[isatrader]

I see so it's better to use the fishhook and wait until later in the day to see how well the gap up holds rather than buy at the open you'd notice the high volume. It was on your watchlist so from there you'd want to keep checking it everyday? 

Do you think is important to catch the open in general when trading? I'll check things on my phone when I wake up but hard to look at charts at the open. I don't trade/hop on computer until mid-morning which is 12:30pm EST Got to get kid sleeping w/o me   cheers!

I use alerts that I set in the evenings that notify me via my phone, as most breakouts happen in the first few hours of the trading day when I'm working. So I can quickly login and then check if I'm going to make the trade or not. It's all about preplanning your trades. You should know what you are looking for and the levels for the potential entry and stop loss in advance. So it's then just a matter of executing the trade if all else is correct.