MNQ 1000-Minute Range by Time of Day
How much does the Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100 actually move on the 1000-minute chart at different times of day? The table below is measured from 4,580 recorded 1000-minute bars across 3 recent sessions: for each hour of the day, the average distance between a bar's high and its low.
| Hour | Avg 1000-minute range | |
|---|---|---|
| 2:00 AM ET | 11.92 pts | |
| 3:00 AM ET | 15.33 pts | |
| 4:00 AM ET | 15.02 pts | |
| 5:00 AM ET | 13.16 pts | |
| 6:00 AM ET | 13.22 pts | |
| 9:00 AM ET | 10.68 pts | |
| 10:00 AM ET | 10.23 pts | |
| 12:00 PM ET | 8.17 pts | |
| 1:00 PM ET | 8.21 pts | |
| 2:00 PM ET | 8.13 pts | |
| 3:00 PM ET | 8.10 pts | |
| 4:00 PM ET | 13.14 pts | |
| 6:00 PM ET | 11.56 pts | |
| 7:00 PM ET | 8.94 pts | |
| 8:00 PM ET | 10.46 pts | |
| 9:00 PM ET | 10.89 pts | |
| 10:00 PM ET | 10.50 pts | |
| 11:00 PM ET | 9.19 pts |
How to read this
The most active hours in this window were 3:00 AM, 4:00 AM, 6:00 AM ET, and the quietest were 3:00 PM and 2:00 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 2× the ground of the quietest.
These figures shift with volatility regimes — they describe the recorded window above, not a guarantee of the next session.
