Exness Trading Hours — When the Market Is Open and the Order Is Not — Nigeria
Four sources answer four different versions of the same complaint. Naming the source that holds the fact is quicker than naming the cause.
Open Exness Account →An order that will not go through while the market looks open has more than one possible owner of the answer, and they do not overlap. The specification of an instrument states when that instrument is scheduled to be quoted. The record on an account states what that account may do. The program states what the version in use supports. The connection states whether anything is arriving at all. The useful move is to name the source that holds the fact, rather than to guess at the cause.
How to read this
A trading hour is attractive when the market moves a lot relative to what entering costs. The last column divides the average hourly movement by the average spread in that hour — more movement per pip of spread means the hour is cheaper to trade relative to its opportunity, before strategy and news are considered.
EUR/USD hour by hour (measured)
| Hour (server) | Avg spread (pips) | Avg movement (pips) | Movement per pip of spread |
|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 0.8 | 14.9 | 19× |
| 01:00 | 0.8 | 17.1 | 21× |
| 02:00 | 0.8 | 11 | 14× |
| 03:00 | 0.8 | 9.8 | 12× |
| 04:00 | 0.8 | 9.3 | 12× |
| 05:00 | 0.8 | 8.3 | 10× |
| 06:00 | 0.8 | 10 | 12× |
| 07:00 | 0.8 | 13.1 | 16× |
| 08:00 | 0.8 | 15.3 | 19× |
| 09:00 | 0.8 | 14.1 | 18× |
| 10:00 | 0.8 | 11.5 | 14× |
| 11:00 | 0.8 | 10 | 12× |
| 12:00 | 0.8 | 14.2 | 18× |
| 13:00 | 0.8 | 20.3 | 25× |
| 14:00 | 0.8 | 18.3 | 23× |
| 15:00 | 0.8 | 16.1 | 20× |
| 16:00 | 0.8 | 12.4 | 16× |
| 17:00 | 0.8 | 10 | 12× |
| 18:00 | 0.8 | 16.1 | 20× |
| 19:00 | 0.8 | 8.8 | 11× |
| 20:00 | 0.8 | 12.3 | 15× |
| 21:00 | 2.276 | 5.2 | 2× |
| 22:00 | 0.959 | 7.3 | 8× |
| 23:00 | 0.804 | 9.7 | 12× |
Spread = average of all quotes captured in that hour over the last 24h; movement = average high–low of that hour over the last 7 sessions. Hours are MT5 server time.
All instruments — where spreads tighten and widen
| Instrument | Tightest avg spread | Widest avg spread | Biggest hourly movement | Movement-per-cost peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EUR/USD | 0.8 at 07:00 | 2.276 at 21:00 | 20.3 at 13:00 | 13:00 |
| GBP/USD | 1 at 07:00 | 3.611 at 21:00 | 23.5 at 13:00 | 13:00 |
| USD/JPY | 1 at 07:00 | 5.999 at 21:00 | 29.3 at 01:00 | 01:00 |
| AUD/USD | 0.9 at 07:00 | 3.265 at 21:00 | 13.5 at 14:00 | 14:00 |
| USD/CAD | 1.4 at 08:00 | 3.119 at 21:00 | 21.5 at 13:00 | 13:00 |
| USD/CHF | 1.3 at 07:00 | 1.923 at 21:00 | 18.3 at 01:00 | 01:00 |
| NZD/USD | 1.4 at 07:00 | 4.553 at 21:00 | 25.4 at 01:00 | 01:00 |
| EUR/GBP | 1.3 at 07:00 | 2.522 at 22:00 | 10.1 at 15:00 | 15:00 |
| EUR/JPY | 1.6 at 07:00 | 7.24 at 21:00 | 35.1 at 14:00 | 14:00 |
| GBP/JPY | 2 at 07:00 | 16.761 at 21:00 | 39.1 at 14:00 | 14:00 |
| AUD/JPY | 1.1 at 07:00 | 6.122 at 21:00 | 30.2 at 01:00 | 01:00 |
| XAU/USD (Gold) | 24 at 07:00 | 24.1 at 22:00 | 3001.1 at 13:00 | 13:00 |
| XAG/USD (Silver) | 2.5 at 07:00 | 2.5 at 07:00 | 84.8 at 13:00 | 13:00 |
| US Oil (WTI) | 1.4 at 07:00 | 1.4 at 07:00 | 164.8 at 13:00 | 13:00 |
| UK Oil (Brent) | 1.7 at 10:00 | 1.744 at 13:00 | 175.1 at 13:00 | 13:00 |
| BTC/USD | 640 at 07:00 | 640 at 07:00 | 70742.9 at 20:00 | 20:00 |
| ETH/USD | 100 at 07:00 | 100 at 07:00 | 2906.9 at 20:00 | 20:00 |
| US500 (S&P 500) | 40 at 07:00 | 48.678 at 22:00 | 3035.9 at 19:00 | 19:00 |
| US30 (Dow) | 10 at 14:00 | 13.426 at 22:00 | 2303.3 at 13:00 | 14:00 |
| USTEC (Nasdaq 100) | 112 at 07:00 | 118.611 at 22:00 | 21766 at 20:00 | 20:00 |
| DE30 (DAX) | 7 at 07:00 | 66.778 at 23:00 | 1451.4 at 08:00 | 08:00 |
| JP225 (Nikkei 225) | 31 at 07:00 | 33.962 at 22:00 | 6741.9 at 00:00 | 00:00 |
| UK100 (FTSE 100) | 98 at 07:00 | 871.808 at 23:00 | 4877.4 at 08:00 | 08:00 |
Spread in pips (points for non-FX). ‘Movement-per-cost peak’ is the hour with the most movement per pip of spread.
The rollover hour
In this sample the widest EUR/USD hour was 21:00 server time, where the average spread ran about 3× the typical hour. This is the daily rollover window — swaps are applied, liquidity providers reset, and quotes briefly widen. Positions held with tight stop-losses through this hour can be stopped out by the spread alone. The most active hours by tick count were 00:00, 01:00, 02:00, 12:00.
How this was measured
- Spread by hour: every captured quote on Exness's own MT5 feed, bucketed by server hour (last 24h).
- Movement by hour: average H1 candle range over the last 7 sessions, from the same feed.
- The ratio compares movement to entry cost only — it is not a prediction of direction.
- Figures refresh on a schedule and vary day to day.
Measured in-terminal on Exness’s own MetaTrader 5 pricing feed and symbol specifications, refreshed on a schedule. All figures are indicative and change with market conditions.
Open Exness Account →Why the wrong source still replies
A source that does not hold the fact does not fall silent. It answers correctly about the part it covers and says nothing about the part that was asked, and that combination reads like a resolution. This is the main way a question stays open while looking closed.
The check is one sentence long: could this source have seen the thing being asked about? A specification never sees an account, a record never sees a schedule, and neither of them sees a connection. When the answer to that sentence is no, the reply that arrived is about something else.
What each source can state, and what it cannot
| The source | What it can state | What it cannot state |
|---|---|---|
| The specification of the instrument | When that instrument is scheduled to be quoted, and on which calendar | Anything about one particular account |
| The record attached to the account | What that account may trade, and in what size | Anything about the schedule itself |
| The program in use | What the installed version supports | Why a quote is absent |
| The connection | Whether the terminal is receiving anything at all | Anything about the instrument or the account |
| No source at all | Nothing | Whether the same thing happens tomorrow |
Reading these five rows in order costs less than one message, and it names the addressee before anything is written.