Forex trading hours, session schedule, holidays and weekends

The Forex exchange operates 24 hours a day, excluding weekends and holidays, although there are some divisions into trading sessions depending on time zones.

This point should also be taken into account in order to make your trading more successful, since sessions usually characterize market activity for certain currency pairs and have distinctive trading features.

Forex trading hours start at 11 pm GMT on Sunday and end at 10 pm on Friday.

GMT is used as the basis for all calculations, with a difference of +4 hours with Moscow time.

Therefore, you can start trading no earlier than 3:00 Moscow time on Monday, and close all orders no later than 2:00 Moscow time on Saturday.

Otherwise, your position will be carried over to the next week and you will have to pay an additional commission.

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