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Session Management

Trading sessions can more or less be distilled down to trading hours or times when traders will trade.

Trading Hours​

Stock market times​

  • Pre-Market 04:00 EST to 9:30 EST
  • Market 9:30 EST to 16:00 EST
  • After Market 16:00 EST to 20:00 EST
  • Extended Market 20:00 EST to 04:00 EST (24x5 market hours)

Forex market times​

  • Sydney 17:00 EST to 02:00 EST
  • Tokyo 19:00 EST to 04:00 EST
  • London 03:00 EST to 00:00 EST
  • New York 08:00 EST to 17:00 EST

Crypto market times​

  • 24 hour market, use UTC days

Time Tracking​

For session management, applications should calculate sessions on-demand to reduce query times. Current session data should be streamed to NATS.