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Price Gap

Written by Administrator Monday, 31 July 2006 10:00
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The Price Gap scan, searches for a bar that displays a gap in price. That is, a bar that has an open, high, low and close price lower than the previous bars low or higher than the previous bars high.

Properties

 

The above settings would scan for when a bars open, high, low and close is lower than the previous bars low. The Price Gap scan would be applied to a Daily chart.

Type

  • Down
    Select this option to scan for when the open, high, low and close of a bar is lower than low of the previous bar.
  • Up
    Select this option to scan for when the open, high, low and close of a bar is higher than high of the previous bar.

Period Type

This setting sets the period type to use when calculating the Price Gap. For example, by selecting Daily the price gap will be calculated off a day bar period (a daily chart), if it was set to Weekly, it would be calculated off a Weekly bar period (a weekly chart). You can select from the following options.

  • Daily
  • Weekly
  • Monthly
  • Yearly
Last modified on Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:33
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