Learn Time NWOG & NDOG — New Week / New Day Opening Gaps
NWOG & NDOG — New Week / New Day Opening Gaps
The small gaps between futures close and reopen act as magnets the algorithm keeps returning to.
When futures close at 17:00 NY and reopen at 18:00 (and Friday close to Sunday reopen for the week), the price jump — even a few ticks — leaves a genuine opening gap: NDOG for the day, NWOG for the week.
ICT keeps the five most recent NWOGs on every chart, because price returns to these zones with uncanny frequency, treating them as real fair value gaps with support/resistance behavior and a sensitive midpoint (CE).
The 50% level between two adjacent NWOGs — the "event horizon" — is a gravitation line: price between two weekly gaps tends to travel from one to the other.
How to trade it
- Keep the last five NWOGs and the current week’s NDOGs marked; expect reactions at their edges and midpoints.
- When the week opens far from the nearest NWOG, treat that gap as a plausible draw.
Pitfalls
- Dismissing tiny gaps — a two-tick NWOG is still a reference the algorithm respects.
- Cluttering the chart with every historical gap; five weekly gaps is the working set.
See NWOG & NDOG — New Week / New Day Opening Gaps detected live.
The workstation marks it on the chart the moment it prints.