OK so the gap is coincidental, it's just that it's not the first time you have mentioned gaps.
What is important here is the change in trend after selling was exhausted, paying attention to the volume and price would have got me into the trend early.
Why did you choose a stock which had gapped? I know I took a trade in this stock but it seems you noticed the gap and decided it would be a good example for what you are showing me. Are gaps a requirement for these trades?
But this begs the questions, what frequency MA? I could cover my chart in so many different MA's that I can't see the background anymore, if I was avoiding MA's I wouldn't be able to enter a trade anywhere. Probably goes to show how meaningless they are.
Then again not all MA's are created...
When I described my approach in a previous post without mentioning the MA's you seemed think it was sound in theory. I can and have traded it with and without the MA's, without the MA's is pretty much the method Marc Rivalland describes in his book, but I thought they can't hurt so I leave them...