What is Three Gaps Up?
Three Gaps Up is a candlestick-chart term used to describe a particular relationship between one or more open-high-low-close bars. Its value is in naming a visible price structure consistently so it can be compared with trend, range and surrounding context.
Three Gaps Up matters because it gives analysts a consistent way to discuss reading sequences of price behavior. Multi-period patterns add context that a single bar cannot provide, but they still require confirmation from the broader market environment.
How to read Three Gaps Up
Read Three Gaps Up relative to the preceding trend, nearby support or resistance, the size of surrounding candles and any gap or volume information. The same formation can mean very little when it appears in random sideways noise.
What Three Gaps Up does not tell you
The term should be read as descriptive chart language rather than as a self-contained forecast. Pattern frequency and apparent success can change with instrument, timeframe, volatility regime and the way gaps or sessions are handled.
Use in bonds, rates and macro markets
Rates traders may encounter these patterns in Treasury futures, Bund futures, JGB futures and related exchange-traded instruments.
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