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Hours around the world

Tokyo, London, New York — three sessions, thin overlap, local holidays. A close is a , not a grade of a country. is looking, not racing a clock. Look. Do not buy.

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  • A session is a local clock, not a global siren
  • Overlap is a fact about who is awake, not an edge we sell
  • A holiday is a calendar, not a trick

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Three sessions, not one siren

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Three sessions, not one siren

People talk as if “the market” were one bell. It is not. Tokyo’s ordinary cash session is a local morning and afternoon with a lunch pause in the usual classroom telling. London’s ordinary cash session sits in the European morning through afternoon. New York’s regular hours are 9:30 to 16:00 Eastern in the usual telling. Those are three clocks. in one is not last in the others.

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People talk as if “the market” were one bell. It is not. Tokyo’s ordinary cash session is a local morning and afternoon with a lunch pause in the usual classroom telling. London’s ordinary cash session sits in the European morning through afternoon. New York’s regular hours are 9:30 to 16:00 Eastern in the usual telling. Those are three clocks. in one is not last in the others.

A lunch break in Tokyo is a real pause. Treating it as a U.S. lunch is how you invent a hole. A half-day in London is a calendar, not a trick we will sell.

After-hours in one country is another with different people and a thinner . We delay last on purpose so you look, not so you race a or a night desk.

Human: the close gets a lot of poetry. Poetry is allowed. Poetry is not a . Look. Do not buy. Not a broker. Not tax advice. Not an FX desk. A missing is a gap, not a ranking.

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