When Does MYM Actually Move? Hourly Ranges on 15-minute Charts

Educational reference. Measured from 5,853 recorded 15-minute bars of Micro E-mini Dow through September 28, 2026.

10:00 is the busiest hour, averaging 112.0 per bar — 6.6× 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 Micro E-mini Dow, hour by hour, measured from 5,853 recorded bars over the last 90 days.

Hour (ET)	Median range	Bars
00:00	17.0	256
01:00	21.5	256
02:00	29.0	256
03:00	40.0	256
04:00	41.0	256
05:00	34.0	256
06:00	34.0	256
07:00	41.0	256
08:00	55.0	256
09:00	72.0	256
10:00	112.0	256
11:00	78.5	256
12:00	58.0	256
13:00	52.5	250
14:00	45.0	248
15:00	43.0	248
16:00	36.0	248
17:00	24.0	60
18:00	28.0	192
19:00	17.0	255
20:00	31.0	256
21:00	27.0	256
22:00	24.0	256
23:00	19.0	256

The spread across the day

The busiest hour is 10:00, averaging 112.0 per bar. The quietest is 19:00 at 17.0. That is a 6.6× 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 Micro E-mini Dow 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.