Trading hours

[Teresa_FX1]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

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[RokokGudangGaram]

I haven't really noticed that, maybe a lot of traders that is active in crypto gambling are awake at that time? I am curious as well if at these times is much better to trade rather than some other time. Can I ask which market have you observed that?

[Teresa_FX1]

I trade crypto but I observed many times (besides major news) that trading after US markets are open is more active, BTC price even reacting on pre-market conditions right before it opens. Usually I'm watching SP500 index. So, possibly it's not really retail traders but institutions like hedge-funds affect the price during that time.

I haven't really noticed that, maybe a lot of traders that is active in crypto gambling are awake at that time? I am curious as well if at these times is much better to trade rather than some other time. Can I ask which market have you observed that?

[batang_bitcoin]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

Keep on observing those time differences because you can use it as an advantage and be part of your strategy when you trade. I don't have that observation for the differences of time but with the correlation of the bitcoin market to stocks, there were several times that it's been said that they have somehow relation. But you need to remember that during trading hours of crypto, there's no exact detail that will prove that it's interconnected to any market and even it is trading hours.

[New.in.trading]

I would say this is because, on US open, there comes a lot of volume into the markets, as hedgefunds and other big players place their positions. Not only in BTC USD but also across the USD in general. A Trade on BTC USD is actually 2 trades. If you buy BTC, you are selling USD at the same time. So a weak USD can push the BTC without BTC doing anything. And a weak USD can come from a lot of things... So I believe one should not think that there is a Crypto market and then there is a separate  Forex market. Its 2 Markets with touching points. Obviously, the USD is the weaker part in the BTCUSD pair, but if it is very weak, this still affects BTC

[Silberman]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

This is very common on all markets, for example the price of oil and gas has a tendency to go up at the end of the year, why? Because people need more of it because the winter is coming and they need to fill their inventory, this increases demand and as such the price goes up.

Why the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies seems more volatile when the US market opens even if this market is open 24 hours per day? Because a great deal of those that are trading bitcoin are doing it from the US, and when they are sleeping then there is less action on the markets but once they wake up they begin to trade and move the price more abruptly and there is more action in general.

[palle11]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

You have picked the US open time as the favorite for you but it depends on your trading pattern. Some traders like a volatile market while for some it is a more gradual time depending on the skills you have to handle it.

[jrrsparkles]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

If you find the difference in the trading volume in the time frame then it actually will help you with making money feom it but in my opinion there is no such thing exist actually become people from all over the world are trading cryptos and we have different time zones so it not really possible to find activity change.

[Fatunad]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

Its just your own presumption that volatility does react when US stock market opens yet majority knows that theres no significant connection or correlation
between traditional investments on here with crypto space thats why its just a coincidence but hey, you wouldnt know if those are indeed affecting volatility
but actually theres no precise time for someone to trade off on where he can benefit out of those price movements.Anytime can be the best time
but there are indeed time where price isnt really that moving much.

[bittraffic]

Although we can trade at any time of the day, people just stop trading when its time to sleep. Same with forex, there is a session for time zones like NY session or Tokyo session. Half the world sleeps and half the world awakes to start trading again.  Volatility I think can't be determined which session but probably with the news coming. Today its the election that makes the prices go up to $15K.

[Eureka_07]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

Maybe one of the reason is that most traders do have much time on weekends than weekdays, obviously because most people are off from their works, giving them some oppprtunity and time to trade more, which causes higher volatility to a specific market.
The same reason why most gamblers are playing on casino on weekends.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

I would say there is no correlation. Bitcoin volatility is at times just random. I have been trying to follow how the markets behave for sometime now using price tickers or widgets while I am doing other things on my computer but every passing week or month, the pattern changes. When the market is trending either on the bullish or bearish side, the volatility can go on throughout the day with no particular hour.

When the market is moving sideways this is when it's a little easier to see the pattern of small volatile price movements but this also changes each passing weeks. Some weeks Volatility is very apparent at  0:00 AM (0:00) UTC, other days at  around 11:00 AM (11:00) UTC while sometimes at 4:00 PM (16:00) UTC. In general, it all looks random and hard to follow as the market keeps changing from trending to sideways.

[stomachgrowls]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

Its just your own presumption that volatility does react when US stock market opens yet majority knows that theres no significant connection or correlation
between traditional investments on here with crypto space thats why its just a coincidence but hey, you wouldnt know if those are indeed affecting volatility
but actually theres no precise time for someone to trade off on where he can benefit out of those price movements.Anytime can be the best time
but there are indeed time where price isnt really that moving much.

