Directly in front of you is a multifunctional living online price chart. You can view any tickers of all stock exchanges in the world. You can see asset quotes in real time. In case you don't know a specific ticker, enter the company name instead, you will get a list with possible options.

Also on the chart, you can set the time interval, set your own indicators, set up different types of displays, as well as use other features of the live chart.

In the upper right corner you can see the inscriptions delayed And closed.

• delayed (detainees) is the time of the pre-market or after-market, when orders are accepted by the exchange, the prices of new contracts between buyers and sellers are set.
• closed (closed) — this means that the auction is currently closed. This is due to the fact that the exchange is currently closed (non-working hours or weekends).

Live price chart online displays quotes according to Moscow time. (If you don't see the charts, refresh the page). Below you will find detailed instructions for managing the price schedule online.

Live price chart

Chart settings instructions

Selection of assets
By default, the charts show Amazon stocks and the EUR/USD currency pair. These assets are selected as an example, but you can specify the asset you need. If you want to select other assets, then you need to delete the current ticker in a special field, and you will immediately see an extensive menu with all assets, divided into categories -, and others. If you know the ticker of the desired asset, then you should simply enter it in the field. For example, the Google ticker is written as GOOG. If you don't know the ticker then you can only enter the company name and the smart search will give you options to choose from.

Graph time interval

Do not forget that the online price chart has different time intervals. Following the choice of the desired asset, there will be a unit. This is the timeframe setting, which is equal to one minute. You can set the chart to an hourly or daily interval, where each candle or bar will equal the value of the interval. Viewing different intervals can be useful when technical analysis, identifying trends, drawing up support and resistance lines, as well as setting up indicators.

Live Chart Indicators

In the chart menu, in the center, there is an INDICATORS button. When you click on it, a menu of indicators will open. Some indicators can be a real godsend for you. able to reflect the current mood of the market and predict the future direction of the price. There are many types of indicators that display trends, volumes, volatility, overbought or oversold assets. In current charts, it is possible to include many indicators at the same time.

Graph types

Also in the menu settings of the live price chart online there are buttons with price line display settings, for example, bars, Japanese candlesticks, a line chart and other price display options. These tools can be part of technical analysis. By default, the charts are enabled, which show maximum information and are of great importance in technical analysis. But besides them, you can choose other types of price display, for example, Renko or Kagi. It is worth saying that 2 types remain the most convenient charts - Japanese candlesticks and a simple linear view or Area. Two extremes of display - from the maximum of information to the minimum.

Professional Settings

On the left there is a strip with tools for building technical analysis on the chart manually. These tools are for advanced traders who want to build additional support and resistance levels, build their own calculations without using indicators. These methods are suitable only for those who are very well versed in technical analysis or have their own strategies.

Popular stock tickers:
Apple-AAPL
Google - GOOG
facebook-fb
Cisco Systems-CSCO
Intel Corporation - INTC
Deutsche Bank-DBK
Barclays - BARC
British Petroleum-BP
Coca-Cola Company - K.O.
Amazon.com-AMZN
Microsoft-MSFT
Sberbank of Russia - SBER3
Bank of America-BAC
JPMorgan Chase-JPM
McDonald's-MCD
Twitter-TWTR
Walt Disney-DIS
Daimler AG-DAIGn
Gazprom-GAZP
Rosneft-ROSN
Renault-RENA
Toyota Motor-TM

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All traders are well aware that the forex market operates 24 hours 5 days a week. And everyone at least once asked the question: When is the best time to trade, and when should you refrain from making transactions? About this and how to determine your time relative to UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) or GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), we will talk in this article.

The trading week technically starts on Sunday morning in Tel Aviv, Israel, but due to low trading volume, this session is ignored. And the real beginning is considered to be with the beginning of trading in Wellington ( New Zealand). But here, too, the trading floor is quite small, and therefore the market comes to life only when trading begins in Tokyo (Japan) and Sydney (Australia). Then the largest trading center in London (England) connects and at this time, as a rule, the market becomes significantly more active. The peak of trading activity occurs when New York (the second largest trading center in terms of trading volume) is added to the London session.

That is why during the day it is customary to allocate 4 main trading sessions:

• Australia and Oceania(Sydney, Wellington)
• Asian session(Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong)
• European session(London, Zurich, Paris, Frankfurt)
• American session(New York, Chicago, Toronto)

Where and at what time in UTC this or that trading session begins is clearly visible on these exchange hours:

This watch shows the real time of the global market and helps you to accurately see the beginning and end of trading sessions. The hour hand of a stock watch, unlike ordinary watches, makes only 1 revolution during the day (1 revolution in 24 hours), and the minute and second hands make a revolution in 60 minutes and 60 seconds, respectively, as in ordinary watches. On weekends, the clock runs in demo mode. You can see a simplified principle of the stock clock in the picture below:

The structure of the stock clock scale:

In addition to the above, these exchange clocks will help determine the offset of your broker's time relative to UTC or GMT, which is necessary for setting settings in some . For example, your current clock is 15:32 and the stock clock is 13:32. In this case, your broker's time is UTC+2 (GMT+2).

