Stock Screener: Exhaustion Gaps
To find exhaustion gaps, we need to apply two filters:
Gaps
- Price Gapped Up; within the last 1 or 2 days
Filter For Extended Trends
We then need to apply one or more of the following three filters to identify extended trends:
% Price Move
- 1 Month; Minimum 10 (%)
Bollinger Bands
- 20 or 50 Day; Minimum 200
Directional Movement
- ADX Value; Minimum 40 or 50
Example
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Waters Corporation [WAT] shows an exhaustion gap after gaining more than 10% in the last month.


Author: Colin Twiggs is a former investment banker with almost 40 years of experience in financial markets. He co-founded Incredible Charts and writes the popular Trading Diary and Patient Investor newsletters.
Using a top-down approach, Colin identifies key macro trends in the global economy before evaluating selected opportunities using a combination of fundamental and technical analysis.
Focusing on interest rates and financial market liquidity as primary drivers of the economic cycle, he warned of the 2008/2009 and 2020 bear markets well ahead of actual events.
He founded PVT Capital (AFSL No. 546090) in May 2023, which offers investment strategy and advice to wholesale clients.