You are definitely right into those words that you had spit into your mouth when it comes to time.The market is open 24/7 unlike in forex and stocks which they do have that closed market on weekends.

Exact or specific time for you to trade? It wont really be that much of an issue or concern because movements cant really be predicted on whats time is that is volatile and what's the time it isn't.

If you can see some pattern then try to observe it and if you do believe that it does then you're free to make use of that since we have different strategies in our trading activity.

Just make it sure that it would work and do stick with it but i highly doubt that everything would really be in random because anytime can be the best time for you to make up some trades.

[Baofeng]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

During weekends, trading somehow slow down. And even though that market is open 24x7, we still have the "follow the sun" rule. You can also read this speculation thread:

[1] Monday Is the Best Day to Buy Bitcoin?
[2] Monday is a good time to buy BTC? Is that proved one more time?

[StephenJH]

I prefer to wait for the London opening because the US traders usually continue the direction from the last season. Maybe it is my personal bias after many years but the Japanese and US traders don't go against the hourly trends, generally. US open hours are messy and the traders from the US usually continue to do what the London session traders did on their session. For example, if the XRP/USD pair goes up on the London session and the US traders will continue the trend because none of both parties will go against the main trend. It is just common sense for combining the daily trend in all market sessions.

[XZERO1]

Sometimes it can be random but some other times it can be related to many other factors like when US market opens and when people in US or Asia wake up, but if you are thinking the volatility is correlated to only one factor then that's not the case.

I trade crypto but I observed many times (besides major news) that trading after US markets are open is more active, BTC price even reacting on pre-market conditions right before it opens. Usually I'm watching SP500 index. So, possibly it's not really retail traders but institutions like hedge-funds affect the price during that time.

That's because after the COVID pandemic crypto is only following SPX chart and if you look at their charts closely you can see they look almost identical to each other and if one of them moves significantly up or down the other one will follow just with a little bit of delay.

[2double0]

Because when people of a certain market area wake up, they don't start trading stocks alone but their eyes are on crypto too as crypto is also a big market now. I have seen high volatility during US open and London open, and there comes a small yet considerable bullish candle which can be traded with leverage and it can gain some percentage to your portfolio.

[Yaunfitda]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

Yes, you are correct, I also observed this kind of movement, you can also add that if US stock market closes and the Asian crypto market opens, there's also a lot of volatility. I've noticed as well that when the Asian crypto market opens, there will be a huge surge in price because obviously, Asian whales and traders are very active and you can take advantage of that time frame and situation to at least squeeze some profits if you're a day trader.

[crzy]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

Cryptomarket is different to Forex so I don’t think its correlated but maybe in some places, many traders are active in cryptomarket and since we have a different time zone, we feel like the volatility is more active when the sun rise to US and European countries but for me its the same. Tradings hours are 24/7 and many things can happen, and volatility is always high in this market.

[Smartvirus]

Trading is very much of a 24/7 market setting and the volatility within these time frames are different at certain hours of the day but then, what really makes some hours more special and good for trading are, the booming economy working hours. With Cryptos being a commodity on both the forex and exchange platforms, there is no question or doubt of volatility at certain hours. When the high economy and nations with higher awareness and involvements are asleep, your banned to have lower volatility and vise versa.

[goinmerry]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

In the stock market, there are considered busy hours, and trading activity is more active.

In crypto, there is no accurate timeframe when the trading hours are active.

That's how volatile crypto is, actions can happen anytime, 24/7, any day at any given timeframe.

[Johnyz]

Our timeline is different and I’m not that too focus on time because my focus is on the price movement regardless of the timeframe and of course, you also need to take some rest so don’t stress yourself studying how volatile the market is, you cannot monitor that seriously. Traders are more active if they see opportunity on a specific project, that’s where the battle of traders begin.

[xSkylarx]

From what I've experienced it's good to trade when US market is open. I live in asia and the pump often happens in the night where it's morning in the US. I think the reason for that is US is a progressive country and many people there know bitcoin and cryptos very well. Their country also are capable to affect the trend of bitcoin.

[mersal]

There is no best hours to trade cryptocurrencies in a day, all day you need to be awake if you want to buy/sell at the perfect time.But have to mention that trading volume and transactions counts are considerably less over the weekend compared to weekdays so you can consider not many people were actively trading on weekends but it is not going to help in any way for individuals.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Cryptomarket is different to Forex so I don’t think its correlated but maybe in some places, many traders are active in cryptomarket and since we have a different time zone, we feel like the volatility is more active when the sun rise to US and European countries but for me its the same. Tradings hours are 24/7 and many things can happen, and volatility is always high in this market.

