Quote from vertigo3:
FWIW,
Pekelo has that gap observation. He has sort of made ammendments and other observations, but the original rule was:
if you have a gap that does not close and then on the very next trade day you open again with another gap in the same direction, when that happens, he expects that second gap to fill sometime during that second trading day.
I ran an historical study and found that (I can't remember the exact number) but it was like 71 or 72% of the time, call it 7 in 10, that the second gap would fill. Study was based on ES for the past 10 years, I did include some sort of filter that the gap had to be more than 3 ticks. the report is somewhere on ET, I published it in his journal.
Today was/is second consecutive gap day in same direction. yesterday's 4:15pm close was 1291.75, yesterday's 4:00pm close was 1290.75 (study was based on 4:15pm closes, but LC does have a valid point about also looking at the 4:00pm close.
ammo has noted before that on days when the oil prices are up, just the close of the pit trading can coincide with some relief (higher) in ES (maybe because traders feel a sense of relief that there can't be anymore bad news from the oil pits because they're closed.
pit trading in oil ends at 2:30pm (I believe).