how often do stocks gap 
the amount of times stocks gap really depends on the time frame that a trader is viewing and making trades the shorter the time frame the more frequent the gaps so a daily chart would have more gaps than a monthly chart the bottom lineprice movements of an asset indicate to traders when it might be a time to buy sell or ignore what is happening in the market gaps such as stock gaps are large jumps in a security s price during non trading hours due to external factors such as news when evaluating the gap traders and investors need to determine the cause before taking any action 