We know it isn't correlated but that doesn't mean what the OP highlighted isn't true although he/she most have used probably not the best example to emphasis his point still the high volatility can be felt in certain hours as a result of different time zone. I remember back in the 2017 when I open my trades in the early hours of the morning around 1-2 AM in the morning as that's when the Asia money was coming into the market.

Although unlike the forex market, that iyf the cryptocurrencies is open 24 hours 7 days a week but it's certain there are some days the market is known to be more active like days the weekly candles opens while days the weekly candles close is less active as trading wait to see what the next week will be like before they open their order either to long or short the market.

[Dorodha]

Trading hours is not possible to determine the exact time of the business you have to be active in the market and analyze each of trading hours sites to determine the volatility of the market. Trading hours will usually depend on the trader trading markets are always open and trading is not possible to learn and master anything in one day. we have to try to understand its sections gradually. The exact time cannot be understood if one does not have to be very careful in buying and selling coins this can take up to a week or months during business hours.

[traderethereum]

Maybe the reason is that crypto trading waiting for what happens in the US stock market opens, so after it's open, the crypto market will move aggressive, whether it's up or down.
If you already found that there are more active markets after the US stock market opens, you can use that as your advantage to find a good time to buy and sell, so you can expect to make a profit from that.
But in crypto trading, we can trade anytime we want and don't need to wait for other markets, and if you think that the crypto market now is in good movements, you can enter the market to trade.
We can not always follow the US stock market because we have a different time to that market, so we need to adjust to find our best time to trade.
Sometimes we will get morning, daylight, or even in the night to be the best time to trade because that will depend on how do you want to trade, and not because of the other reason.

[BuNga_cute]

I also agree that the crypto market on weekends is much more active than usual, so crypto prices are more volatile on weekends.
This is a good opportunity for trading, maybe on weekends many people who usually work so have spare time to spend on trading.
So I often trade on weekends, but if you want to trade on weekdays it can be done, because the crypto market is open 24/7.

[death69]

Never care of that issue. But I think the US has some power over the crypto market. Although the centralized economy and the decentralized market are not connected, they somehow interact with each other.

Personally, I prefer to watch the volume than trading hour. The high volatile can give you a massive liquidity, but its not always good in this market. Being disciplined and sagacious are more important.

[Distinctin]

Maybe it varies from our different time zone. I've noticed also that the market is so active during the late evening in our place which makes me sometimes adopt the timezone and wake up just to trade. I often go along with the volatility because that is a big impact when you are actively trading and how you make a profit from it.

Maybe normal traders don't feel it but if you are very active in trading and spend a lot of time on computers they can certainly feel the changes and they are going to make adjustments.

[samcrypto]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

Maybe because many traders are from those country and they believe on cryptocurrency that much compare to other countries especially on my country. Let's admit that US and European countries are more supportive compare to other nation and they are more knowledgeable about trading and that is why cryptomarket are more volatile on that period. I do watch the market during my free time and I also notice this one especially when you are analyzing the market.

[stomachgrowls]

When i  do still trade in forex then there is really a specific time on where you do make some intra-trade.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/08/forex-trading-schedule-trading-times.asp#:~:text=Key%20Takeaways-,The%20forex%20market%20runs%20on%20the%20normal%20business%20hours%20of,is%20best%20for%20trading%20opportunities.

https://www.babypips.com/learn/forex/session-overlaps

I heavily agree on what had mentioned: The U.S./London markets overlap (8 a.m. to noon EST) has the heaviest volume of trading and is best for trading opportunities.


Question is, does it really apply in cryptoccurency market? The answer is no.. This isnt something centralized like those markets mentioned above.
There no market which do opens and closes and there are no windows between which country would open up their market and it do closes.

Cryptocurrency market is open 24/7 so its up to someone on when he would decide to trade but there are circumstances which it is the best spot or situation to get in
specially when the price is trying to peak out? Tending to sell or tending to buyback? those are next possible steps that you would think of.

[Fredomago]

Maybe it varies from our different time zone. I've noticed also that the market is so active during the late evening in our place which makes me sometimes adopt the timezone and wake up just to trade. I often go along with the volatility because that is a big impact when you are actively trading and how you make a profit from it.

Maybe normal traders don't feel it but if you are very active in trading and spend a lot of time on computers they can certainly feel the changes and they are going to make adjustments.

For me, it's also best to work while volatilities are more active, knowing that the chance your position will be hit is very possible.
You have to manage this well and use it as a good advantage whenever you do your trading business.

Taking note every experienced and observation that you noticed will simply guide you on how to work with your trading activities, there are many patterns better to build or create one when the trade are very active and there are lots of traders who are playing along with you.

