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Forex Market Hours And Trading Sessions Clock
Live Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York session hours in your own time zone, plus gold and ES, NQ futures trading hours.
How The Trading Sessions Work
Forex, gold and futures trade through the day as business hours move around the world. The market passes from Sydney to Tokyo to London to New York, and each session has its own opening hours in its own local time.
The clock above shows all four sessions in your own time zone, whether each one is open now, and how long until it opens or closes. The timeline bar covers 24 hours, and the gold band marks the hours when London and New York are open together. Use the zone selector to see the same hours in another city.
Because quick trades work best when the market is moving, many traders check the session before they act on an alert. Pair it with the pip and point value calculator and the position size calculator to plan the trade.
Session Hours In Local Time
The hours used by the clock, in each market's own time.
Sydney
7:00 am to 4:00 pm Sydney time. Roughly 21:00 to 06:00 UTC while Australia is on standard time, and 20:00 to 05:00 UTC in daylight time.
Tokyo
9:00 am to 6:00 pm Tokyo time, which is 00:00 to 09:00 UTC all year. Japan does not change its clocks.
London
8:00 am to 5:00 pm London time. That is 08:00 to 17:00 UTC in winter and 07:00 to 16:00 UTC in summer.
New York
8:00 am to 5:00 pm New York time. That is 13:00 to 22:00 UTC in winter and 12:00 to 21:00 UTC in summer.
London / New York Overlap
Usually 13:00 to 17:00 UTC in winter and 12:00 to 16:00 UTC in summer, four hours when both are open.
The London And New York Overlap
The overlap is the stretch when London and New York are both open. It is the busiest part of the day for EURUSD and XAUUSD, because banks and funds in both regions are active at once and price tends to move further in less time.
The overlap is not the same length all year. The US and the UK change their clocks on different dates, so for a few weeks each spring and autumn the overlap runs five hours instead of four. The clock handles this automatically because it reads each city's real time zone rather than a fixed UTC offset.
ProvenSignals alerts are quick trades on short chart timeframes, and many traders look to close after about a 3-5 candle move in the direction of the trade. A market with steady movement gives those candles room to form, which is why the session you trade in matters.
Gold, ES, NQ And Bitcoin Trading Hours
Gold (XAUUSD). Spot gold trades around the clock on weekdays, from Sunday evening to Friday evening New York time. Activity is highest while London and New York are open.
ES and NQ futures. They trade on CME Globex from Sunday 6:00 pm to Friday 5:00 pm New York time, with a break every day from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm. The clock shows the break in your own time zone and counts down to the next open or close.
EURUSD. The forex market follows the same weekly rhythm as gold: it opens when Sydney opens on Sunday evening in New York and closes on Friday afternoon in New York.
Bitcoin (BTC). Bitcoin trades 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no close. Weekends are usually quieter, but there is no break.
Use The Clock With ProvenSignals
A ProvenSignals alert gives the market, the direction and the chart timeframe, for example XAU/USD Buy Signal, Chart 1-minute. Open the same chart, place your stop below recent support for a buy or above recent resistance for a sell, and size the position from that stop.
Check the clock first. If your market is in its break, or the session is about to close, you know before you act. The how to read trading signals guide covers the full routine, and the free signals are on ProvenSignals and Telegram.
Frequently Asked Questions
The forex market is open 24 hours a day from Sunday evening to Friday afternoon, New York time. It is split into the Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York sessions, and the clock shows which are open now.
Usually 13:00 to 17:00 UTC in winter and 12:00 to 16:00 UTC in summer. For a few weeks each spring and autumn, when the US and UK change clocks on different dates, it runs five hours.
CME Globex trades ES and NQ from Sunday 6:00 pm to Friday 5:00 pm New York time, with a daily break from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm New York time.
Spot gold trades around the clock on weekdays, from Sunday evening to Friday evening New York time. It is closed at the weekend.
Yes. It uses the America/New_York, Europe/London, Asia/Tokyo and Australia/Sydney time zones, so each region's clock change is applied on the correct date.
No. Bitcoin trades 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Get The Signals
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