ABOUT THE GAP GUY

My name is Scott Andrews and I live in Cary,      North Carolina with my wife and four daughters.     I graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1987 and proudly served our country as an Army officer and aviator (helicopter pilot) for 5 years, including Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield.  I earned an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1995 and subsequently co-founded SciQuest, www.sciquest.com, a web-based software company which we took public in 1999 (yes, you could have done quite well shorting our stock in 2000 and yes, it did survive, though private now).

My first trade was in 1991 and I have been trading full time for a living since 2004.  Gaps are my "bread and butter" trade.  At the encouragement of some fellow traders, I started calling out my daily gap plays in a live trading room in early 2007.  The volume of interest coupled with the dearth of quality gap trading information on the web, prompted the development of MasterTheGap.com.  

My original gap work was conducted using Excel and focused on the Dow.  I now focus primarily on the S&P 500 e-mini futures (ES) and have created a comprehensive gap strategy using a Tradestation application that I co-developed.  I have spent considerable time and effort studying, developing, back-testing, and trading my gap strategy and am on the 4th version of my gap system.

There are many different ways to trade gaps successfully.  My goal is to provide you with research, tools, and inspiration to help you create your own consistently, profitable gap strategy while establishing a community of "gappers" that benefits everyone. 

Carpe Diem!