When Does EURUSD (Euro / US Dollar) Actually Move? Hourly Ranges on 1 minute Charts

Educational reference. Measured from 29,677 recorded 1 minute bars of Euro / U.S. Dollar through October 20, 2026.

10:00 is the busiest hour, averaging 0.0002 per bar — 4.0× the quietest hour at 17:00.

The same stop is a different stop at different times of day. This is the median high to low range of a single 1 minute bar of Euro / U.S. Dollar, hour by hour, measured from 29,677 recorded bars over the last 90 days.

Hour (ET)	Median range	Bars
00:00	0.0000	1,259
01:00	0.0001	1,260
02:00	0.0001	1,260
03:00	0.0001	1,260
04:00	0.0001	1,260
05:00	0.0001	1,260
06:00	0.0001	1,260
07:00	0.0001	1,260
08:00	0.0001	1,260
09:00	0.0002	1,260
10:00	0.0002	1,260
11:00	0.0001	1,260
12:00	0.0001	1,260
13:00	0.0001	1,260
14:00	0.0001	1,260
15:00	0.0001	1,260
16:00	0.0000	1,205
17:00	0.0000	1,124
18:00	0.0000	1,195
19:00	0.0000	1,194
20:00	0.0001	1,200
21:00	0.0001	1,200
22:00	0.0001	1,200
23:00	0.0001	1,200

The spread across the day

The busiest hour is 10:00, averaging 0.0002 per bar. The quietest is 17:00 at 0.0000. That is a 4.0× difference across the same instrument, the same timeframe, the same trading day.

A stop sized for 17:00 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 1 minute bar of Euro / U.S. Dollar 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.