Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
In case of gap openings, wait at least half an hour to see if the gap fills or not and then trade.
Tip - Gaps are early market hours phenomemon generally. Favourite trick of market makers, gap up a weak share to trap buyers and gun shorts stops. gap down a strong market to gun longs stops. If a market had a strong performance the previous day, the market makers will gap it up on low volumes so that you have to pay more to buy. They will be selling to buyers till the price is driven down by their selling and until stoplosses are gunned, and then they will buy back from the same buyers thereby profiting from the spread. Same philosophy in reverse for a market which had a weak performance the previous day. All in a days work of profiting from spreads.
Gaps in the middle of an uptrend could be continuation or exhaustion gaps, therefore the wait. Same for downtrend.
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