FX Sessions & What Moves Major Pairs
Currencies trade around the clock, but liquidity and volatility move with the sun — and each major pair dances to its own fundamental driver.
Stocks have an opening bell and a closing bell. Foreign exchange does not — it runs continuously from Sunday evening to Friday evening, with no single exchange and trading desks handing the book around the planet as each financial centre wakes up. That "follow the sun" structure means the same pair can be sleepy in one hour and explosive in the next, purely because of who is at their desk. And each major pair has its own fundamental driver underneath the intraday noise. Knowing both — when a pair moves and what moves it — is the market-structure literacy that turns random-looking charts into something you can plan around.
The three sessions
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