Universal calendar of Forex holidays with choice of country and for any year

As has been said more than once, holidays on any exchange, including Forex, always play a big role.

This is primarily due to the fact that before the weekend market liquidity , and with this comes a widening of spreads and an increase in other commissions.

In addition to the fact that you will have to pay an additional swap for all holidays, the opening of trading sessions after a long break is often marked by price gaps, gaps.

And no one needs to explain what price gaps against an open position are fraught with.

Therefore, most traders always try to take into account the availability of a day off on a particular exchange when planning their transactions.

Information about upcoming holidays can be found on the pages of financial websites, although it is often outdated or does not meet your needs.

the company InstaForex appeared :

The advantage of this tool is that you can select not only the year for which information should be displayed, but also the country.

For example, we are interested in trading on Russian exchanges, in this case we select 2021 and Russia:

As a result, we see on which days trading in ruble currency pairs may be limited or even closed. When you hover your cursor over the circle that highlights a specific date on the calendar, a tooltip pops up with the name of the holiday itself.

The tool is quite interesting and useful for many traders, although during testing it turned out that for 2021 only Russian holidays are adequately displayed; for other countries you can only see information on past years.

But this is not so critical, because just as the US Independence Day was on July 4 in 2020, it is celebrated on July 4 in 2021, the only exception being some religious holidays. Perhaps later the developers will fix the existing error.

You can find this informer and other useful documents on the broker’s website - https://www.instaforex.com/ru/