Fair value gaps: the price nobody traded
Reading a chart · OnlyTrade trading school
When a move is violent, a band of prices gets skipped: the low of one candle never touches the high of the candle two back. That band had almost no trade in it — no agreement, no volume, nothing to defend it. Markets tend to come back and fill such a gap later, which is why it is drawn on the chart as a zone worth watching. It is a magnet, not a rule: plenty of gaps stay open for months, and a gap in the direction of a strong trend is often just the shape of strength.
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