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Trading Hours Schedule for Christmas and New Year 2021

The FXOpen Team

Dear Traders,

Please see below the trading hours schedule for the Christmas and New Year period from 24th December to 28th December and 31st December to 4thJanuary 2021.

Thursday, 24th December 2020

·  Forex – normal trading hours

·  Metals– trading ends at 20:45 (GMT+2)

·  Oil and Gas– trading ends at 20:30 (GMT+2)

·  Indices:

o    Australia 200 – trading ends at 05:30 (GMT+2)

o    Europe 50 – trading closed

o    France 40 – trading ends at 15:30 (GMT+2)

o    Germany 30 – trading closed

o    Hong Kong 50 – 03:15 – 06:00 (GMT+2)

o    Japan 225 – trading ends at 20:15 (GMT+2)

o    UK 100 – trading ends at 15:00 (GMT+2)

o    US SPX 500 (Mini) – trading ends at 20:15 (GMT+2)

o    US Tech 100 (Mini)  – trading ends at 20:15 (GMT+2)

o    Wall Street 30 (Mini)  – trading ends at 20:15 (GMT+2)

· Stock CFDs – normal trading hours


Friday 25th December 2020
Only Crypto CFDs will be traded. All other markets are closed.

Monday 28th December 2020

·  Forex – normal trading hours

·  Metals– normal trading hours

·  Oil and Gas– normal trading hours

·  Indices:

o    Australia 200 – trading closed

o    Europe 50 – normal trading hours

o    France 40 – normal trading hours

o    Germany 30 – normal trading hours

o    Hong Kong 50 – trading ends at 20:45 (GMT +2)

o    Japan 225 – normal trading hours

o    UK 100 – trading closed

o    US SPX 500 (Mini) – normal trading hours

o    US Tech 100 (Mini) – normal trading hours

o    Wall Street 30 (Mini)  – normal trading hours

· Stock CFDs – normal trading hours


Thursday, December 31st, 2020

·  Forex – normal trading hours

·  Metals – normal trading hours

·  Oil (WTI) and Gas – normal trading hours

·  Oil (Brent) – trading ends at 21:45 (GMT+2)

·  Indices:

o    Australia 200 – trading ends at 05:30 (GMT+2)

o    Europe 50 – trading closed

o    France 40 – trading ends at 15:00 (GMT+2)

o    Germany 30 – trading closed

o    Hong Kong 50 – 03:15 – 06:00 (GMT+2)

o    Japan 225 – normal trading hours

o    UK 100 – trading ends at 15:00 (GMT+2)

o    US SPX 500 (Mini) – normal trading hours

o    US Tech 100 (Mini) – normal trading hours

o    Wall Street 30 (Mini) – normal trading hours


Friday, January 1st, 2021

Only Crypto will be traded. All other markets are closed.


Monday, January 4th, 2021

·  Forex – normal trading hours

·  Metals– normal trading hours

·  Oil and Gas– normal trading hours

·  Indices:

o    Australia 200 – normal trading hours

o    Europe 50 – normal trading hours

o    France 40 – normal trading hours

o    Germany 30 – normal trading hours

o    Hong Kong 50 – 03:15 – 20:45 (GMT+2)

o    Japan 225 – normal trading hours

o    UK 100 – normal trading hours

o    US SPX 500 (Mini) – normal trading hours

o    US Tech 100 (Mini) – normal trading hours

o    Wall Street 30 (Mini)  – normal trading hours

· Stock CFDs – normal trading hours

Customer Support will close at 4pm on Thursday 24th December and re-open on Monday 28th December at 9am (Eastern European Time) for the Christmas period and close 4pm on Thursday 31st December and re-open on Monday 4th January at 9am (Eastern European Time).

For all urgent trading queries for live account holders, please call +357 25024000.  For non urgent matters, please email [email protected].

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