The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) will permanently stop creating Bitcoin futures gaps when its market moves to 24/7 trading. This change removes a staple chart feature that traders historically watched for price targets. Several open gaps remain on the chart, with the lowest near $67,000, while on-chain data from major exchange Bitfinex shows mixed positioning among large-volume traders.
Starting Friday, CME Group’s Bitcoin futures market will trade 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This ends the phenomenon of futures “gaps” that were created over weekends.
The shift to continuous trading was announced in February amid high client demand. Tim McCourt, CME’s global head of equities, FX and alternative products, cited a record $3 trillion in notional volume across cryptocurrency derivatives in 2025.
These weekend discrepancies often resulted in a market gap, with the BTC/USD pair subsequently attempting to “fill” it. How long this process takes has varied, with some gaps staying unfilled for months or more.
Trader Daan Crypto Trades flagged three nearby gaps remaining on the chart. “This weekend, 24/7 trading starts for the Bitcoin CME futures so there won’t be any new gaps created anymore going forward,” he told followers.
Elsewhere, commentators are eyeing shifting trends among large-volume traders on the Bitfinex exchange. Trader CW reported that whales’ short positions in Bitcoin are shrinking further.
CW added that a new uptrend could be beginning based on stagnating long exposure, but subsequently showed that whales were still adding positions. Earlier, Bitfinex research noted missing ingredients for a full bullish trend reversal.
