ENQ 1-Minute Range by Time of Day
How much does the ENQ actually move on the 1-minute chart at different times of day? The table below is measured from 1,800 recorded 1-minute bars across 4 recent sessions: for each hour of the day, the average distance between a bar's high and its low.
| Hour | Avg 1-minute range | |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 AM ET | 6.11 pts | |
| 4:00 AM ET | 5.87 pts | |
| 5:00 AM ET | 7.64 pts | |
| 6:00 AM ET | 6.78 pts | |
| 7:00 AM ET | 10.13 pts | |
| 8:00 AM ET | 10.19 pts | |
| 9:00 AM ET | 9.11 pts | |
| 10:00 AM ET | 6.36 pts | |
| 11:00 AM ET | 8.15 pts | |
| 12:00 PM ET | 11.83 pts | |
| 1:00 PM ET | 15.98 pts | |
| 2:00 PM ET | 15.29 pts | |
| 3:00 PM ET | 13.84 pts | |
| 4:00 PM ET | 9.22 pts | |
| 5:00 PM ET | 10.78 pts | |
| 6:00 PM ET | 7.81 pts | |
| 7:00 PM ET | 8.94 pts | |
| 8:00 PM ET | 5.54 pts | |
| 10:00 PM ET | 5.34 pts | |
| 11:00 PM ET | 4.72 pts |
How to read this
The most active hours in this window were 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM ET, and the quietest were 11:00 PM and 10:00 PM ET. A wider bar means each interval covers more ground. The takeaway is purely observational: a fixed number of points represents a very different share of typical movement at different hours — in this window, the most active hour covered roughly 3× the ground of the quietest.
These figures shift with volatility regimes — they describe the recorded window above, not a guarantee of the next session.
