Though it is said that forex market runs for 24 hours a day and 5 days a week, it is important for traders to understand the ebb and flow of the market so that they can time their trades correctly.

Traders have found the forex market hours clock to be a tough one to understand as they live in different regions of the world and also due to the fact that the liquidity in the markets flows different during the different sessions of the market.

Now that we have set the base timezone as GMT, we move on to understand the available forex market sessions. There are 4 market sessions based on timings and these are the Sydney session, the Tokyo session, the London session and the New York Session. The markets have been democratic is splitting these sessions across continents with one session each in Australia, Asia, Europe and the United States.