Opening Gap Statistics API
The overnight-gap behaviour day-traders actually trade, computed live from Yahoo Finance daily OHLC — no key, nothing stored. A gap is the jump between yesterday's close and today's open — the move that happens while the market is shut, on overnight news and futures drift. Traders live and die on two questions: how often does a name gap, and does the gap fill (price retraces to yesterday's close) or run (it keeps going). This API answers both with hard frequencies. For each instrument it returns how often it gaps up and down beyond a configurable threshold, the average size of up- and down-gaps, the gap-fill rate (the share of gaps where price traded back through the prior close intraday — for an up-gap, the day's low reaching the prior close), and the continuation rate (how often the day closes in the direction of the gap rather than fading it), plus the largest recent gaps. The asset endpoint returns one instrument's full gap profile with its biggest recent gaps; the screener endpoint ranks a universe of liquid stocks and ETFs by gappiness or gap-fill rate, surfacing the names that gap most and the ones whose gaps reliably fill. This is the opening-gap / overnight-jump microstructure cut — distinct from the price, candlestick-pattern, volatility and risk APIs in the catalogue. It is what happens between the close and the open.
api.oanor.com/gapstats-api
