What are the Tokyo and/or Asian Market Times (Locally) ?

Hi,

I am a bit confused, all I can find searching the internet are times converted to EST, GMT, or something else. However, since they do not include the date of conversion, I am not entirely convinced even the "conversion tools" all convert them properly.

So... could someone who knows any of the following, please explain to me what the times are for these Market in the Market's Local Time?

Tokyo

1. open
2. close

also, I heard that Tokyo takes a lunch break so it is really 2 sessions. Therefore I would like to know the following as well:

 

1. start of 1st Tokyo Session
2. end of 1st Tokyo Session (to go to lunch)
3. start of 2nd Tokyo Session (return from lunch)
4. end of 2nd Tokyo Sesion

one major confusing aspect for me was that the end of Tokyo 2nd session that I was given was a few hours off from the close I see on Oanda.

I am thinking also that perhaps Tokyo and other Asia markets do not close at the same time and some people just write the "end of Tokyo" as being end of Asia after Tokyo has gone home? anyhow that is just a theory, I'm not sure if it is correct.

So I'm looking also for the following

 

1. Singapore Start / Close
2. Hong Kong Start / Close
3. Sydney Start/Close wouldn't hurt either

note: by Close I mean the time the markets close, not the start of the last hour of trading.

so if you know any of these, let me know... thx

Here's one piece to the puzzle. It shows Tokyo local market hours including the lunch break. This also confirms another site I saw which says that Tokyo opens trading at 9:00 AM local while other countries generally open at 8:00 AM local.

http://stockmarketusa.blogspot.com/2...ing-times.html


Here's the thing though. These are STOCK market times. There is not a centralized currency market, because individual banks trade on the interbank market and are free to set their own times. One bank may open its trading desk at 7:30 I suppose while another lazier one opens at 8:45 or whatever. So there's no such thing as "local market hours" in FOREX except in a very general sense.

thanks for the info there... I got Sydney open as 7AM Sydney Time, I think from Oanda.. this can't be right, can it? Or does the sun come up really really early down there?

http://www.2008.worldmarkethours.com/Stock/index.htm

They will show recess time as well as closing time.

ah, I saw that site before but never noticed the "recesss" thing... now it is all saying recess right now... cool )

the problem here is there are no set hours for the forex market. its decentralized, so there is no authority figure to set the hours. i can remember when FF was making the "market clock" on the homepage everyone was wondering what the official hours were. i dont it was every figured out either LOL. you can go by the stock market hours of each country (tokyo can be found here), but if you do that i believe there will be a few hour time gap each day after NY closes, and as we all know there is no daily gap in forex.

another thing is that during the "tokyo session" its not just japanese traders in the interbank, so things like lunch break dont have the same sort of effect they do in the stock market.

this is an interesting topic, i hope we can shed some light on the subject!

question: is the market noticebly quieter often during japanese stock market lunch?

Ok, before we talk about the friggin japanese, does anyone have any idea what "lunch" means in terms of activity for london and new york, first of all? I have always seen activity at no particular times within each session, sometimes even on closing minutes and even in good old sydney's session (which usually a joking matter). Japan should be a little better to attack as a puzzle, since it's all in one main time zone (right?), whereas there are a couple of hours between chicago and new york, not to mention the hedge funds working out of cali.

So the question is: has anyone seen statistical evidence of low volume during a particular time of day in ANY forex session? This can save us all some screen time. I check my charts haphazardly almost

while I am interested in any answers to your questions as well, just wanted to re-iterate that my lunch question is aimed squarely only at Tokyo Lunch. I was told that it is quieter because Japanese take their lunch and then come back for a 2nd session of trading Forex. So I'm curious to verify this behaviour... as nothing is absolute, I'm just asking if one can detect that usually market is quieter during this time than during the preceeding few hours or the subsequent few hours. Of course some days are more active, but also on those days, is this Lunch period still quieter?

i havent noticed any patterns around lunch, and ive been aware of the break because i traded nikkei futures occasionally. it makes sense too, japanese traders probably only make up less than a 3rd of liquidity in the tokyo session. sorry i dont have any hard evidence to give ya LOL but this should be fairly easy to backtest, just average out the ATR.

ok, cool... was just really curious about that...

mind if i ask why? sounds like you are cookin something up

well, was just making a simple application to keep track of market times for me... and I didn't know what to put during Asia, so I needed to clarify a few things. that's all.. nothing much... and during the process I became curious as to if lunch time was noticeably different.

Thanx for the link
it was very usefull

Hmm recess time only existed on Stock Market hours but doesn't exist in ForEx Market Hours O_o

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