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Low Liquidity on Commodities and Indices on January 18

The FXOpen Team

Dear Trader, Due to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the USA on January 18, 2016 you may experience low liquidity in several trading instruments such as commodities and indices.   Currency pairs: normal trading hours.  Commodities:

  • Gold - low liquidity after 20:00 GMT+2
  • Silver - low liquidity after 20:00 GMT+2
  • UK Brent - normal trading hours
  • US Crude - low liquidity after 19:45 GMT+2
  • US Natural Gas - low liquidity after 19:45GMT+2.

Indices:

  • Australia 200 - normal trading hours
  • Europe 50 - normal trading hours
  • France 40 - normal trading hours
  • Germany 30 Germany 30 (Mini) - normal trading hours
  • Japan 225 - low liquidity after 20:00 GMT+2
  • UK 100 - normal trading hours
  • US SPX 500 US SPX 500 (Mini) - low liquidity after 20:00 GMT+2
  • US Tech 100 US Tech 100 (Mini) - low liquidity after 20:00 GMT+2
  • Wall Street 30 Wall Street 30 (Mini) - low liquidity after 20:00 GMT+2.

Please ensure that you take this into consideration especially if you have open positions during these times.

Kind regards,  The FXopen UK Team

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