
5. Thanks .. very nice piece of information for intra day strategy
6. I really enjoy the visuals in your videos. Thanks!
7. Good video. You should have given some examples of what point to enter/ exit and so on for these scenarios.
8. so of it gaps down just sell
9. Had I watched this video Thursday night, ugh. Thank you for explaining exhaustion gaps, very helpful!
10. thanks that was useful.
11. Thanks.
12. I think Brakeaway gabs can also be propelled by stop orders/stop losses that are hit, in combination with market orders.
13. Hello Sasha, what are the best indicators for gap trading?
14. I have seen exhaustion Gap occurring on more than one day for downside. People panics next day also and sell their stocks.
15. Wait a common gap is on low volume? Cause it's not very different from a common and runaway when I see this.
16. I love gaps! Nice video..
17. So gaps occur due to extremes in trading volume? So if I understand this correctly, Common- low trading volume (so trend line dissapears because there isnt enough trade volume to create a line.. but once that picks up again and reaches a threshold of some sort, the line reappears at the higher stock price?), Breakthrough, runway and exhaustion- high trading volumes as traders typically fall into the psychology of FOMO(fear of missing out) and try jump on/off board, causing the line to accelerate, reaching another volume threshold that causes the line to dissapear? And Exhaustion gap is just a runaway gap that occurs on the back of a supernova trend? 
    
    Please correct me if I am wrong, I'm just trying to internalise this for my own learning :) Sincerely thank you in advance!
18. question if the stocks (Exhaustion Gap) goes down on really bad news , but the decline is very sudden , would it come back up ?
19. Thanks for the video and the whole tips you enlightened us with.
    Question: does gaps always get filled? for example gaps that happen in 1 year or two year time? (i use daily chart with candlesticks)
20. Hey Sasha,
    If a stock rises in a morning spike then consolidates for the rest of the day, until market close, then gaps up in pre market. Would you still consider that an over extended chart, therefore being an exhaustion gap? Or does the consolidation decrease the chances of a morning panic occurring? Thank you Sasha