Forex Trading Hours

NexusFi · 2011-02-23T02:55:52-05:00

Did you pay attention to the different daylight savings times? Europe has different dates for switching from standard time to summer time than the US. As far as I know, Japan has no daylight savings times schedule at all. The necessary methods are now all available with .NET 3.5., which was not the case with .Net 2.0, so you can easily use them to determine the correct values for the variable exchange_gmt which you use in your indicator code. Thanks Fattails. I am not sure if i can code that, I only …

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Forex Trading Hours

February 23rd, 2011, 02:55 AM

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Fat Tails

Your London start time is a bit late. Volume shows that the dealers are already at their desks around 7:00 GMT, because otherwise they miss the Asian-European overlap.

I know, I just set the predefined hours according to Market-Hours . I normally trade the London/NewYork overlap session.

The trading sessions can be easily changed by changing the predefined sessions in the script.