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 us 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 |
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