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Inside the SCA Weekend Gap Indicator

  • 4 days ago
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Crypto never closes, but the weekend still leaves a mark. Price drifts away from where it sat on Friday, and more often than not it comes back to that level before the week is out.. That round trip is the weekend gap, and it is one of the more dependable tendencies in the market. The SCA Weekend Gap Indicator marks it for you and tracks whether it fills.


This post shows what the tool draws, the one number that makes it useful, and how we trade around it with our Setup 3 and Setup 4 framework.


What a weekend gap is


Over the weekend, volume thins out and price drifts. By Monday it usually sits some distance from where Friday closed. That distance — from Friday's close to where the new week opens — is the gap. The Friday close then behaves like a magnet: a level price tends to return to and "fill."


The tool captures Friday's close automatically, shades the weekend move, and marks that close level with a dashed line — the level to watch.



What the tool draws — and what it does not


The indicator does three things, all automatic:

  • it shades the weekend gap (the move away from Friday's close),

  • it draws the dashed fill line at the Friday close — your target, the level to aim for,

  • it keeps a running fill-rate count in the corner.


The shading fades with the size of the gap, so a large gap stands out and a small one stays quiet, and the colors are adjustable in the settings. Everything past that — where you enter, where the stop goes, whether the gap is even worth trading — is your read, not the tool. The tool shows the level; you decide the trade.


The one number that matters: the fill rate


This is what makes the weekend gap worth watching. On ETH, the tool counted 127 weekend gaps, and 92 of them filled — about 72%. Across the coins we have tested, the rate sits in roughly the same range: around three out of four gaps fill within the same week.



That is the edge in one line: when a weekend gap forms, the odds favor price returning to the Friday close. It hands you a high-probability target and bias — somewhere price is likely to head back toward — which is exactly what the dashed line marks.


A word of honesty, because it matters: three out of four is not four out of four. Roughly one gap in four does not fill within the week, and "it fills eventually" does not tell you when, or that the path there is clean. So treat this as a bias and a target, not a guarantee. Use it to lean, not to bet the account.


How we trade it: Setup 3 and Setup 3.1


The gap gives you two situations, and each has a setup:

  • Setup 3 — the fill. Price has gapped away from Friday's close; you trade the move back toward the dashed line.

  • Setup 3.1 — the post-gap break. What happens once the gap fills, or refuses to, and how that points to the next move.


The exact entries, stops, and targets — how we time the fill, where the stop hides, when a gap is a trap rather than an opportunity — are what we teach inside Swallow Crypto Academy. The tool is free and marks the gap on its own; the edge is in how you read it.


How to add it (free)


The SCA Weekend Gap Indicator is free on TradingView:

  1. Open TradingView and search our profile: SwallowAcademy.

  2. Open the {SCA} | Weekend Gap Indicator. (https://www.tradingview.com/script/Uljb539Y-SCA-Weekend-Gap-Indicator/)

  3. Click Add to chart. It works on any coin, and the fill count builds as you load each chart.


A note before you trade


This indicator is a tool for analysis and education. It is not financial advice and it does not predict price. A high fill rate is a tendency, not a promise — roughly one weekend gap in four does not fill, and timing and risk are still on you. Trade your own plan.

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