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Gap down on Amazon

On Amazon the gap down showed up 170 times. The target came first 39% of the time, the stop 58%, and 4% went nowhere within 12 candles.

Counted on Amazon: daily candles from January 2015 and hourly candles from September 2024.

By timeframe

TimeframeFoundTarget firstStop firstWent nowhere
Daily7639%57%4%
Hourly9438%59%3%

Amazon against the rest

ChartsFoundTarget firstStop firstWent nowhere
Amazon17039%58%4%
All US stock market charts4,69536%61%3%
Every market10,85636%61%4%

Year by year

YearFoundTarget firstStop first
2016450%50%
2017333%67%
2018560%40%
2019633%50%
20201030%70%
2021838%50%
20221354%46%
2023450%50%
2024138%85%
20255636%62%
20264846%50%

The last 8 times

Counted by the Trading Class research engine on real past candles: entry at the signal candle's close, target 1.5 × ATR(14), stop 1 × ATR(14), 12 candles to decide, a candle that touches both counts as the stop. How we count. Past data, not a forecast and not advice.

What the gap down is

Price opened below the previous candle's low. It jumped down between the two candles.

Imagine a shop that shuts at night. While it is closed, bad news spreads about a toy, so when the shop opens, the very first price is already below anything paid the day before. On a chart, a candle that starts below the bottom of the candle before it is called a gap down.

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Other patterns on Amazon

Inside bar · Stochastic bearish cross · Stochastic bullish cross · Spinning top · Doji · Gap up · MACD bearish cross · EMA 9/21 bullish cross · MACD bullish cross · EMA 9/21 bearish cross · all of them

The gap down elsewhere

Dow Jones · S&P 500 · Nasdaq 100 · Alibaba · Tesla · Broadcom · Oracle · Nvidia · Microsoft · Meta · Sensex · Nifty 50 · Nikkei 225 · Sony

Questions

How often does the gap down work on Amazon?

In 170 cases on Amazon, the target (1.5 × ATR) came before the stop (1 × ATR) 39% of the time and the stop came first 58%; 4% went nowhere within 12 candles.

What is the gap down?

Price opened below the previous candle's low. It jumped down between the two candles.