When Does 6E Actually Move? Hourly Ranges on 15 minute Charts

Educational reference. Measured from 5,884 recorded 15 minute bars of Euro FX through October 19, 2026.

10:00 is the busiest hour, averaging 0.0007 per bar — 3.5× the quietest hour at 19:00.

The same stop is a different stop at different times of day. This is the median high to low range of a single 15 minute bar of Euro FX, hour by hour, measured from 5,884 recorded bars over the last 90 days.

Hour (ET)	Median range	Bars
00:00	0.0002	256
01:00	0.0003	255
02:00	0.0004	256
03:00	0.0005	255
04:00	0.0005	256
05:00	0.0005	256
06:00	0.0004	256
07:00	0.0005	256
08:00	0.0006	256
09:00	0.0007	256
10:00	0.0007	255
11:00	0.0006	256
12:00	0.0005	256
13:00	0.0004	255
14:00	0.0003	256
15:00	0.0003	256
16:00	0.0003	256
17:00	0.0003	67
18:00	0.0002	191
19:00	0.0002	256
20:00	0.0003	256
21:00	0.0004	256
22:00	0.0003	255
23:00	0.0003	255

The spread across the day

The busiest hour is 10:00, averaging 0.0007 per bar. The quietest is 19:00 at 0.0002. That is a 3.5× difference across the same instrument, the same timeframe, the same trading day.

A stop sized for 19:00 conditions will be caught routinely at 10:00, and a stop sized for 10:00 gives away far more than it needs to overnight. The same number of points does not mean the same thing at every hour.

How this was measured

Every 15 minute bar of Euro FX recorded in the last 90 days was grouped by the hour it opened, in Eastern time. The figure shown is the median of high minus low within each group — the middle bar of that hour, not the average, so a single outlier session cannot distort it. Hours with fewer than 60 recorded bars are omitted rather than shown on thin evidence.

These are recorded market ranges, not predictions. Nothing on this page is a projection.