The forex markets on TV claim 24 hour activity, they are lairs, like many brokers they stretch the truth to make things sound good or easy. Your time zone plays a major role in your trading strategy. If you reside in the U.S. you'll find the best times to trade are when you are asleep, scary but I'll show you how to combat that issue in time.
Forex markets run from Sunday 5 PM till Friday 5 PM EST.
This gives you much of the weekend to do other things like prepare for the following week of trading, just kidding... but not really. You'll need to put forth a lot of time and energy into learning the basics, I promise afterward you can almost run on autopilot.
If you have a regular 9 to 5 (and I hope you do if you need money today) then you'll need to incorporate how to adjust your habits & schedule to fit market activities. Unless you plan on not sleeping you'll need to succumb to the market's needs. Don't try to force the market to work on your time, you'll lose and lose bad! Patience, it'll help relieve stress, when you first start off staring at a screen for hours on end you'll need every once of it. Consider having quite a bit of growing pains.
The biggest reason for adhering to the market's schedule is liquidity which is the forex version of stock market volume, but you can't really measure volume in forex, that's a topic for much later.
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