{"id":278624,"date":"2022-01-07T11:15:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T11:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zfx.com\/?post_type=help_center&#038;p=278624"},"modified":"2022-11-18T12:37:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T12:37:51","slug":"at-what-times-can-i-trade","status":"publish","type":"help_center","link":"https:\/\/www.zfx.com\/en-mena\/help-center\/at-what-times-can-i-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"At what times can I trade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The forex market (forex) operates 24 hours per day, 5 and half days per week. But at ZFX, we offer several asset classes. Each have different trading sessions, and vary according to time zone.<\/p>\n<p>To know exactly when a product is available for trading, you can view contract specifications on the ZFX website or check from within the trading platform.<\/p>\n<h2>1 &#8211; Forex products<\/h2>\n<p>The forex market opens on Monday at 08:00 in Sydney (22:00 GMT) and closes on Friday at 17:00 in New York (21:00 GMT). On the ZFX MT4 platform, we begin forex trading sessions at 22:05 GMT and finish them at 20:55 GMT, allowing a 10-minute gap between trading days.<\/p>\n<h2>2 &#8211; Commodities products<\/h2>\n<p>Most commodities, especially the highly liquid ones, are typically traded almost 24-hours per day, often with a one-hour break between trading days.<\/p>\n<h2>3 &#8211; Indices products<\/h2>\n<p>We offer indices from around the world, and the trading sessions vary widely. Some highly liquid indices are tradable almost 24-hours per day, some have long breaks, and others are only available for a few hours each day.<\/p>\n<h2>4 &#8211; Shares<\/h2>\n<p>We offer trading on shares from US-listed companies. The times these products are available are based on when the underlying stock exchanges are operating. The NYSE and NASDAQ operate between 09:30 and 16:00 New York time on Monday to Friday, excluding US bank holidays.<\/p>\n<h2>How to check trading sessions in MT4<\/h2>\n<p>You can check the trading times of various products from inside the trading platform. From the Market Watch section MT4, located on the left side of the interface, right-click on the product and select \u201cSpecification\u201d in the context menu to view the trading times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forex market (forex) operates 24 hours per day, 5 and half days per week. But at ZFX, we offer several asset classes. Each have different trading sessions, and vary according to time zone. To know exactly when a product is available for trading, you can view contract specifications on the ZFX website or check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"template":"","help_center_categories":[24052],"help_center_tags":[],"class_list":["post-278624","help_center","type-help_center","status-publish","hentry","help_center_categories-faq-en-mena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zfx.com\/en-mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/help_center\/278624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zfx.com\/en-mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/help_center"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zfx.com\/en-mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/help_center"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zfx.com\/en-mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zfx.com\/en-mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/help_center\/278624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zfx.com\/en-mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"help_center_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zfx.com\/en-mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/help_center_categories?post=278624"},{"taxonomy":"help_center_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zfx.com\/en-mena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/help_center_tags?post=278624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}