When Does MBT (Micro Bitcoin Futures) Actually Move? Hourly Ranges on 5 minute Charts

Educational reference. Measured from 21,046 recorded 5 minute bars of Micro Bitcoin through October 19, 2026.

10:00 is the busiest hour, averaging 175.0 per bar — 3.2× 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 5 minute bar of Micro Bitcoin, hour by hour, measured from 21,046 recorded bars over the last 90 days.

Hour (ET)	Median range	Bars
00:00	60.0	870
01:00	60.0	874
02:00	60.0	854
03:00	70.0	808
04:00	80.0	811
05:00	65.0	804
06:00	65.0	828
07:00	70.0	844
08:00	95.0	871
09:00	135.0	880
10:00	175.0	907
11:00	135.0	905
12:00	105.0	915
13:00	90.0	922
14:00	80.0	921
15:00	80.0	912
16:00	65.0	922
17:00	55.0	842
18:00	70.0	921
19:00	60.0	908
20:00	75.0	888
21:00	85.0	896
22:00	75.0	876
23:00	65.0	867

The spread across the day

The busiest hour is 10:00, averaging 175.0 per bar. The quietest is 17:00 at 55.0. That is a 3.2× 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 5 minute bar of Micro Bitcoin 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.