Quantitative modeling demonstrates a gap-fading entry strategy in financial markets, suggesting market overextension reverts to prior-day midpoints through mean reversion.
{ "name": "prior_day_midpoint_gap_reversion", "source": "Trading literature: 'Gaps and gap fills' by Larry Pesavento / classic gap-fade studies", "type": "entry_engine", "rule": "If today's open gaps above/below prior day's midpoint by at least 0.5 ATR (of prior day), enter fade at open with stop at prior day's high/low (outside the gap side) and take profit at prior day's midpoint; if no gap, no trade.", "pseudocode": "if abs(open_today - mid_prior) >= 0.5*ATR_prior: if open_today > mid_prior: short @ open_today, stop = high_prior, target = mid_prior else: long @ open_today, stop = low_prior, target = mid_prior: no trade", "why_it_works": "Gaps beyond half the prior day's range tend to overextend and revert to the prior day's value area (midpoint) due to mean reversion and liquidity provision." } Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com
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