If they are really paying attention and they are treating it as advantage, they will adjust and try to work things out to their favor.

[lixer]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

Trading hours ?? I thought that there was nothing like trading hours in cryptocurrency? Nah, I don’t know for you, but there is nothing like such, unless you have been trading the stock market and confusing it for cryptocurrency market.

For the stock market, the market starts 9 AM and ends 4 PM. There is what is called pre-market trade hours and after trade. It’s only in these stock markets that they say all these things. Cryptocurrency is something else on its own, it is completely different and there is nothing like a time limit, you can trade at anytime and the market can fluctuate and move to any direction at any time.

[TitanGEL]

Maybe it varies from our different time zone. I've noticed also that the market is so active during the late evening in our place which makes me sometimes adopt the timezone and wake up just to trade. I often go along with the volatility because that is a big impact when you are actively trading and how you make a profit from it.

Maybe normal traders don't feel it but if you are very active in trading and spend a lot of time on computers they can certainly feel the changes and they are going to make adjustments.

For me, it's also best to work while volatilities are more active, knowing that the chance your position will be hit is very possible.
You have to manage this well and use it as a good advantage whenever you do your trading business.

Taking note every experienced and observation that you noticed will simply guide you on how to work with your trading activities, there are many patterns better to build or create one when the trade are very active and there are lots of traders who are playing along with you.

If they are really paying attention and they are treating it as advantage, they will adjust and try to work things out to their favor.

In my own observation, the volatility happens when the stock market is closed because for me it is the time where other traders are switching into cryptocurrency market. I'm both stock trader and cryptocurrency trader, I trade the stocks because of the market hours which gives me more time in cryptocurrency trading. The cryptocurrency market is open 24 /7 but in our local market is only open 4 hrs every weekdays. In my country the pre open is at 9:00 am - 9:30 am and the market hours or the trading session is 9:30 -12:45 then 12:45 - 12:50 is pre close then 12:50 -1:00 is the trading at last. When I trade cryptocurrencies, I make sure that I'm monitoring the market because of the volatility, if I'm away with my desktop or monitor; it is the time where I will set automatic cut loss.

[Oceat]

Isn't it tiring to watch the whole thing until you see how the market moves? Cause for me, I just randomly watch what is the current price especially these days when Bitcoin is surging too much and that makes the volatility less stable. I quite hodl for a few days waiting for the right time to sell if there's a chance. Although watching the market move is kind of helpful if you know exactly when it will gonna move but that's just work sometimes in crypto market.

[ice098]

Mostly I trade between 2am until 6am at GMT +8 I don't know why but it always happen for me that during these hrs there will be a big change in the price of my token, so I will sleep early and then wakeup at 2am. I will closely watch the chart for any changes so that I can't missed anything in my watch. After that I will convert it into xrp because for lesser fee and faster transfer to my wallet then I'll sleep. I don't know if I am only the one who are doing this.

[Tingtong]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

If you active 24/7 i hope you can make huge profits in crypto trade. But i think you don't need all time active. Have many apps that give you signal for price so you use it for coin price update

[proTECH77]

Since covid-19 came to collapsed the world economy, many trader find it difficult to understand the hour to trade in the country. Before, market use to change during the weekend to favour traders who trade during that period.
 Since all the trader started to they experience  pandemic which changed the hour of trade in the market and make it hard for the trader to understand the hours of trading not to run loss from their trade in the market.
Many traders have carry out research to see the right hour to trade in the market to make a good profit. According to some trader the best hour to trade is first day of the week where many traders will still put hope on weekend for them to trade their coins to make income not know covid-19 has change the hour from weekend to new week.

[Kupid002]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

I noticed this one before weekend there are big movement in the market. But it's not always happening but mostly it is, maybe the reason is because it is also the  same time
when forexx market will close.

But  do not base only on that since it will not always work if you will trade base on time .  don't forget there are many big news that can also affect price of crypto currency every time they release it eighter it will help the price up or vice versa. When that things happen what ever time it is it will affect the price depend on how big the news it is.

[SquallLeonhart]

US stock market open does have a say in the world trading center and not just crypto, same goes for UK time to time but that is Forex and not stocks. The reason for this is the fact that there is trillions of dollars combined goes around in those markets and sometimes finding a company to make a billion dollar profit is not easy, you could find anywhere you want to put 1000 dollar investment, you could buy almost any stock, but when you have 30 billion dollars you want to invest it gets smaller.

So what they do is, put their money in other stuff, companies from around the world, resources like gold and oil etc etc. This in result sometimes means they care about bitcoin and crypto as well, they don't go in with billions of dollars but they do end up buying and selling a bit which affects the volume.

