Everyone braces for the big overnight gap, and this Cboe backed study says it barely happens. Across roughly 2,400 SPY sessions, nine in ten overnight moves landed inside a one percent band, and the direction of the gap said almost nothing about how the day closed.
What it did predict was whether it would fill, and small gaps filled far more often than large ones. Elevated volatility changed that by widening the intraday range. A fill signal, not a forecast. Study results are historical, not predictive.
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Chapters
00:00 What the study looks at
00:32 How the study was built
01:28 The distribution of overnight moves
02:33 How rare the big gaps are
03:47 Does the gap predict direction
05:06 Why day by day is hard
06:17 Longer horizons behave differen...