GameStop (GME), Jan 27, 2021
US stock · 60 daily candles up to Jan 26, 2021
Did GME close higher or lower on Jan 27, 2021?
Compared with the previous close. The hidden candle is the dashed box.
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GME closed up 134.87% at 86.88.
The hidden day
Over the prior 20 sessions it gained 633.9%, and RSI(14) sat near 96 (overbought).
- Opening gap
- +139.82%
- Day range
- 88.54%
- Volume vs 50-day avg
- 3.3×
What happened next
- Next session
- -44.29%
- 5 sessions later
- -73.41%
- 20 sessions later
- -68.72%
Measured from the event-day close.
Background
The peak of the 2021 GameStop short squeeze driven by retail traders on Reddit. U.S. options trading volume hit an all-time single-day record that day, driven largely by GameStop and related stocks, and GME posted its highest close of the squeeze.
Source: NYSE — Q1 2021 Options Review
Patterns in this case
What you can see before the call
- Last visible close
- 36.99
- 20-session trend
- +633.9%
- RSI (14)
- 96
- vs 50-day SMA
- +532.8%
- vs 200-day SMA
- +1266.4%
- vs 52-week high
- -7.0%
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