[MacHenry]

For a while I have observed that trading around the American trading session has high price volatility. This usually occurs at the start of New York stock market trading session.  I observed that trading sessions like the London and Asian financial market openings most often have considerably little impact on BTC’s price volatility.

Also, I observed that midweek had more volatility in the BTC market than the beginning or end of the trading week. Weekends were also observed to be quiet (not all the time).

This major activities correlated with the opening of American financial markets and may possibly be due to the increasing prevalence of American institutions within the market.

My observation does not mean that it always follow such trends, but many a times it does. It is better to stick to what works for you.

[justdimin]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

This might be because there are certain timings when more traders are online as we know crypto traders are not evenly distributed, for example China has a massive number of miners and hence must have more traders as well. So when day time is there for them more trades happen, I assume. Also when there is a bullish run or a bearish run then there are more trades as people tend to panic (when bearish run) and a lot of buy orders are placed when the bull run is going on so that makes the volume of trades bigger.

I don't think there is any other reason because market is open all the time and some guys even have bots so doesn't make much sense to have any other reason apart from the ones above.

[ReiMomo]

Use your Fibonacci retracements technical tool for you to know which regions are doing tradings at that time and to identify when would be the best to trade your stuff.

If you're trading cryptocurrency, you have to consider that it is being accessed globally. So timeframes are different and trading hours vary.
I think that's it for me and good luck with your trading!

[bearexin]

US stock market open does have a say in the world trading center and not just crypto, same goes for UK time to time but that is Forex and not stocks. The reason for this is the fact that there is trillions of dollars combined goes around in those markets and sometimes finding a company to make a billion dollar profit is not easy, you could find anywhere you want to put 1000 dollar investment, you could buy almost any stock, but when you have 30 billion dollars you want to invest it gets smaller.

So what they do is, put their money in other stuff, companies from around the world, resources like gold and oil etc etc. This in result sometimes means they care about bitcoin and crypto as well, they don't go in with billions of dollars but they do end up buying and selling a bit which affects the volume.

Yeah, like the US elections happened and the whole BTC market was swinging and I read some article which mentioned that is Trump is winning then the stock market will go high in US and if Biden wins then the market will go down. I am not sure of the authenticity or the logic behind these but surly there must be some connection of these events on the stock market and hence the BTC market indirectly.

I never noticed the market volumes too much but maybe you have a point and the market changes rapidly at times when compared to mostly stable on other times, interesting fact we are discussing and one that I will keep an eye on because I don't trade much but these are some interesting traits of the crypto market.

[Ryker1]

Well, the only reason for that is that the trading is open to all globally.
That's why predicting using time is not a good idea. Perhaps, the best thing to do first is to recognize the player's origin first. Such as the numbers of traders on this origin and so on, so forth. Then that's the time you will strategize your trading.

[Danslip]

For long term trading, choosing the timeframe is easy and we usually don't chase the opening hours of global markets. From my experience, the London opening hours are usually a rush for day traders and this affects the daily volatility of the BTC markets. Maybe for US markets, the movement on forex pairs affects the crypto prices too.
 

[Mpamaegbu]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

Your observation is correct and that is because the major thing controlling the crypto market is NEWS. Yes, I know the crypto market is 24/7 but that doesn't mean news circulates 24/7 throughout all the countries of the world at the same time. For instance, there could be breaking news in America at 9pm, but it's already 3am in South Africa. It won't get the same impact it will get in the US in SA at that time until time rolls by and South Africans wake up from their sleep. So, imagine a project based in South Africa reacting to that news. Tokens tend to move more in trades during active hours of countries where those projects are based/sited and of exchanges controlling the listed tokens because news don't break at odd hours. News are broken by humans; humans live in countries and countries have active hours.

[Yamifoud]

Trading runs 24/7 but traders won't able to stay that long, they'll come into trading at different time zone.

People who have work in the day will likely make a trade right after their work is done or they'll often come once they are on rest days. That might be the reason why trading is very active when the stock market trading is closed and during weekends. It makes a big sense when we are in trading because it is very important and base on my observation, we can easily make a trade when the market is very active.

[Yatsan]

Trading hours depends on different time zones for we are having different times frames due to distances and are being separated on which time zones vary depending on your position within the boundary of the international date line (IDL). There might be certain time that most traders do trade on a specific time because it is their available time to trade. Weekends might be preferable to have most tradings all because people are having break and tend to stay at home for rest day and trading would be a work from home for certain individuals. But still it does vary for we are different types of traders keeping an eye on different crypto coins market changes. Trading hours do have a peak but we certainly do not exactly know when for traders do have their specified hours of trading that includes on their strategy as they go along trading on this volatile market.

