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How Daylight Savings time changes affect Forex trading hours?
- US Daylight Savings time change
- How does this affect my MT4/5 trading?
- Changes to your Expert Advisor?
US Daylight Savings time change
Starting from Sunday, October 6th, 2019, Australia starts their Daylight Savings Time, Europe will exit Daylight savings on October 27th,2019 followed by the US on November 3rd, 2019.
Due to the US Daylight Savings time change, MT4/5 servers will have their clocks wound back to GMT+2.
The result of this will mean the session times for certain symbols will change in the MT4/5 Marketwatch.
Please follow the below links to see the full breakdown:
How does this affect my MT4/5 trading?
On the 3rd of November, 2019 the platform time will be changed to GMT+2, and the daily End Of Day (Rollover) will occur at 9:00am AEDT.
All Forex pricing will start on Monday at 9.00am AEDT (New York Sunday 5.00pm) Morning and close 9.00am AEDT Saturday (New York Friday 5.00pm) Morning to coincide with this change.
Australian Daylight Savings – Monday 7th Oct 2019
| Symbol | Hours | Break |
|---|---|---|
| AUS200 | 1:50 – 23:00 | 8:30 – 9:10, 23:00 – 1:50 |
Europe Daylight Savings – Monday 29th Oct 2019
| Symbol | Hours | Break |
|---|---|---|
| GER30 | 03:15 – 24:00 | 24:00 – 03:15 |
| EURO50 | 03:15 – 24:00 | 24:00 – 03:15 |
| UK100 | 04:00 – 24:00 | 24:00 – 04:00 |
| FRA40 | 10:00 – 24:00 | 24:00 – 10:00 |
US Daylight Savings – Monday 4th November 2019
| Symbol | Hours | Break |
|---|---|---|
| AUS200 | 00:50 – 23:00 | 7:30 – 8:10, 23:00 – 00:50 |
| GER30 | 02:15 – 23:00 | 23:00 – 02:15 |
| EURO50 | 02:15-23:00 | 23:00 – 02:15 |
| UK100 | 03:00 – 23:00 | 23:00 – 03:00 |
| FRA40 | 9:00 – 23:00 | 23:00 – 9:00 |
| SING30 | 02:30 – 22:45 | 11:10 – 11:40, 22:45 – 02:30 |
| HK50 | 03:15 – 21:00 | 06:00 – 07:00, 10:30 – 11:15, 21:00 – 03:15 |
| CHINA50 | 03:00 – 22:45 | 10:30 – 11:00, 22:45 – 03:00 |
| XBRUSD | 03:00 – 24:00 | 24:00 – 03:00 |
Changes to your Expert Advisor?
If you use an Expert Advisor you will most likely need to change your offset setting from GMT+3 to GMT+2.
Make sure to do this before the market opens on Monday morning.
If you have any questions, please contact your broker’s support team.
