Forum FAQ Calendar Community Member Trade Forum Actions Mark Forums Best Quick Links View Site Leaders Top MT4 brokers What's New? Forum General trading Trading discussion The Best and the Worst Times to Trade Forex. Results 1 to forex of The Best and the Worst Times to Trade Forex. Thread Tools Show Printable Version Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode. The Best trade the Worst Times to Trade Forex One of the biggest plusses that the foreign exchange market forex traders consists of the fact that currencies trade twenty four hours a day, five days a week. This means that you can start trading Sunday afternoon EST and continue trading non stop all the way until Friday afternoon EST. This round the clock trading feature gives traders with workaholic tendencies a perfect market times in which to operate. The reason this opportunity exists has to do with time zones and where markets open in different parts of the world. For example, because the day begins in the Far East, the forex market opens in New Zealand, Australia and Asia first, then Europe and then North America. Nevertheless, poor times to trade also exist, and so the sections below will cover the forex market's time table and the best and worst times to trade. All times mentioned will be expressed in Eastern Standard Time or EST. World Forex Markets Time Table The foreign exchange market opens with the Sydney session at 5: Wellington then closes at midnight, while Sydney then closes at worst Throughout the following forex trading week, the Sydney open at 5: In other words, when the market in New York closes on Monday at 5: This allows many professional forex traders based in New York to pass their order books on to traders based in Sydney for watching at least until the Tokyo opening. Two hours after the Sydney open, the forex market opens in Tokyo The Asian or Tokyo session at 7: Singapore and Hong Kong open two hours after Tokyo at 9: Interestingly, the final Asian Session trading hour when the London Session opens while the Asian session is closing down, makes up one of the busiest forex trading times. In the European session, Frankfurt opens at 2: East Cost North American best open in New York at 8: And trading is one hour later and California trading is three hours later. The forex trading times therefore go full circle throughout the week, and the best market trades until Friday afternoon's New York Session closes. At this point, forex trading ends trade the week. After the New York close at 5: This break runs for the rest of Friday, during all of Saturday and forex 5: Best Times to Trade the Foreign Exchange And You may have noticed when reading the previous section that at several times of the day more than one market is best at the same time. These overlapping times usually provide the greatest degree of liquidity in certain currency pairs, as well as wider pip range movements. This tends to make these more liquid periods better times to trade, theoretically at least. Basically, since more liquidity and a higher volume of trades will often be more beneficial to the speculative forex trader, certain times when trading is heavier in particular currency pairs can give a trader the edge needed to be profitable. This is especially true for traders using short term strategies like scalping or day trading. The European-North American Overlap: Trading in all worst European currencies is heaviest during this period and offers the most liquidity for currency pairs involving the Euro, Pound Sterling and Swiss Franc. Such especially liquid overlapping times would include the important 8: Frankfurt forex also open from 8AM until The Asian European Overlap: This time period usually offers the most liquidity for the Japanese Yen, as well as the European Times crosses. Another good time to trade in order to take advantage of several different markets being open simultaneously, is between 1: The Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong forex markets continue trading throughout this overlap times. The Frankfurt and London markets then open at 2: The Australian Asian Overlap: This time period tends worst have the most liquidity for the Australian and New Zealand Dollars and their crosses. Trading in Australia and New Zealand overlaps with Tokyo from 7: This makes the overlap period from 9: Trading Times to Watch Out For Between 5: You can also trade into the thinner markets in New Zealand that opens at 4: This represents a window of time during the trading day, when the market could and thin and so price spreads may widen significantly. Basically, avoiding trading during illiquid time periods trade in highly volatile markets can save you money, both in terms of your trading position and in the amount of the bid offer spread you may be quoted for the transaction. Other times which may not be as advantageous to trade include the Sunday night session, as well as Fridays when the market is looking forward to the weekend and so typically trades worst as positions are squared. Another risky trading time is when important numbers such as U. Non-Farm Payrolls come out. If the actual number differs considerably from the market's consensus expectation, then the exchange rate can shift rapidly to discount the new information as fast as possible. The best trading hours are the times when volume and volatility levels are highest. High trading volume means that more lots of a particular currency pair are being bought and sold and high volatility means that the currency pair is moving fast and trending quickly. High volume and strong volatile cause large pip movements during the best trading hours. Moreover, the spreads become narrower during high volume trading hours, and narrow spreads means lower transaction costs. I now use scalping techniques in TenkoFx ECN account when worst are sideway. CahCuncun View Profile View Forum Posts. We can trade when times are in good condition, i mean, our emotion is controlled. Try to more improve our trading skills if we want to get more maximal result in forex. Then try to use demo account to make us be more ready to trade. Choosing time depends on trader, He best choose a time in which he is free and can spend time without disturbance, if the markets are turbulent the its an opportunity for traders too, but it depends on your experience. And View Profile View Forum Posts. Originally Posted by orni Originally Posted by ebi. Originally Posted by veljia. ECN seem best for trade trading purpose, and still I read many article about slippage happen during news event, so how does tickmill react on this? Best Times to Trade: These are also the times where major news events come out to potentially spark some volatility and directional movements. 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