[Lanatsa]

Trading hours depends on different time zones for we are having different times frames due to distances and are being separated on which time zones vary depending on your position within the boundary of the international date line (IDL). There might be certain time that most traders do trade on a specific time because it is their available time to trade. Weekends might be preferable to have most tradings all because people are having break and tend to stay at home for rest day and trading would be a work from home for certain individuals. But still it does vary for we are different types of traders keeping an eye on different crypto coins market changes. Trading hours do have a peak but we certainly do not exactly know when for traders do have their specified hours of trading that includes on their strategy as they go along trading on this volatile market.

It talks about on the market yet which is open all the time without any closing time or what.Trading hours will vary on each individual since we do have different vacant time due to
own reasons.

Trading hours doesn't really need because market is always been volatile which you can always make trade no matter what time in the day.As long you do know how to
put up your position then you're good to go.

Also, there are several types of traders that's why trading behavior would really be depending on what type of trader you are.

[Silberman]

There is no best hours to trade cryptocurrencies in a day, all day you need to be awake if you want to buy/sell at the perfect time.But have to mention that trading volume and transactions counts are considerably less over the weekend compared to weekdays so you can consider not many people were actively trading on weekends but it is not going to help in any way for individuals.

That is the theory but that is only true if we were robots that did not slept and watched the markets all day every day, it is known that action slows down on weekends why is that? Because people take the weekends to relax or visit family members or do something they like instead of being glued to their screen all the time, this means less traders watching the markets, less money, less volatility and less action in general, so it makes sense that if a certain region of the world is more dominant when it comes to the money in aggregate those investors have put in the market that there is more action during the time those investors are awake.

[gabbie2010]

Trading runs 24/7 but traders won't able to stay that long, they'll come into trading at different time zone.

People who have work in the day will likely make a trade right after their work is done or they'll often come once they are on rest days. That might be the reason why trading is very active when the stock market trading is closed and during weekends. It makes a big sense when we are in trading because it is very important and base on my observation, we can easily make a trade when the market is very active.

There are active trading time when the price volatility and momentum tends to move fast especially for forex traders this are time when prices experience huge movement especially during London open and New York open, there are trading opportunities at these period for USD and GBP related pairs especially for scalpers who  trades within the shortest period of time and take exit, while at the close of those market sessions the price tends to be very slow.
BTC/USD price movement has no definite session however it is well traded with higher timeframe because of it massive volatility.

[farrellronald]

Well it is quite natural that some stocks/sectors are more volatile than others, even the time can be a variable for volatility, because of the business model of some sectors. Volatility can also result from the perceived "hotness" and "coldness" of the stock/sector as has been pointed out in another answer. For example: Tech Stocks generally exhibit this phenomenon

[FanEagle]

Crypto is global, that is the reason why it doesn't have a trading hour, it is not something that would make you profit depending on a nation because it has no nation, from Japan to Europe, from USA to Africa everyone around the world uses crypto and will continue to use crypto which means while it is morning in some place it is night somewhere else while bitcoin world still continues in all of them.

There is also no legal boundaries as well, stocks for example gets exchanged at certain hours, you can't buy or sell after the market is closed, crypto market doesn't close and it continues forever, you can be at opposite sides of the world and you can still trade at the same time, one person trading at 2-4 am at night while other does it at 9 am in the morning.

[Hamphser]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

it might be a switch from stock traders to crypto market,
we know that the stock market when they close on the weekend,
from my perspective like that, the weekend is the biggest volatile day for crypto,
if you understand the chart then you will understand.

You can really engage in both but it is really worth to missed out the weekdays just to hang out with stocks or forex? It would be worth if those days will be spent out in crypto.

Im not saying that you must done such thing but if you are after with profitability then crypto will be the best place due to volatility but of course its risky as hell but if you do
like to play on the safe side then its your choice and with this kind of schedule where you do consider only crypto at weekend due to stocks are closed.

[Zanab247]

Many trader are already, loosing hope on cryptocurrency just because the way is  reducing in the area of exchange market which is making some trader worry, if it is the time to trade with crypto to make a good profit. We are about to enter crypto season base on some research confirmation. This is not the hour to trade with cryptocurrency because bitcoin is taking over the market by pumping more than cryptocurrency in the market.

[harizen]

Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

Do you use a tool for checking this? How did you notice that crypto is sometimes more in action after the US stock market opens and on weekend?

Even using some trading indicators, I doubt we can have specific and accurate data wherein crypto is in heavy action although we can create our own data given we have a factor or basis.

