Learn about the runaway gap that occurs in financial charts when trading activity leaps over sequential prices due to strong investor demand, affecting market evaluation.

Gaps are not just empty space on a chart. They are moments when supply and demand fall out of balance, forcing price to rapidly reprice. In Senior Market Strategist John Rowland, CMT’s recent webinar ...

WTI futures fill the gap left on the daily chart early this month. (BigCharts.com) Oil futures "filled the gap," as technical analysts like to say, with Wednesday's drop. A gap is the clear area left ...

Apple's stock chart shows that there's greater risk of a bearish technical breakdown after earnings than a bullish breakout. Downside levels to watch include last week's lowest intraday price of ...