Stacked Overnight Catalysts and Gap Risk: When a Fed Decision and Megacap Earnings Collide
Some sessions stack catalysts: a Fed decision and megacap earnings hours apart, resolving overnight while the market is closed and you cannot act. This is a mechanical look at what compounding overnight events do to gap risk, why a stop-loss is not the protection most traders assume it is across a gap, and how automated exit logic behaves when the market reopens somewhere far from where it closed.