Runaway Gaps
Runaway gaps are also called measuring gaps, and are best described as gaps that are caused by increased interest in the stock.
Runaway Gap
A type of gap on a price chart that occurs during strong bull or bear movements characterized by an abrupt change in price and appearing over a range of prices.
Runaway gap - A gap in prices after a trend has begun that signals the halfway point of a market move.
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Runaway Gap
The runaway gap is also know as the "measuring gap" because this type of gap occurs about halfway during the major trend after the breakaway gap.
A runaway gap is a price gap that usually occurs around the mid-point of an important market trend. For that reason, it is also called a measuring gap.
A runaway gap has all of the features of a breakaway gap, except that a runaway gap simply augments a trend rather than starting a new trend and is usually the result of news that supports the trend.
As presented by John Murphy in his 1999 book 'Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets', gaps appear in three forms, the Breakaway Gap, the Runaway Gap (or Measuring Gap) and the uncommonly witnessed Exhaustion Gap.
A runaway gap occurs after the trend has begun. In the December Hog chart, prices again leaped up suddenly. The runaway gap is called the measuring gap because it often marks the halfway point of the market move.
Continuation Gaps - Sometimes called runaway gaps or measuring gaps, these occur during a strong advance in price.
analysis, a gap in a chart pattern of price movement indicating a stock price has broken out of a trend on high volume. A breakaway gap is bullish if the price movement is upward and bearish if the price movement is downward. Compare runaway gap.
usually considered bullish and signals a renewal of the uptrend. After a short or intermediate decline, a continuation down gap is usually considered bearish and signals a renewal of the downtrend. This gap is also called a measuring or runaway gap.
This gap is also called a measuring or runaway gap.
Gap - Exhaustion: After an extended or long move, a gap in the direction of the current move is called an exhaustion gap.
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