The four sessions in your own clock, with the overlaps marked. Times read each city's real local time, so daylight saving is already handled - no need to work out whether London moved this month.
Gold trades around the clock, but the character of the move changes completely depending on who is at the desk.
Thin and slow. Ranges are narrow, the day's high and low are rarely set here, and breakouts fail more often than they run. Useful mainly for marking the range that London later takes out.
Where most of the day's range gets built. The first hour frequently sweeps the Asian high or low before the real direction appears - a pattern worth knowing before you chase the first move.
The busiest window of the day: tightest spreads, deepest liquidity, and almost every US release. Also where a quiet position can be turned over in minutes, so size belongs here more than anywhere else.
Liquidity drains as European desks close. Trends often drift or retrace rather than extend, and spreads widen into the daily rollover. Usually a management window, not an entry window.
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