Reading the First-Hour Range Without Rushing the Break
How we define the opening range on Hong Kong cash opens, and why early expansion often fails when a gap is still unfilled.
Field notes
Writing from the chart wall
Short essays on first-hour ranges, overnight gaps, failed breaks, and the quiet checklists we use before the cash open.
Gap Types That Matter Before the Open
A practical taxonomy for overnight gaps: full gap, partial gap, and gap-into-range — and how each changes the morning plan.
Failed Range Breaks on Hong Kong Opens
Why a clean break of the opening range can reverse within minutes, and how we train recognition without turning every failure into a revenge trade.
Building a Quiet Premarket Checklist
A short premarket sequence for gap size, prior range, and planned opening-range length — designed for a desk, not a dashboard.