OPEN-SOURCE SCRIPT
Updated BornInvestor Gap Detector

📈 BornInvestor Gap Detector
The BornInvestor Gap Detector is a powerful visual tool for identifying and analyzing price gaps on any chart. It automatically detects up and down gaps, highlights them with customizable boxes, and offers detailed labeling and alerting functionality.
🔍 Key Features:
Automatic Detection of bullish and bearish gaps based on customizable deviation settings.
Visual Highlighting of gaps using colored boxes with optional trail length limitation.
Gap Size Labels showing the percentage size of the gap, with the ability to display them only on the most recent N gaps.
Alerts for:
New gap appearance
Gap fully or partially closed
Price entering a gap zone (ideal for breakout/backfill strategies)
Customizable Colors for up/down gap borders and backgrounds.
Optional Message when no gaps are found on the current chart.
💡 Usefulness:
Gaps are an edge. They frequently act as support or resistance—especially on the first retest—when aligned with high-volume areas or other key price zones. Many strong stock moves begin with gaps, a concept central to strategies like Episodic Pivots.
This indicator helps you:
Identify gaps as potential entry zones on secondary setups
Quantify gaps via percentage size
Filter gaps based on size to suit your specific trading approach
Set alerts when price enters a gap or meets your custom criteria
The BornInvestor Gap Detector is a powerful visual tool for identifying and analyzing price gaps on any chart. It automatically detects up and down gaps, highlights them with customizable boxes, and offers detailed labeling and alerting functionality.
🔍 Key Features:
Automatic Detection of bullish and bearish gaps based on customizable deviation settings.
Visual Highlighting of gaps using colored boxes with optional trail length limitation.
Gap Size Labels showing the percentage size of the gap, with the ability to display them only on the most recent N gaps.
Alerts for:
New gap appearance
Gap fully or partially closed
Price entering a gap zone (ideal for breakout/backfill strategies)
Customizable Colors for up/down gap borders and backgrounds.
Optional Message when no gaps are found on the current chart.
💡 Usefulness:
Gaps are an edge. They frequently act as support or resistance—especially on the first retest—when aligned with high-volume areas or other key price zones. Many strong stock moves begin with gaps, a concept central to strategies like Episodic Pivots.
This indicator helps you:
Identify gaps as potential entry zones on secondary setups
Quantify gaps via percentage size
Filter gaps based on size to suit your specific trading approach
Set alerts when price enters a gap or meets your custom criteria
Release Notes
Added - Extend Gaps RightOpen-source script
In true TradingView spirit, the creator of this script has made it open-source, so that traders can review and verify its functionality. Kudos to the author! While you can use it for free, remember that republishing the code is subject to our House Rules.
Investor, Trader, Prolific Tweeter - Taking anything I say as advice wouldn’t be advisable. My opinions are probably someone else’s.
Disclaimer
The information and publications are not meant to be, and do not constitute, financial, investment, trading, or other types of advice or recommendations supplied or endorsed by TradingView. Read more in the Terms of Use.
Open-source script
In true TradingView spirit, the creator of this script has made it open-source, so that traders can review and verify its functionality. Kudos to the author! While you can use it for free, remember that republishing the code is subject to our House Rules.
Investor, Trader, Prolific Tweeter - Taking anything I say as advice wouldn’t be advisable. My opinions are probably someone else’s.
Disclaimer
The information and publications are not meant to be, and do not constitute, financial, investment, trading, or other types of advice or recommendations supplied or endorsed by TradingView. Read more in the Terms of Use.