I’m listing my 11 easiest gap trading strategies for you to try out. Gap trading suits every trading style, from day trading to options trading. If you don’t know what gaps are yet, first get my complimentary guide, The Gap Method. Read it all the way through before you read the gap trading strategies below. 1. Day Trading to monitor during the trading day. One important note, we measure the close, for our 1/2 Gap measurement, from the 4PM futures close. Here is a picture of a weeks worth of price action on a 60 Min chart showing both the 4PM and 4:15PM EST ES futures close, the 9:30AM EST Open, and the 1/2 Gap as measured from the 4PM EST close. (We do our analysis when the market is not open and moving so we can be very objective and plan our trades in advance to take care of the emotional issues related to trading for new traders.) That morning, there was a gap up in the market after a rally in price, in the context of a downtrend, and into an area of supply (resistance).