However, the markets in each country generally open at 8:00 AM and close at 4:00 PM in the time zone of the respective market. Holidays not included.
If you need to know the exact times that the markets open and close, you have to take time zones into consideration. It is very simple when expressed in UTC. This is Universal Coordinated Time, formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time – GMT.
| Market | Sydney | Tokyo | Hong Kong | Moscow | Frankfurt | London | New York | Chicago | LA |
| Time Zone | AEST | JST | WST | EET | WET | UTC/GMT | EST | CST | PST |
Asian Open |
11:00 | 09:00 | 08:00 | 03:00 | 01:00 | 00:00 | 19:00 | 18:00 | 16:00 |
In GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
In EST (Eastern Standard Time (North America)
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