Trading Gaps Ups & Downs?

I recently started following this. From my IB market scanner I pull around 9:15 AM all stocks that are Gap Up and Gapping Down.

Experimented today with:
AA +202
Enter 9:31 out 9:33

APPB +20
9:32 out 9:35

Short
HANS - 20.99
9:35 out 9:58

I don't have a strategy yet as for today it might just be a luck since entire market was up.

If Gap Traders want to share that would be great. I am trying to see how to work with premarket voiletility, volume, etc.

Thanks for sharing.

 

Where are you looking to get your premarket gaps?

 

I use Interactive Brokers scan but I guess any broker might have this info.

 

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Jimc;
Lots of ways to make money with gaps;
you may want to research & record AA sector & stocks, since it sounds like you profited on that.

Dont usually buy gaps myself, they gapped my favorite canned fruit cocktail from .00.69 to 00.79, eat more fresh fruit , planted blueberry bushes, apple trees

However a notable exception remember the strong oil stock uptrends-take overs like BR and so on also. In that case gap up buys made sense, made profit. Also the fun part about that ;annalists pretending they knew more about oil business than execs,

Housing stocks still downtrending , gap down are mostly polar bearish.

 

gbp/usd does intraday gap with followthrough pattern. The key is to watch for days that it does this, the next gap.. probability dictates will be followed by orderflow in the direction of the gap.

 

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41.56 ISLAND (USD) 06:44:16 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
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41.86 ISLAND (USD) 06:38:41 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
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41.72 ISLAND (USD) 06:38:37 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
SOLD 100
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41.42 NSX (USD) 06:38:05 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
BOT 100
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41.47 ISLAND (USD) 06:38:01 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
SOLD 100
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41.66 ARCA (USD) 06:37:52 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
BOT 100
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41.79 ARCA (USD) 06:37:48 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
SOLD 100
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41.81 ARCA (USD) 06:37:12 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
BOT 100
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42.01 ISLAND (USD) 06:36:54 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
SOLD 100
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42.1 ISLAND (USD) 06:35:28 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
BOT 100
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42.3 ISLAND (USD) 06:35:24 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
SOLD 100
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42.45 ISLAND (USD) 06:35:04 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
BOT 100
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42.46 ISLAND (USD) 06:34:52 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
SOLD 100
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42.52 ARCA (USD) 06:34:24 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
BOT 100
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42.28 ISLAND (USD) 06:34:18 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
SOLD 100
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42.26 ARCA (USD) 06:33:46 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
BOT 100
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42.26 ARCA (USD) 06:33:43 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
SOLD 100
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42.28 ARCA (USD) 06:33:33 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
BOT 100
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42.23 ISLAND (USD) 06:33:27 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
SOLD 100
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42.2 ARCA (USD) 06:33:17 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
SOLD 100
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42.5 ISLAND (USD) 06:33:11 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
BOT 100
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42.42 ISLAND (USD) 06:32:50 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
SOLD 100
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41.19 ARCA (USD) 06:31:31 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007
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40.53 ISLAND (USD) 06:30:02 GMT-0800 on Wed, 14 Feb 2007

 

so how did it turn out?

Did you make or lose money

 

I made money and no big execution issues with IB.

I'll trade more tomorrow and post it here.

 

Thanks for the aswer. I am doing a statistical analysis on gaps to determine the best trade direction for gaps up and gaps down, i.e., whether the best trade was up, down, either or neither between 9:30 and 10:30. The data isn't ready yet.

I have plotted about 120 trades so far.

 

did you come up with anything? What software/platform are you using?