What Are Gaps and Will This One Fill?
🕯 Gaps form when the market skips over a price range without trading through it. On CME BTC Futures, this often happens after weekends when markets reopen.
The gap on the chart above, from around $114.4k to $115.6k, appeared after a higher Friday open. This creates an unfilled zone, a pocket of missing liquidity.
🤔 Why do traders even care about gaps? It is not some hidden force. Gaps often reflect emotional moves, news shocks, or thin liquidity. Markets tend to revisit these zones because they represent unfinished business. Many traders expect price to return and test that level. It becomes a target.
🧐 Do gaps always fill? No. But in BTC, especially on CME where the chart lags 24/7 spot markets, many do over time. Smaller gaps have higher fill rates. In this case, the green region is likely to be retested soon.
It is less about technical rules and more about shared psychology. Markets are not rational machines. They are crowds reacting to perceived imbalance ❗️
