Forex market hours in your time zone, with the daily candle close

At 5:00 p.m. New York time, which in your country is the time in the table above. In Nigeria, for example, it's 10:00 p.m. from the second Sunday of March until the first Sunday of November, and 11:00 p.m. the rest of the year. With the Sunday open the Monday daily candle begins.

The market closes on Friday at 5:00 p.m. New York time, and the Friday daily candle and the weekly candle close with it. There are no new prices until Sunday at the same hour, even though news keeps coming out over the weekend, and that's why the price can open far from where it closed.

At most MetaTrader brokers, the daily candle closes at 5:00 p.m. New York time, because they set their server to UTC+2 or UTC+3 so that the server's midnight falls at that hour. If your broker's server is on another time zone, its candle closes at another hour, and you can check it above, under "What time does the candle close at your broker?"

Yes. It's closed on Saturday, on Sunday until 5:00 p.m. New York time and on Friday from that hour. Banks stay shut but news doesn't, so the Sunday open can gap away from Friday's close.

From Sunday at 5:00 p.m. New York time to Friday at the same hour, day and night. If every page gives you a different time, it's because some give GMT, others a country's time and others New York's, and most ignore the clock changes: a table that says 4:00 p.m. in Chicago without saying which weeks it means is wrong for part of the year. Here everything comes from 5:00 p.m. New York time, converted with the time zone database of your browser.

Four: Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York. They have no official hours, so every page uses its own. Here we use the working day of each city (9:00 to 18:00 in Sydney and Tokyo, 8:00 to 17:00 in London and New York) with its own clock changes. London and New York overlap for a few hours, and that's when there's usually more movement.

The market itself doesn't change, but the hour on your clock does. It always opens and closes at 5:00 p.m. New York time, and New York changes its clocks on the second Sunday of March and the first Sunday of November. If your country also changes its clocks, the time moves again when yours does, and for a few weeks a year Europe and the United States are out of step. Countries with no clock changes, like Nigeria, India and Japan, see the time move only when New York changes.

It depends on the time frame you speculate on. On the daily and the weekly, which is how we work at TendenciasFX, the best time is the one that lets you look at the chart with the candle already closed, and calmly, so after the close time in the table above. If you speculate in minutes, some hours do have more movement than others, like when London and New York are open at the same time. But on the daily and the weekly I'd say you only need to know when the candle closes, without sitting in front of the screen at any particular hour.

The market opens on Monday at 2:30 a.m. Indian time from the second Sunday of March until the first Sunday of November, and at 3:30 a.m. the rest of the year, and it closes on Saturday at the same hour. India doesn't change its clocks, so the time only moves when New York changes. The daily candle closes at that same hour every day.

On Friday at 10:00 p.m. Nigerian time from the second Sunday of March until the first Sunday of November, and at 11:00 p.m. the rest of the year. Nigeria doesn't change its clocks, so it's New York that moves the time. The daily candle closes at that hour every day, too.

On December 25 and January 1 most brokers don't open the currency market, because the big financial centers are closed, and on the 24th and the 31st they usually close early. Your broker publishes the exact hours every year, and which day of the week they fall on this year is above, under the table by country.

Mostly yes. When it's a holiday in one country, the market stays open because the rest of the world is working, although that country's currency moves less. The exceptions are December 25 and January 1, when most brokers don't open. Your broker publishes the exact hours.

On Friday at 5:00 p.m. New York time, with the close of the market, and the next one starts on Sunday at that same hour, with the open. In your country it's the time in the table above, the same as the daily candle close.

Because MetaTrader shows the time of your broker's server, which can be different from your country's. At most brokers the server is on UTC+2 in winter and UTC+3 in US summer, so the daily candle closes at the server's midnight, which is 5:00 p.m. New York time. You can leave it alone, because all you need is to know what time in your country that midnight falls.

Because your broker has its server on a time zone where the Sunday open still falls on a Sunday, UTC for example. Those few hours make a candle of their own, a small one, and your daily candles are no longer the ones of the great majority of brokers, so the Levels you draw on them can come out different. With the server on UTC+2 or UTC+3 it doesn't happen.