Forex Trading Hours

At FP Markets, you can trade Forex around the clock. Our award-winning support team is available 24 hours a day, 5 days a week, ensuring a seamless trading experience.

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Forex Market Hours

One of the unique features of the foreign exchange market is its accessibility 24 hours a day. This is made possible by overlaps in the trading times of the major sessions. As one major market closes, another one opens. There are four major Forex trading sessions:

Sydney Session

3pm–12am

(EST)
TOKYO Session

7pm–4am

(EST)
LONDON Session

3am–11am

(EST)
NEW YORK Session

8am–5pm

(EST)

All times are listed in Eastern Standard Time (EST) as per New York time for uniformity. Traders should note that countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia observe daylight saving time. Be sure to consider the impact of daylight saving time on the local time in your relevant time zone..

MT4/MT5 Trading Hours

MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 MetaTrader is the world's most popular trading platform and the platform of choice for day traders. FP Markets' trading hours for MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 can be found in the table below. Forex traders should note the following:

FP Markets MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 server time and charts are GMT+2 or GMT+3 when New York Daylight Savings Time is in effect.
We operate these server times to ensure a five-day candle week.
All currency pairs trade 24 hours a day with a break for two minutes between 23:59 and 00:01. The trading week starts on Monday at 00:02 and closes on Friday at 23:57.
This applies to all currencies, including USD, AUD, GBP, EUR, and JPY.

Forex Liquidity and Volatility

These slight delays and small breaks in the day have been implemented to help prevent the widening of spreads when liquidity providers go offline during these times. The liquidity of particular currency pairs also depends on the time of day, as trading volume plays a pivotal role in the liquidity of currency markets.

For instance, the EUR/USD pair experiences high trading volume and liquidity during the confluence of the London and New York sessions, when the two sessions overlap. This is the point in time when the highest number of traders in the United States and Europe are online..

Similarly, the ideal time to trade the Australian dollar against the Hong Kong dollar or Singapore dollar is when the Tokyo and Sydney sessions overlap. This period sees the highest activity from Australian and Asian traders, coinciding with the release of critical economic data for these regions. It's the optimal time for conducting both fundamental and technical analysis to minimize trading risks and identify trading opportunities.

FP Markets is a forex broker that caters to forex traders of all skill levels, emphasizing optimal trading times such as trading the US dollar during the busiest North American session and the Australian dollar during the Sydney session.

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