MGC (Micro Gold Futures) 1 Minute Range by Time of Day

Educational reference. Data through Monday, September 21, 2026 at 12:11 PM ET. Measured from recorded market data — historical readings for learning purposes, not predictions and not trading advice.

How much does the Micro Gold actually move on the 1 minute chart at different times of day? The table below is measured from 2,609 recorded 1 minute bars across 17 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		6.64 pts
1:00 AM ET		3.33 pts
2:00 AM ET		2.71 pts
3:00 AM ET		2.65 pts
4:00 AM ET		2.71 pts
5:00 AM ET		3.37 pts
7:00 AM ET		4.77 pts
8:00 AM ET		5.08 pts
9:00 AM ET		9.75 pts
10:00 AM ET		8.80 pts
11:00 AM ET		6.33 pts
12:00 PM ET		5.41 pts
1:00 PM ET		3.09 pts
2:00 PM ET		2.57 pts
3:00 PM ET		2.80 pts
4:00 PM ET		1.78 pts
6:00 PM ET		1.77 pts
7:00 PM ET		2.01 pts
8:00 PM ET		2.74 pts
9:00 PM ET		5.13 pts

How to read this

The most active hours in this window were 9:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 12:00 AM ET, and the quietest were 6:00 PM and 4:00 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 6× the ground of the quietest.

These figures shift with volatility regimes — they describe the recorded window above, not a guarantee of the next session.

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