Beginner · Candlestick & chart patterns
Common Gap
What it means
Price opened clear of the previous session's range inside a market that was going nowhere, and a small gap with no trend behind it usually says little and may simply fill.
At a glance
- Directional bias
- Range noise
- Sessions to form
- 2 consecutive sessions
- Curriculum tier
- Beginner
- Pattern family
- common gap
Practise this pattern in the Simulator
Reading a definition is not the same as spotting one. Run Common Gap on real historical NSE daily bars in the Pattern Arena — the chart pauses and explains the formation each time it completes. Virtual capital only.
Practise Common Gap in the SimulatorRelated patterns
Doji
indecisionPrice travelled through the session and closed right back where it opened, so neither buyers nor sellers won and the current trend has lost its conviction.
Hammer
bullishSellers forced price sharply lower and buyers bought all of it back before the close, rejecting the lower prices and hinting at a potential floor.
Bullish Engulfing
bullishBuyers have overwhelmed sellers, erasing the whole of the previous down session in one move and indicating a potential reversal upward.
Bearish Engulfing
bearishSellers have overwhelmed buyers, erasing the whole of the previous up session in one move and indicating a potential reversal downward.
Morning Star
bullishA strong down session is followed by a small-bodied pause and then a strong up session, showing selling pressure fading and buyers taking over at a potential bottom.
Evening Star
bearishA strong up session is followed by a small-bodied pause and then a strong down session, showing buying pressure fading and sellers taking over at a potential top.
Educational reference only. This describes what traders conventionally read into the Common Gap formation. It is not a trading signal, a prediction or investment advice, and no pattern is reliable on its own. Finance Onyx is a simulated educational platform: all practice uses virtual capital and no order is ever routed to a broker or an exchange.