Session filters: which hours does your system actually trade?
A session filter restricts entries to hours where your setup has a proven edge — often London and the New York overlap. It's one of the simplest performance upgrades in forex and one of the least used.
What's yours?
- the hours you trade and the hours you forbid
- how you discovered the winning window
- the sessions you tested and dropped
The sessions guide provides the hour map.
Background: Forex market hours: the Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York sessions
Currencies trade around the clock on weekdays, but not with the same liquidity. Session times in UTC, the overlaps that matter and the daylight-saving trap.
What time does the forex market open on Sunday?
Most brokers open at 5 p.m. New York time on Sunday, which is 21:00 UTC in summer and 22:00 UTC in winter.
What is the best time to trade forex?
Liquidity is usually highest during the London–New York overlap, roughly 12:00 to 16:00 UTC in the northern summer, when spreads on major pairs tend to be tightest. Whether that suits you depends on the pairs you trade and your strategy.
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