Day Trading Strategies
Intraday setups built around the open, where each session’s biggest opportunities concentrate — reading premarket gaps, trading gap-and-go momentum, and fading gaps that are likely to fill. Each guide covers the setup, entries and stops, and the specific ways it fails.
- 1Types of Gaps in Trading
The four gap types — common, breakaway, runaway and exhaustion — behave very differently. How to tell them apart, and why it decides the trade.
- 2Finding Premarket Gappers
How to scan premarket movers and turn a raw gapper list into a trade-ready watchlist — gap size, volume, float, catalyst quality and key levels.
- 3Gap-and-Go Strategy
The gap-and-go trades a stock that gaps up on a real catalyst and keeps going. Entry triggers, stop placement, exits and the failure modes.
- 4Gap Fill Trading
A gap fills when price retraces to the prior close. Which gaps tend to fade, how the fade trade is structured, and why fading strong news goes wrong.