A universal Forex holiday calendar with country selection and for any year

As has been said many times, holidays always play a major role on any exchange, including Forex.

This is primarily due to the fact that 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.

And there is no need to explain to anyone what the consequences of price gaps against an open position are.

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

Information about upcoming holidays can be found on financial websites, although it is often outdated or doesn't meet your needs.

InstaForex created a universal Forex holiday calendar :

The advantage of this tool is that you can select not only the year for which you want to display information, but also the country.

For example, if we're interested in trading on Russian exchanges, we'll select 2021 and Russia:

As a result, we can see which days trading in ruble currency pairs may be limited or closed entirely. When you hover over the circle highlighting a specific date on the calendar, a tooltip appears with the name of the holiday.

The tool is quite interesting and useful for many traders, although testing revealed that only Russian holidays are accurately displayed for 2021; for other countries, only information from previous years is available.

But this isn't such a critical issue, as US Independence Day is still celebrated on July 4th in 2021, just as it was on July 4th in 2020, with the only exception being certain religious holidays. Perhaps the developers will fix this bug later.

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