Bitcoin trades every minute of every day, but CME Bitcoin futures stop for the weekend. That mismatch is how a CME gap is born, and why it keeps turning up in the middle of the most stressful weeks.
A CME gap is the blank space on a CME futures chart between Friday’s final traded level and the first traded level when the market reopens Sunday evening (US time). CME futures trade on a weekly schedule with a weekend break, while spot Bitcoin keeps moving. When the first CME print lands far from Friday’s close, the chart draws a jump and leaves an empty zone in between. That zone is the gap.
CryptoSlate’s report on this topic made the key point that the gap is not a mystical force, but a record of time when one market was closed, and the other was still trading. This is not about prophecy. It’s about a calendar mismatch that becomes visible on charts. $BNB $BTC #EthereumLayer2Rethink? #WhaleDeRiskETH #ADPDataDisappoints
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