Holiday Trading Hours

Exchanges and liquidity providers close or shorten sessions around public holidays. When the underlying market pauses, trading on the related instruments pauses or closes early too.

No. A holiday usually affects one region at a time — a US holiday changes US equities and indices while forex and other markets keep trading their normal sessions. Check the table above for the exact instruments affected.

We publish adjusted hours as soon as exchanges confirm them, typically one to two weeks before the holiday. Schedules can still change on short notice, so re-check close to the date.

They can. Extended closures may shift when rollovers are applied or accumulate additional days of financing. See the Financing Fees page for how rollovers work during holidays.

In MT5, open the symbol's specification to view its full session schedule. The times shown in the platform are always the final word for order execution.