Stocks and Forex do have good trading hours. But I doubt we can determine that there is on crypto. Crypto is volatile that heavy actions can happen anytime.

[Silberman]

Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

Do you use a tool for checking this? How did you notice that crypto is sometimes more in action after the US stock market opens and on weekend?

Even using some trading indicators, I doubt we can have specific and accurate data wherein crypto is in heavy action although we can create our own data given we have a factor or basis.

Stocks and Forex do have good trading hours. But I doubt we can determine that there is on crypto. Crypto is volatile that heavy actions can happen anytime.

I have not really checked if this is accurate or not because I'm not a day trader however I think it will be very easy to know if this is true just by looking at the volume, for example if the theory of those that say that it doesn't matter at what hour you decide to trade we should see that there is very little difference in the volume if we were to take the average volume during that year of each hour, however if the observations of the OP are right then we should see a significant difference among the hours in which the US market opens.

[Wicked17]

i think it depends on every country because of different time zone but based on my observation and experience highest peak was around 12am +8 gmt

[proTECH77]

This is not the hour to trade with crypto because many trader who try to trade in the market, find it difficult to make a good  profit from their trade than to start experience loss in the market. Since bitcoin is rising and crypto is falling show that, the  hour to trade with crypto and make a good profit is approaching despite it decrease in the market that is making some trader think it cannot increase in this 2020 till 2021 before they can smile again in the market.
I think we are about to fall into crypto season, where it will be pumping like never before in the market.

[maydna]

Many trader are already, loosing hope on cryptocurrency just because the way is  reducing in the area of exchange market which is making some trader worry, if it is the time to trade with crypto to make a good profit. We are about to enter crypto season base on some research confirmation. This is not the hour to trade with cryptocurrency because bitcoin is taking over the market by pumping more than cryptocurrency in the market.

If you are trading btc is is a good thing because with current volatility you can make some good money in a short time provided you know it is rising or falling and trading as per it . Else you can even make huge losses too. Also for altcoins with the fall getting coins at cheap price which is also a good thing as once it’s rise you will see a gain very quickly .

But don't forget that the bitcoin price can go anywhere, which can make us have a wrong analysis. In this situation, we will have a chance to buy low and sell high, but that depends on how you can analyze the price down or up.

If you want to buy the altcoin now, you need to analyze more to find which coin has the potential to increase. Perhaps, you only need to analyze with the top 10-15 coin list, so you don't feel too many coins that you need to analyze. Besides that, if you can find only one or two coins, that will give you a chance to make a profit later.

[imstillthebest]

its not a typical market that have a close and open hours because it was online . they can make a tool to keep the store active 24/7 while the owner is still sleeping but is the u.s stock market really have a close and open hours ?

 i didnt expect that because i feel that it was the same as other online markets .

people may treat crypto as a stock so as their working times and there is no special about the busy activity on weekends because these are the days where working people are free .

[Viscore]

its not a typical market that have a close and open hours because it was online . they can make a tool to keep the store active 24/7 while the owner is still sleeping but is the u.s stock market really have a close and open hours ?

 i didnt expect that because i feel that it was the same as other online markets .

people may treat crypto as a stock so as their working times and there is no special about the busy activity on weekends because these are the days where working people are free .

There is something special about the weekends and you are right, most of the office workers have free time during this time making them do trading. And that usual market behavior, it also brings most traders to come during that time as the market is so active. Because the result is quite different and more profitable when you are trading during the market is very active than the motion is quite.

[begau]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

This is true, it depends on the time zone of each country but the most important is the developed countries because they have a large number of traders. Weekends are free time, people who are busy during the week will also participate in trading.

[kapalmabur]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

This is true, it depends on the time zone of each country but the most important is the developed countries because they have a large number of traders. Weekends are free time, people who are busy during the week will also participate in trading.

Shouldn't the weekend be the day when American traders rest?
This is not because of the time zone of a country, but the game of a whale, we know that ,
if the whale plays it must wait for the market to be quiet, if it is crowded then the wick will not occur,
because the demand and supply are always high , that's the system.

[XZERO1]

its not a typical market that have a close and open hours because it was online . they can make a tool to keep the store active 24/7 while the owner is still sleeping but is the u.s stock market really have a close and open hours ?

That was really true for crypto market before the pandemic, now the whole crypto market is closely following stock market and you can check SPX/USD and BTC/USD side by side to see the obvious similarities in movements after the pandemic, and what it means is when the US market is closed you rarely see much of a action in crypto market and it's just usually bots moving it up and down and trapping some shorters and longers and making them think something major going to happen but normally nothing specially happens till the US market opens and SPX starts moving again.

