GBPUSD bearish gap, 23 October 2026
A 2-pip bearish fair value gap that formed at 2026-10-23 17:30 UTC. Price traded through the far edge at 2026-10-23 18:00 UTC.
Archive snapshot as of 2026-10-23 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-1792773900 |
|---|---|
| Market | GBPUSD |
| Timeframe | 15m |
| Direction | Bearish |
| Upper edge | 1.33673 |
| Lower edge | 1.33653 |
| Size | 2 pips (pip = 0.0001) |
| First candle opened | 2026-10-23 16:45 UTC |
| Formed (candle 3 closed) | 2026-10-23 17:30 UTC |
| Session | New York (the session in which candle 3 closed) |
| Displacement | 0.91 (body of candle 2 over the average range of the last 14 candles; shown, not scored) |
| State | Filled, as of 2026-10-23 18:00 UTC |
| First touched | 2026-10-23 17:45 UTC (candle 1 after the gap formed) |
| Filled | 2026-10-23 18:00 UTC (candle 2 after the gap formed) |
| Left to fill | 0 pips (0% of the gap) |
| Age at session end | 30 min |
| Candles seen after it formed | 2 |
Definitions are on the methodology page.
How far price went after
In the 2 candles after the gap formed, measured from the close of candle 3, price reached 5.3 pips above that close and 2.7 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 7 October 2026.
- 2 of 3 were touched by the end of their session, 1 of 3 filled.
- Median time from forming to first touch: 38 min, over the 2 that were touched.
- Within 4 candles of forming (only gaps watched for 4 candles): 2 of 3 touched, 0 of 3 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
- Bearish gap of 1.5 pips, formed 2026-10-23 16:30 UTC (Filled)
- Bullish gap of 1.2 pips, formed 2026-10-23 13:15 UTC (Filled)
- Bullish gap of 0.1 pips, formed 2026-10-23 13:00 UTC (Filled)
- Bullish gap of 0.8 pips, formed 2026-10-23 12:45 UTC (Filled)
- Bearish gap of 1.6 pips, formed 2026-10-23 07:30 UTC (Filled)
- Bearish gap of 4.5 pips, formed 2026-10-23 07:15 UTC (Touched, not filled)
Cite this gap
FairValueGaps.com archive scanner. GBPUSD 15m bearish fair value gap, 2 pips, formed 2026-10-23 17:30 UTC. Archive snapshot as of 2026-10-23 18:00 UTC. https://fairvaluegaps.com/gaps/gbpusd-15m-1792773900/
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