The schedule of trading sessions of the Forex market

Keep abreast of all important events, plan to open and close trades based on the trading schedule on international markets.

How to determine the time of opening and closing trading sessions Forex

 

Track Forex and market participants in a convenient format! You can choose any of the two options for the presentation of the schedule of the trading hours and decide on a convenient time. The market works round the clock 5 days a week. Saturday and Sunday are days off. Conventionally, there are four Forex trading sessions — Asian, European, American and Pacific.

 

Time zone GMT-0

 

 

The title of The session Financial centers UTC/GMT EET
Opening Closure Opening Closure
Pacific Wellington 20:00 02:45 23:00 05:45
Sydney 22:00 04:00 01:00 07:00
Asian Tokyo 00:00 06:00 03:00 09:00
Hong Kong, Singapore 01:00 09:00 04:00 12:00
European Frankfurt, Zurich, Paris 07:00 15:30 10:00 18:30
London 07:00 15:30 10:00 18:30
American New York 13:30 20:00 16:30 23:00
Chicago 12:30 19:00 15:30 22:00

 

 

Column "UTC/GMT" – reflects the opening and closing of trading sessions Forex in coordinated universal time (UTC), it is the average time across Greenwich (GMT). This time is available in summer.

 

The column "EET" – reflects the opening and closing trading sessions of the Forex market is EET (Eastern European Time, EET) corresponding to GMT+2 winter time and GMT+3 summer time (i.e. translated for the summer). This time of the trading server of the company, in accordance with which the graphs in the client terminal.

 

With Universe you can trade on the Forex market round the clock, 7 days a week (weekends can only be traded cryptocurrency):

  • from March to October at 00:05 (GMT+3) Monday to 23:54:59 (GMT+3) Friday;
  • from October to March — from 01:05 (GMT+3) Monday to 00:54:59 (GMT+3) Saturday.

 

Forex trading session do not have a specific schedule. Different cans open at different times, so the time is specified roughly in the following formats GMT, EET (Eastern European) and MSK (Moscow).

 

Supplement

 

The schedule of main trading sessions of stock exchanges

(their local time) and the deviation of the local time zone from UTC

 

Stock exchange: New Zealand Exchange - NZX WELLINGTON

Trading session - 10:00 - 16:45

Time zone - UTC +12

When daylight saving time is UTC +13

At the moment working winter time

 

Stock exchange: Australian Securities Exchange - ASX SYDNEY

Trading session - 10:00 - 16:00

Time zone - UTC +10

When daylight saving time - UTC +11

At the moment working winter time

 

Stock exchange Japan Exchange Group JPX TOKYO

Trading session - 09:00 - 15:00

Time zone - UTC +9

 

Stock exchange: Singapore Exchange - SGX SINGAPORE

Trading session - 09:00 - 17:00

Time zone - UTC +8

 

Stock exchange: Hong Kong - HKEX Hong Kong

Trading session - 09:30 - 16:00

Time zone - UTC +8

 

Stock exchange: Shanghai Stock Exchange - SSE SHANGHAI

Trading session - 09:30 - 15:00

Time zone - UTC +8

 

Stock exchange: National Stock Exchange of India - NSE Mumbai

Trading session - 09:15 - 15:30

Time zone - UTC +5:30

 

Stock exchange: Moscow Exchange MOEX MOSCOW

Trading session - 10:00 - 18:40

Time zone - UTC +3

 

Stock exchange: Dubai Financial Market's - DFM DUBAI

Trading session - 10:00 - 14:00

Time zone - UTC +4

 

Stock exchange: Saudi Stock Exchange - Tadawul RIYADH

Trading session - 10:00 - 15:00

Time zone - UTC +3

 

Stock exchange: Johannesburg Stock Exchange - JSE JOHANNESBURG

Trading session - 09:00 - 17:00

Time zone - UTC +2

 

Stock exchange: Frankfurt Stock Exchange - FWB FRANKFURT

Trading session - 09:00 - 17:30

Time zone - UTC +1

When daylight saving time - UTC +2

Currently DST is active

 

Stock exchange: Swiss Exchange SIX in ZURICH

Trading session - 09:00 - 17:30

Time zone - UTC +1

When daylight saving time - UTC +2

Currently DST is active

 

Stock exchange: London Stock Exchange - LSE LONDON

The trading hours are 08:00 to 16:30

Time zone - UTC 0

When daylight saving time - UTC +1

Currently DST is active

 

Stock exchange: BM&FBOVESPA of SAO PAULO, Brazil

Trading session - 10:00 - 18:00

Timezone - UTC -3

 

Stock exchange: New York Stock Exchange - NYSE NEW YORK

Trading session - 09:30 - 16:00

Time zone - UTC -5

When daylight saving time is UTC -4

Currently DST is active

 

Stock exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange - TSX TORONTO

Trading session - 09:30 - 16:00

Time zone - UTC -5

When daylight saving time is UTC -4

Currently DST is active

 

Stock exchange: Chicago Stock Exchange - CHX CHICAGO

Time of the trading session 08:30 - 15:00

Time zone - UTC -6

At daylight time - UTC -5

Currently DST is active

 

The schedule of daylight saving time:

 

 

The Northern hemisphere Daylight saving time

The transition to winter time

Europe 29.03 01:00 25.10 at 02:00
USA, Canada 08.03 at 02:00 01.11 02:00

 

Southern hemisphere The transition to winter time The transition to winter time
Wellington 05.04 03:00 27.09 at 02:00
Sydney 05.04 03:00 04.10 02:00