# Gap down bought back — NSE scan

> Opened more than 2% in the hole and closed green from the open — the morning panic that found buyers.

Canonical: https://patternsradar.com/screener/gap-down-recovery

```sift
where open < close[-1] * 0.98 and close > open
```

A gap down is the overnight news priced in one print; what happens next is the market's verdict on whether the price was right. When a 2% hole gets bought back to a close above the open, the sellers got their exit and the stock ran out of them — the bear-trap anatomy, visible on a daily bar.

Category: [Volatility](https://patternsradar.com/scans/volatility.md). Default universe: top 500 NSE stocks by 20-day turnover.

The rendered page runs this scan against the latest session and can replay it across the last 250 sessions to measure its hit rate: https://patternsradar.com/screener/gap-down-recovery.