FP Markets, Market Hour changes as Summer Time ends in Australia, Europe and US.

Daylight Savings Session Times.

Starting from this Sunday, October 7th, 2018, Australia starts their Daylight Savings Time, Europe will exit Daylight savings on October 28th,2018 followed by the US on November 4th, 2018.

Due to the US Daylight Savings time change, our MT4/5 servers will have their clocks wound back to GMT+2.

The result of this will mean the session times for certain symbols will change in the MT4/5 Marketwatch.

Please follow the below links to see the full breakdown:

How does this affect my MT4/5 trading?

Once the platform time is GMT+2, the daily End Of Day (Rollover) will occur at 9:00am AEDT.

All Forex pricing will start on Monday at 9.00am AEDT (New York Sunday 5.00pm) Morning and close 9.00am AEDT Saturday (New York Friday 5.00pm) Morning to coincide with this change.

Changes to your Expert Adviser?

If you use an Expert Adviser you will most likely need to change your offset setting from GMT+3 to GMT+2. Make sure to do this before the market opens on Monday morning.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch.