The foreign exchange market is open 24-hours a day, with the exception of weekends. As one financial centre closes, another one opens. Access the deepest pockets of liquidity when sessions overlap. These global business handoffs allow the foreign exchange market (FOREX-FX) to remain open 24 hours per weekday. However, trading volumes fluctuate and are not equal across all sessions. This map applies data that indicate that Forex trading sessions are vary either 8am to 4pm, or 9am to 5pm local time and anything between. Also take notice that in between each forex trading session, there is a period of time where two sessions are open at the same time. During the summer, from 3:00-4:00 AM ET, for example, the Tokyo session and London session overlap, and during both summer and winter from 8:00 AM-12:00 PM ET,