How will exchanges work during Easter 2024?

This year, 2024, the celebration of Catholic Easter falls on Sunday, March 31st. How will exchanges work on holidays and pre-holidays?

Although the holiday itself traditionally falls on a Sunday, traders may experience a change in trading on Thursday, March 28 and Monday, April 1.

March 28, 2024 (Maundy Thursday) – early closure or absence of trading is expected on stock exchanges in the following countries - Argentina, Venezuela, Denmark, Iceland, Colombia, Costa Rica, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Sweden.

This will lead to a drop in liquidity for some assets, especially if they are directly related to the above-mentioned countries.

March 29, 2024 (Good Friday) – almost all world exchanges are closed, trading is not carried out on such assets as securities, indices, energy resources, metals.

At the same time, trading in assets such as currencies and cryptocurrencies with most stock brokers will take place as usual.

April 1, 2024 (Easter) is a day off, many stock exchanges are closed. At the same time, some brokers may also have restrictions on trading in energy resources and metals. Everything is purely individual, check the trading mode yourself at your brokerage company.

Trading in cryptocurrencies and classic currency pairs occurs without restrictions.

April 2, 2024 is a normal business day, trading of all assets will be carried out as usual.

Although some of the assets will be available for trading over the Easter 2024 holidays, there may be a significant reduction in liquidity which will lead to widening spreads.

Therefore, control this indicator; for convenience, you can use the spread indicator .