You can usually trade all day from Monday till Friday depend on your broker. But the prices are moving when other traders are trading (not sleeping).

 

 Forex market hours

New York opens 8:00 am to 5:00 pm EST

Tokyo opens 7:00 pm to 4:00 am EST

Sydney opens 5:00 pm to 2:00 am EST

London opens 3:00 am to 12:00 noon EST

 

Forex market hours best performance

There are hours when market sessions are overlapped:

 

New York and London — 8:00 am — 12:00 noon EST

EUR/USD , GBP/USD

 

Sydney and Tokyo — 7:00 pm — 2:00 am EST

AUD/JPY

 

London and Tokyo — 3:00 am — 4:00am EST

GBP/JPY

 

At those overlapping trading hours you'll find the highest volume of trades (bigger rate of change) and therefore more chances to win in the foreign currency exchange market. It's very interesting to change automated strategy for trading only at overlapping sessions. 

 

Enjoy the trading !