Holiday strategy…focus on the market overlap hours

During the holiday season you should focus your market attention to only the market overlap hours.  Currency trading activity is always the heaviest during the market overlaps and these time frames become even more important at this time of year  During market overlaps the pairs usually make their most volatile moves and trade with the greatest volume.  Until approximately the second week of the new year the market activity will be spotty, with bursts of volatility and long quiet periods.  Focusing on the market overlaps will place you in a position be available during the better trading times and not wasting time and effort on trades when the markets are not moving.  This is actually good advice at all times, but becomes a real necessity during the Holidays. 

Tokyo and Sydney Market Overlap: 6:00pm to 12:00am EST

London and Frankfurt Market Overlap: 3:00am to 10:00am EST

New York and London Market Overlap: 8:00am to 11:00am EST

3 Markets – London, New York and Frankfurt All Overlap: 8:00am to 10:00am EST

 

To help you plan your trade times properly we are providing the TradingFX Trade Room schedule for this week.