Forex Market Hours

The forex market can be broken up into four major trading sessions: 

• Sydney session
• Tokyo session
• London session
• New York session

Traders often focus on one of the trading periods, rather than attempt to trade the markets 24 hours per day.

Since New Zealand is a major financial center, the forex markets open there on Monday morning, while it is still Sunday in most of the world (it's still called Sydney Session).

Other than the weekends, there are just two public holidays when the entire forex market is closed, Christmas and New Year’s Day.