Essentially, UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) and GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) represent the same time. Now I will not write the prehistory of the formation of both systems of time reference. Let me just say that they differ only by 1 second due to the fact that GMT time is unstable within one second per year, and the UTC system is younger than GMT.

GMT time:

And among other things, the UTC system and the GMT system are constant and do not translate to "winter" / "summer" time. That is why the UTC system is accepted as more convenient for exchange hours and the working hours of forex exchanges are calculated according to this time.

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Is that there is no centralized trading venue, as it happens, for example, on the stock exchange. All market participants (banks, investment funds, hedge funds, Insurance companies, brokers, etc.) are located in various time zones around the world. As a result, exchange rates fluctuate constantly.

The official working hours of the exchange are 24 hours a day, 5 days a week from 20:00 Sunday to 23:00 Friday (UTC/GMT). The exception is public holidays, when all financial institutions are closed. Unofficially, the forex market also operates on weekends, but due to low volumes and activity, it is very difficult to find liquidity providers for trading on the market. All financial transactions at this time take place mainly between different financial institutions, banks, and most often when absolutely necessary.

It is conditionally possible to distinguish 4 temporary trading sessions: Pacific, Asian, European and American.

Each session has its own characteristics, so it is important that every trader knows them and takes them into account in his trading in order to improve his profit indicators. Consider each time interval under a microscope:

Pacific: opens the market after the weekend, and its name speaks for itself. This is the quietest time on the market, trading "calm". Market activity creates stock exchanges, New Zealand and Australian banks. Due to the low volume of financial flows, this session is often added to the Asian one.

Asian: enters work 3 hours after the opening of the exchange in Wellington. Activity is moderate. Opens the session Tokyo - the financial center of Asia. Not surprisingly, the number of trading positions on a pair such as USD/JPY at this time can reach 78% (compared to EUR/USD ≈ 15%). In addition to Japan, liquidity is also created by countries such as Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and India. The most volatile pairs: USD/JPY, GBP/JPY, AUD/JPY. Together, Asia and the Pacific represent 21% of the daily volume.

European: when the Asians slowly curtail their activity in the market, Europe comes on the podium. It's no secret that the strongest economy in the region is in Germany, the most stable is Switzerland, but the financial capital is in London, which takes on 30% of the total. This is due to the strategic geographical position of the city itself, which is, as it were, a conductor between Western Europe and the Eastern Atlantic, as well as the fact that London "has time" to participate in 3 trading sessions. But do not forget about such countries as France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, countries of the Near and Middle East, African countries - they all create not very large, but certain liquidity. The most popular trading pairs at this time are: EUR/USD, GBP/USD, EUR/GBP, USD/CHF, GBP/CHF, GBP/JPY.

American: the most important news, fundamental data, events fall within this period, and, as a result, the highest liquidity in the market. Do not forget that 80% of all trading positions include such a component as U.S. $. The largest financial center in the world - New York, goes to work at 13:00 (UTC), when Europe returns from lunch. This is a time of increased trading activity on EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/CAD, USD/CHF, GBP/CAD. In addition to the USA and Canada, Mexico, Brazil and other countries of South and Latin America add trading volumes. AUDUSD and NZDUSD trade more in the US-Pacific.

In conclusion, we will give a table of the average price movement of the main currency pairs in points, depending on the trading session.

(Forex) works around the clock 5 days a week (except for national holidays, which are bank holidays), because in each time zone there are institutions that buy and sell currencies during their working day. Therefore, the market does not actually have a daily trading session, but a weekly session. The weekly market opens at 23:00 GMT on Sunday in Tokyo and closes at 22:00 on Friday in Chicago.
Four regional markets stand out rather conditionally: Australia, Asia, Europe, America.
On weekdays, it sequentially moves through the following financial centers: New Zealand (Wellington) - Australia (Sydney) - Japan (Tokyo) - China (Hong Kong) - Singapore (Singapore) - Germany (Fankfurt am Main) and Switzerland (Zurich) - Great Britain (London) - USA (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles).
on interbank sites they work according to the following time slices (opening and closing are indicated according to MSK "summer time"):

Region	City	Opening session	Closing the session	Difference from GMT (Greenwich	Difference from MSK (Moscow)
Australia and Oceania	Wellington (New Zealand)	00:00	08:00	-11	-8
Sydney, Australia)	01:00	09:00	-9	-6
Asian	Tokyo, Japan)	04:00	13:00	-9	-6
Hong Kong (China)	05:00	14:00	-8	-5
Singapore (Singapore)	05:00	14:00	-7	-4
European	Fankfurt am Main (Germany)	10:00	20:00	+1	+2
Zurich (Switzerland)	10:00	20:00	+1	+2
Paris, France)	10:00	21:00	+1	+2
London, Great Britain)	11:00	20:00	+1	+3
American session	New York, USA)	16:00	02:00	+5	+8
Chicago (USA)	17:00	03:00	+6	+9
Los Angeles, USA)	20:00	05:00	+8	+11

In fact, trade does not stop even during the holidays, which are almost universal. So during the New Year, trading can be carried out by banks of Muslim countries, in which January 1 is not an official bank holiday.
Unofficially, the market works even on weekends, however, on holidays and on weekends, the volumes on the market are so insignificant (thin) that it is difficult to find a good counterparty at a good price. In addition, although the weekends and arrive in Information Systems, transactions on them are concluded only with counterparties with whom the bank has “long-term ties”.
According to the time zones, the activity of trading in various currency pairs is also manifested. For example, on the Asian market, large volumes are traded on EUR/JPY, etc.
The most period is usually the beginning of the American session, in addition, the most "strong" fundamental news usually comes out at the beginning of the American session.

