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.

Session filters: which hours does your system actually trade? — trading sessions clock diagram
The four forex trading sessions across a 24-hour day

What's yours?

  • the hours you trade and the hours you forbid
  • how you discovered the winning window
  • the sessions you tested and dropped
Session filters: which hours does your system actually trade? — bid-ask spread diagram
The bid-ask spread on a currency pair

The sessions guide provides the hour map.

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