Stop noise check
How often normal wiggle alone reaches your stop.
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Market hours in your time
The sessions, the busy overlap, the daily break and the weekend close, in your own clock today. Daylight saving included.
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Your next busiest hours: Thu 13:00 to 17:00. That is the London and New York overlap in UTC time (UTC), when gold and the big currency pairs usually move most.
| Centre | Opens | Closes |
|---|---|---|
| Sydney open now | Wed 21:00 | Thu 06:00 |
| Tokyo open now | Wed 23:00 | Thu 08:00 |
| London | Thu 08:00 | Thu 17:00 |
| New York | Thu 13:00 | Thu 22:00 |
- Next daily break
- From Thu 22:00 to 23:00: 17:00 to 18:00 New York time, when most brokers pause gold, spreads widen and the swap is charged. Avoid holding a tight stop through it.
- Weekend
- The market closes Fri 22:00 and opens again Sun 23:00. A trade held over the weekend can open far past its stop: see the gap risk check.
Usual conventions, not one broker's timetable: check your platform's trading hours, and holidays, when centres close early or not at all.
Education only, not investment advice. The answer comes from the numbers you typed in, not from your account or the market. Simulated results are hypothetical and have limits: real trading has slippage, gaps, changing results and emotions. Trading leveraged products can lose money quickly, including all of it. Risk warning
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Why the hours matter
Gold and currencies trade around the clock on weekdays, but not evenly. The Asian hours are usually quiet, London adds most of the day's movement, and the hours when London and New York are both open are usually the busiest. A stop that is fine at 3 in the morning in London can sit inside the noise at the New York open.
The overlap moves twice a year. The US changes its clocks two or three weeks before Europe in spring and one week after it in autumn, so for those weeks the overlap starts an hour early. This page works from today's date, so it is right on those weeks too.
- Which hours gold actually moves most, from our own hourly prices: the best time to trade gold.
- How far normal wiggle reaches in the hours you hold: the stop noise check. Put your trading hours in your trading plan.
Not advice. Times follow common conventions; your broker's schedule decides.
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