Financial and holidays

Month	frankfurt	Zurich	London	NY	Tokyo	Sydney
January	1 (New Year)	January 1 (New Year), January 2 (New Year's Day)	January 1 (New Year)	January 1 (New Year), 3rd Monday (Martin Luther King's birthday.	January 1 (New Year), January 2 (bank holiday), January 3 (bank holiday)	1 (New Year), 26 (Australia Day)
February	-	-	-	3rd Monday (President's Day)	February 11 (Founding of the Nation)	-
March	Easter	Easter	-	Easter	March 20 (Spring Equinox)	-
April	-		Friday before Easter (Good Friday), Monday after Easter (Easter Monday).	-	29 nature)	Friday before Easter (Good Friday), Monday after Easter (Easter Monday). 25 (Soldier's Day)
May	May 1 workers)	May 1 (Labor Day), 39th day after Easter (Ascension), 50th day after Easter (Trinity)	First Monday (May Bank Holiday), Last Monday (Spring Bank Holiday)	Last Monday (Memorial Day)	May 3 (Constitution Day), May 4 (Citizens' Day of Rest), May 5 (Children's Day)	-
June	-	-	-	-	-	Second Monday (Queen's Birthday)
July	-	-	-	4 (Independence Day)	July 20 (Navy Forces Day)	-
August	-	August 1 (Independence Day)	Last Monday in August (Summer bank holiday)	-	-	First Monday bank holiday
September	-	-	-	-	15 (Day of the Aged), 23 (Change of Equinox)	-
October	3 (National	-	-	- 2nd Monday (Columbus Day)	Second Monday (Sports Day)	First Monday (Labor Day)
November	-	-	-	11 (Veterans Day), Fourth Thursday (Thanksgiving)	3 (National Culture), 23 (Labour Day)	-
December	24, 25, 26 (Christmas), 31 (New Year's Eve)		25 (Christmas) 26 (Boxing Day)	December 25 (Christmas)	-	December 23 (Emperor's Day), December 31 (New Year)

The forex market is an international currency market that operates around the clock. Trading operations are conducted 24 hours 5 days a week. Days off - Saturday, Sunday, as well as public holidays.

Banks of those countries in which holidays are celebrated do not participate in the auction. These days, you should be very careful when making trades. Market participants become much smaller and the likelihood of sharp changes in the exchange rate increases due to the execution of one or more big banks other countries of client applications and orders.

To effectively use your time and trade profitably, a trader must know the opening hours of banks different countries(time of trading sessions).

Forex Market Opening

The currency market opens on Monday at 1:00 am (Moscow time) and continues to work until 1:00 am Saturday. You also need to take into account the work schedule of the brokerage firms through which you trade. It may differ slightly from each other. See a list of reliable, trusted brokers here.

Since there are many time zones on our planet, the time of trading sessions differs depending on the location of different countries.

Opening and closing times of trading sessions in the Forex currency market (Moscow time)

At the time of opening on Monday night, strong movements of currencies are very often formed and there is an opportunity to make good money within a few hours.

• Pacific session.

This session is the calmest in the forex market. It is very rare to see significant price movements at this time.

• Asian session.

This session is characterized by the fact that there are the most active deals on currency pairs in which the Japanese yen is present: USDJPY, EURJPY, AUDJPY, GBPJPY, as well as AUDUSD. Exchange rate fluctuations during the Asian session are most often insignificant compared to the European and American ones. However, there are days when the main strong movement of currency pairs falls on this session. This is often due to the intervention central bank Japan.

• European session.

At 9:00 (Moscow time) they open currency exchanges in Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris. But really strong movements of major currencies against the dollar most often begin after the opening of the London Stock Exchange at 10:00. This continues, as a rule, for several hours, after which the market activity decreases slightly and a correction occurs in relation to the previous movement of currency pairs.

• American session.

The situation on the market revives by the opening of the stock exchange in New York at 16 o'clock, when the Americans join the trade, and European dealers also return after lunch. In terms of strength, the banks of America and Europe are approximately equal. Therefore, fluctuations in the exchange rate most often do not go beyond fluctuations in the European session, and currency dealers are waiting for the opening of the New York Stock Exchange in order to get latest news and data on the possible change in the exchange rate.

After closing European exchanges at 18:00 (Moscow time), American banks are left alone and are able to aggressively change exchange rates against the dollar.

The time and features of trading sessions should be taken into account in order to find the optimal entry points to the market. Quite often, at the change of sessions, the market reverses and it becomes possible to open positions that give a good profit.