Gap Up tomorrow morning

Discussion in 'Trading' started by nwbprop, Feb 19, 2004.

  1. I have us approaching the right side of my Intermediate Trend channel. We are also forming a FTP on this IT trend. The last 2 times we hit the right side of the channel, we gapped up overnight. My question is do you think we will gap up tomorrow morning into new highs? I am debating on whether to go out long overnight. I probably will not as i am not sure.


    jc
     
  2. ok I'll go long now
     
  3. Of course, if we break the right side of my IT channel with volume, we will get a nice move down.
     
  4. gms

    gms

    My head hurts and my eyes are crossed. What was that about?
     
  5. Scratch the Gap comment. We broke my right trend channel and had a nice move down.

    Glad we got some movement.
     
  6. dbphoenix

    dbphoenix

    Resistance :)
     
  7. Actually - pretty decent odds of a gap up, precisely because we broke the channel to the downside.
     
  8. agree. i bought a few things at lod close just for that play. probably try to sell into premarket tomorrow.
    almost all of the lod closes recently have had some kind of a gap the next day. we will see. in trading you make your bets and play your cards. whats the old kenny rogers song:

    Know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away, and know when to run.”
    - Kenny Rogers
     
  9. I have posted in a couple of places the last few days on threads dealing with gaps and making money. (I don't know how to cite the places, search my name)

    If you are doing continuous trading, then you may wish to make money every evening as well.

    Use the IT trend to determine direction of hold overnight.

    Attached is the print (beginner using scaling and reversals while being mentored) that covers this thread's afternoon discussion. I annotated it for clarity if you are not used to staying in the market and doing trading all the time.

    Add three hours to get time correction for eastern time.

    What you see from bottom up is a reverse into a short S to B for two ticks on one contract. This sets up a long on a reverse B to S on one contract; it turns out to be a wash. Next is a 1 contract short for 1 point.

    Now the reverse of 1 contract continues and another contract long scales in. As a reverse, these two contracts are covered for a total of three ticks with a reversal to carry 2 contracts forward in a short trade.

    The power of staying in the market on the right side of the market shows up here. The B 2 @48.1 yields 3.3 x 2 in points for 7.2 points. The spike was not handled well either as an exit nor as a reversal. This is a consequence of emotions coming into the picture (popping in as a surprise) as a consequence of the past leanred behavior.

    22 minutes pass as the trader gets himselve debriefed and back to 1 contract (SeePTJ). The S toB short is annotated as the last trade (red) of the day (15:57). It makes 3 ticks.

    After NYSE close, the overnite is taken by acting according to the IT trend. This is the top line annotated in black. Since the day has been one where the prior over night gaps (see my posts) all follow the IT, you get to make around the H/L of any intraday range when anything is available.

    there are ET comments about how gaps are 50/50 up and down. That is true because they follow the IT trends in groups of up gaps and groups of down gaps. If an IT trend ends overnight, you have to consider that as a possibility.

    Obviously overnight trading is more risky; just check the margin requirements as a rough measure.

    I am not posting on this to get into a long discussion. If you wish you can collect about four or five former posts over the last week or so to see the picture sufficiently to make a major increase in your rate of capital appreciation using this.

    To clarify R (Resistance) considerations here and how a long IT trend relates, here is what to conclude. You will not get a gap if the overnight is testing the top of R as it will when the close is on the top of R. That is not complicated. When I say you will not get a gap that means not up or not down, neither, nada. If the other condition prevails, i. e., the close is NOT on the top of the R, then you will see a gap; It will be approximately equal to the the prior H/L range distance away from the top of the R in potential.

    Occasionally there is earth shaking news etc. So what. We all know what to do whith news. There is a recovery from news that is just like Ari Kiev says about emotions. He says time it. LOL.
     
  10. Grob, very interesting.

    ET could certainly use a lot more posts where people "share" their trading methodology.

    Well done!
     
    #10     Feb 19, 2004