GBPUSD bearish gap, 7 October 2026
A 1.8-pip bearish fair value gap that formed at 2026-10-07 09:30 UTC. Price had not traded back into the gap by the last candle of its session (2026-10-07 18:00 UTC).
Archive snapshot as of 2026-10-07 18:00 UTC. Built from candles read for this site, not from a running market. How gaps are defined
From formation to the end of its session
The first three candles are the ones that make the gap: its upper and lower edges are the wicks of candle 1 and candle 3. The box runs until price trades through the far edge, or to the last candle of the session.
The gap's fields
| Gap id | GBPUSD-15m-1791362700 |
|---|---|
| Market | GBPUSD |
| Timeframe | 15m |
| Direction | Bearish |
| Upper edge | 1.32393 |
| Lower edge | 1.32375 |
| Size | 1.8 pips (pip = 0.0001) |
| First candle opened | 2026-10-07 08:45 UTC |
| Formed (candle 3 closed) | 2026-10-07 09:30 UTC |
| Session | London (the session in which candle 3 closed) |
| Displacement | 0.44 (body of candle 2 over the average range of the last 14 candles; shown, not scored) |
| State | Not revisited, as of 2026-10-07 18:00 UTC |
| First touched | Not in this session |
| Filled | Not in this session |
| Left to fill | 1.8 pips (100% of the gap) |
| Age at session end | 8 h 30 min |
| Candles seen after it formed | 34 |
Definitions are on the methodology page.
How far price went after
In the 8 candles after the gap formed, measured from the close of candle 3, price reached 0.4 pips above that close and 25.8 pips below it. These are distances, not a forecast.
Similar gaps
Other GBPUSD 15m gaps in the third quarter by size (quartiles of this market's own gap sizes) in this archive: 3, formed from 30 September 2026 to 23 October 2026.
- 3 of 3 were touched by the end of their session, 2 of 3 filled.
- Median time from forming to first touch: 15 min, over the 3 that were touched.
- Within 4 candles of forming (only gaps watched for 4 candles): 2 of 2 touched, 0 of 2 filled.
Sample size 3. A session ends at 18:00 UTC, so a gap formed late has had few candles to be revisited: these counts describe the archive, and do not say what any gap will do next.
Other gaps in the same session
Cite this gap
FairValueGaps.com archive scanner. GBPUSD 15m bearish fair value gap, 1.8 pips, formed 2026-10-07 09:30 UTC. Archive snapshot as of 2026-10-07 18:00 UTC. https://fairvaluegaps.com/gaps/gbpusd-15m-1791362700/
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