Quant Lab.

This is a versioned, experimental interpretation of the gap concepts. Numeric cutoffs are this lab's technical choices. They are not numerical thresholds supplied by Sami, entry instructions or a probability of success. The sources also discuss partial points and special cases that this five-point profile does not reproduce.

CURRENT NORMALIZER ATR(14): 1.00 price units, calculated from completed history. Today's opening gap does not change it.

Experimental lab profile 1

This is an operational interpretation of the source concepts, not a validated reproduction of Sami's discretionary ratings. Each of five criteria earns 0 or 1 point. Partial points, penalties and source-specific exceptions are not implemented.

Past prices only

20 SMA and 200 SMA are arithmetic means of the latest 20 and 200 completed closes. At least 20 completed bars are required. ATR is the arithmetic mean of the latest 14 true ranges, using each preceding close. Today's open never enters either calculation.

Immediate direction

A prior body or two-session close change is meaningful at 0.35 ATR. A body of at least 0.75 ATR has priority. Opposing body and two-session moves of at least 0.50 ATR each leave the direction unresolved.

Family before quality

Professional behavior opposes the immediate move and reclaims the prior body, or clears a measured base without prior extension. Novice behavior follows the immediate move when the prior close was already at least 1.50 ATR from its 20 SMA in that direction. A gap that creates extension from a modest prior lift remains in-between.

Observed local price zones

Within 120 sessions, confirmed high or low pivots use two completed bars on each side. A zone needs at least two tests four sessions apart, clustered within 0.35 ATR of its center, with a 0.05 ATR edge allowance. Its most recent test must be within 80 sessions. A zone already more than 0.35 ATR behind the prior close is excluded. Selection ranks opening distance in ATR plus 0.012 per session since the latest test, minus 0.08 per extra test, capped at five extra tests. These are measured daily references, not assumed weekly or all-time levels.

Professional clearance

Location passes only when the open clears the selected zone by at least 0.05 ATR. Size passes only after location passes and clearance is no more than 0.75 ATR. A prior body of 1.00 ATR or more is described as wide. Missing zones leave location and size unavailable.

Novice extension and location

The reversal track's location passes within 0.75 ATR of the selected resistance or support zone only while the open has not cleared it as a fresh breakout. Its size passes when the gap is at least 0.75 ATR and the open is at least 3.00 ATR from the prior 20 SMA. A longer move needs at least 2.50 ATR over 20 completed sessions and at least three of the latest five close changes of 0.25 ATR or more in the gap direction.

Quasi is a context qualifier

A preceding 20 to 60 session consolidation, excluding the last three bars, needs efficiency no greater than 0.25, net movement no greater than 1.50 ATR and width no greater than 5.00 ATR. A novice-like departure must already extend beyond its edge by 0.35 ATR and be at least 1.00 ATR from the 20 SMA. A prior body of 2.00 ATR does not become quasi merely because an older base exists. A clean wide opposing-bar reset is professional without the qualifier, unless it reverses an isolated brief gap cluster from a consolidation. An opening reset of that cluster can support quasi-professional behavior before a completed island is known. Quasi never assigns a tier automatically.

Aligned market comparison

Stock and benchmark must have matching, ordered dated sessions and the same later opening session. Returns compare each open with its own prior close. A 0.10 percentage point market deadband is treated as flat. A flat or opposing market supports the professional track; a co-directional market supports the novice reversal track. A flat market leaves the novice point unclear. These are context checks, not predictions.

Five-point quality tracks

5 points is Tier 1, 4 is Tier 2, and 3 is Tier 3. Fewer than 3 is unrated. Unclear or unavailable checks retain a possible score range and a provisional rating based on its upper bound. Four known points plus one missing check is a possible Tier 1, never a completed Tier 1. The professional track evaluates continuation with the gap; the novice track evaluates reversal against it.

200 SMA is a separate qualifier

A crossing or a distance within 0.50 ATR of the 200 SMA is reported as context. It does not change the family or award an extra point. Today's later high, low, close, intraday response and confirmed island outcome remain unknown.