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Gold weekend gap after Friday 17 Jun 2016: -0.96%
Gold's last hourly close on Friday 17 Jun 2016 was US$1,298.55. After 50 hours with no bars it reopened at US$1,286.09, 0.9595% lower. That makes it the 8th largest of the 499 weekend gaps from 2015 to 2024 in this data, and it was filled after 100 hours.
The gap in numbers
| Friday's last hourly bar | Fri 17 Jun 2016 23:00 |
| Friday's last hourly close | US$1,298.55 |
| First hourly bar after the weekend | Mon 20 Jun 2016 01:00 |
| Reopen price (first hourly open) | US$1,286.09 |
| Gap | -0.9595% · -US$12.46 |
| Hours with no bars | 50 |
| Rank among 499 weekend gaps 2015–2024 (by size) | 8th |
| Rank among the 49 gaps of 2016 | 1st |
| Gold in the week before (Friday close vs Friday a week earlier) | +1.92% |
Did the gap fill?
Yes. Price first traded back to Friday's close of US$1,298.55 in the hourly bar of Fri 24 Jun 2016 05:00, 100 hours after the reopen. Up to that bar, the furthest point away from Friday's close was US$1,250.34 (-3.71%).
The first trading day after the gap
Daily bar for 20 Jun 2016: open US$1,286.09, high US$1,292.20, low US$1,277.93, close US$1,289.75. Close to close against Friday's daily close of US$1,298.55 that is -0.68%, with US$14.27 between high and low.
Hourly bars around the gap
| Bar (data time) | Open | High | Low | Close |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 17 Jun 2016 18:00 (before) | US$1,288.72 | US$1,289.35 | US$1,284.86 | US$1,288.40 |
| Fri 17 Jun 2016 19:00 (before) | US$1,288.32 | US$1,290.71 | US$1,286.51 | US$1,290.26 |
| Fri 17 Jun 2016 20:00 (before) | US$1,290.29 | US$1,295.47 | US$1,289.91 | US$1,293.21 |
| Fri 17 Jun 2016 21:00 (before) | US$1,293.24 | US$1,294.70 | US$1,292.77 | US$1,293.18 |
| Fri 17 Jun 2016 22:00 (before) | US$1,293.28 | US$1,299.38 | US$1,293.28 | US$1,298.08 |
| Fri 17 Jun 2016 23:00 (before) | US$1,298.18 | US$1,299.50 | US$1,297.54 | US$1,298.55 |
| Mon 20 Jun 2016 01:00 | US$1,286.09 | US$1,291.62 | US$1,280.90 | US$1,289.88 |
| Mon 20 Jun 2016 02:00 | US$1,289.88 | US$1,292.20 | US$1,288.42 | US$1,289.23 |
| Mon 20 Jun 2016 03:00 | US$1,289.18 | US$1,291.06 | US$1,284.69 | US$1,285.38 |
| Mon 20 Jun 2016 04:00 | US$1,285.42 | US$1,287.30 | US$1,284.47 | US$1,284.82 |
| Mon 20 Jun 2016 05:00 | US$1,284.83 | US$1,286.33 | US$1,281.75 | US$1,282.14 |
| Mon 20 Jun 2016 06:00 | US$1,282.18 | US$1,284.87 | US$1,281.00 | US$1,283.65 |
| Mon 20 Jun 2016 07:00 | US$1,283.62 | US$1,283.63 | US$1,280.27 | US$1,281.54 |
| Mon 20 Jun 2016 08:00 | US$1,281.56 | US$1,284.19 | US$1,280.77 | US$1,283.31 |
| Mon 20 Jun 2016 09:00 | US$1,283.28 | US$1,284.72 | US$1,282.79 | US$1,284.17 |
| Mon 20 Jun 2016 10:00 | US$1,284.20 | US$1,288.72 | US$1,283.40 | US$1,287.24 |
| Mon 20 Jun 2016 11:00 | US$1,287.22 | US$1,288.66 | US$1,286.35 | US$1,287.79 |
| Mon 20 Jun 2016 12:00 | US$1,287.82 | US$1,287.82 | US$1,280.69 | US$1,283.30 |
Context
2016 had 49 weekend gaps in this data; this was the largest. More numbers for that time: gold in June 2016 and gold in 2016.
What a gap like this means for an open trade
No price traded between US$1,286.09 and US$1,298.55, so a stop or pending order set inside that band was filled at the reopen price instead. The jump was US$12.46 per ounce; at 100 ounces, a common size for one gold lot, that is US$1,246.00, before any further move. A grid or martingale EA that holds trades over the weekend takes the full gap at once. You can enter US$12.46 in the grid calculator to see what it does to your own lot and spacing.
Questions
How big was gold's weekend gap after 17 Jun 2016?
-0.9595% (-US$12.46): Friday's last hourly close was US$1,298.55 and the first hourly open after the weekend was US$1,286.09.
Did the gap after 17 Jun 2016 fill?
Yes, 100 hours after the reopen.
How rare was this gap?
It was the 8th largest of 499 weekend gaps from 2015 to 2024 and the largest of 49 in 2016.