Trading Hours

The status pill at the top of this page shows the live state: FX open if the server clock is between Monday 00:00 and Friday 23:59, FX closed on weekends. If the pill says closed, the line beside it tells you the exact server-time moment trading reopens. Major holidays (Christmas, New Year, Good Friday and regional bank holidays) can shut FX briefly even on weekdays, so check the matrix below if you're trading near one. Cryptocurrency CFDs trade 24/7, including weekends, so even when forex is closed, BTCUSD, ETHUSD and the rest are still active.

In summer (UTC+3 server, the current schedule): Sydney opens 01:00 server, Tokyo 03:00, London 11:00, New York 16:00. In winter (UTC+2 server): Sydney 00:00, Tokyo 02:00, London 10:00, New York 15:00. The London / New York overlap (16:00 to 20:00 server in summer, 15:00 to 19:00 in winter) is the highest-volume window for FX majors. These anchors hold most of the year, with short windows around DST transitions in mid-March, late October and early November where the offsets drift by an hour because the regions roll over at different times.

The MT5 server runs on European time and follows European daylight saving. It is currently UTC+3 (summer time, last Sunday of March to last Sunday of October), then switches to UTC+2 the rest of the year. The page lists every cutoff in the schedule's published server time so it matches what you see on your terminal. Daily candles close at 00:00 server time. The toggle on the clock above swaps the page into your local time if you prefer.

MT5 isn't quoting the instrument. Open positions stay on the books, but you can't open, close, or modify anything. Stops, take-profits, and pending orders won't trigger because there's no price to trigger against. They sit dormant until pricing resumes, at which point pending orders are evaluated against the new price, which may be far from where you set them if there was a gap.

They stay open. Early close just means trading halts at the listed time, not that anything gets liquidated. After the cutoff you can't place new orders, and SL/TP orders won't fire until the next session opens. Two things to watch when holding through any holiday window: gap risk on reopen (especially indices and stocks), and wider spreads on either side of the cutoff.

Forex trades continuously from Sunday evening to Friday evening, about 24 hours a day, five days a week. Anchored to 5pm New York time, the open lands at Monday 00:00 server time and the close lands at Friday 23:59 server time. The market closes on weekends because the global settlement system and bank trading desks don't operate Saturday and Sunday. Crypto CFDs are the exception. They trade 24/7 because crypto markets never close.

Usually yes, especially in the last hour before an early close and the first hour after a late open. Liquidity is thinner because fewer banks and venues are quoting. Tighten position size and widen stops accordingly.

Swap accrues every trading day, but the triple-swap day is not the same for every asset class. FX, metals and natural gas charge three days of swap on Wednesday. Indices, oil and US stocks charge it on Friday. Cryptocurrency CFDs charge swap every day, including weekends. Holidays themselves don't change that calendar.

Usually yes, on reduced hours. Gold follows the COMEX calendar. On major US holidays metals typically trade a shortened session with an early close instead of closing for the full day. The exact cutoff for the current window is in the schedule table above, in server time.

Each instrument follows its home venue's calendar: CME Group, ICE, NYSE, HKEX, Euronext, JPX. Several venues can observe holidays on the same date. One day can then bring early closes on some products and pricing-off windows on others. The table above shows each instrument's state for every date in the current window.

Rarely. Forex trades 24/5 and most bank holidays leave it untouched. Crypto CFDs trade 24/7, holidays included. When an exception does affect a currency pair, it appears as its own row in the schedule above.

This page updates each month with the next bank-holiday window once it's been confirmed against the relevant venue calendars. Past schedules are kept in the archive below for reference. We don't pre-share future months until they're published here.