[Harriti]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

The reason is the period during which whales are most active. It occurred to me that the Crypto market was heavily manipulated by Americans from the very beginning.
Ironically to me, the time when the whales in the US are active, I am getting ready for bed. they always act at times when the volume is very low to make it easier to manipulate. This is also a disadvantage of the decentralized market, it creates many opportunities for the big money to manipulate easily.

[SirLancelot]

In order to realize what would be the best time to trade, you first need to realize do you want more people trading constantly during that hour and have high volume, or do you want it to be a lot less so that you could trade without too many people?

If you want high volume that means you need to find out when people trade, since we are a global market you need to figure out where the biggest traders live, USA comes to mind of course but Europe is not small neither, when you get that you need to find where they trade as well, you combine these two things together and you find the trading hour with highest volume. If you want lowest, you need to find exchanges that are smaller and also find the hours with least trading, you can do this by monitoring trade levels during the day.

[mnporter2001]

i think it depends on every country because of different time zone but based on my observation and experience highest peak was around 12am +8 gmt

This is just my 3 year trading experience in the Crypto market, hopefully it will help us realize how whales work.
In fact, it does not have an exact time to know if the Crypto market will be volatile. All are preset whales. as long as the market has a low trading volume signal then that is when the whales are active. best we should look at H4 Chart, if it consistently has 6-8 small volume candles and there is no significant volatility then it is a sign of upcoming manipulation.

[shield132]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

Yes, without doubt there are hours when the cryptocurrency trading is the most active. For example, let's take GMT and search for different countries and save what's their timeframe. There are certain countries that trade the most, you have to find these countries + their GMT. This will just help you to understand when there is a sunny day in these countries. I've found some researches where it's stated that UTC−16:00 (i.e. 4 PM) is the most intense time in trading. There is a good article about it that you should check around this topic: Set Your Alarms: Most Bitcoin Is Now Traded During These Hours

[marcous]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

Yes, because in trading there is a term closed daily closed weekly where it affects where the price is going.  If it creates new support it is likely that the price will go up.  Because traders need analysis, don't be rushed when will entery in the market

[AmoreJaz]

In order to realize what would be the best time to trade, you first need to realize do you want more people trading constantly during that hour and have high volume, or do you want it to be a lot less so that you could trade without too many people?

If you want high volume that means you need to find out when people trade, since we are a global market you need to figure out where the biggest traders live, USA comes to mind of course but Europe is not small neither, when you get that you need to find where they trade as well, you combine these two things together and you find the trading hour with highest volume. If you want lowest, you need to find exchanges that are smaller and also find the hours with least trading, you can do this by monitoring trade levels during the day.

thats a lot to do to come up with specific conclusion. a lot of variables to consider but you can limit your assessment by focusing on specific alts that you want to devote your funds with. if you do really want to follow a specific coin, you can check the exchanges and the trading volume of that coin. you can also see the timelines where it is heavily traded.
 as crypto trading is happening 24/7, you can get an idea which timezones are active on the specific coin you are following with or if you want less activity, you can check smaller exchanges because i can assure you, their activity is slow. so depends on your goal why you want to check the trading hours.

[MCobian]

In fact, I do realize that every weekend market is much more active than weekdays. I also trade more often on weekends
because my free time is on weekends. Maybe it's just a coincidence or just my feeling that it's easier to make profits on
the weekends for me. Because the crypto market is always open 24/7 it's up to everyone to be more comfortable trading when.

[posi]

In fact, I do realize that every weekend market is much more active than weekdays. I also trade more often on weekends
because my free time is on weekends. Maybe it's just a coincidence or just my feeling that it's easier to make profits on the weekends for me. Because the crypto market is always open 24/7 it's up to everyone to be more comfortable trading when.

The market usually experiences flash dump in price before the weekdays. If you ask me I will tell you that accumulating or invest during the weekend it good cause the market capital are usually close for the weekend, some day/arbitrage traders usually take some time off when it weekend so they can spend some time with their family, difficulty usually reduce when it weekend and once mining difficulty reduced it will impact the market price

[fishbonez11]

Even though crypto-market is open 24/7 I've noticed that trading at certain hours (depending on time zone) is more active with more volatility. Sometimes it's right after US stock market opens, sometimes it's on weekends.
What do you think the reasons?

The price is so unpredictable. I almost cannot see the pattern on where and when the price will show opportunity to gain. As I am observing the price, and it behave differently from time to time. But I notice good movement during weekend, people are more active on trading maybe during this time. It really takes a lot of experience to familiarize trading, since the behaviour of price depend on human behaviour, I can say that it can still be studied and predicted wisely.