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

Educational reference. Measured from 34,869 recorded 1 minute bars of U.S. Dollar / Canadian Dollar through October 18, 2026.

10:00 is the busiest hour, averaging 0.0002 per bar — 5.0× 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 1 minute bar of U.S. Dollar / Canadian Dollar, hour by hour, measured from 34,869 recorded bars over the last 90 days.

Hour (ET)	Median range	Bars
00:00	0.0001	1,498
01:00	0.0001	1,500
02:00	0.0001	1,500
03:00	0.0001	1,500
04:00	0.0001	1,500
05:00	0.0001	1,500
06:00	0.0001	1,500
07:00	0.0001	1,500
08:00	0.0001	1,500
09:00	0.0002	1,500
10:00	0.0002	1,500
11:00	0.0002	1,500
12:00	0.0001	1,500
13:00	0.0001	1,500
14:00	0.0001	1,500
15:00	0.0001	1,500
16:00	0.0001	1,447
17:00	0.0001	1,162
18:00	0.0001	1,368
19:00	0.0000	1,374
20:00	0.0001	1,380
21:00	0.0001	1,380
22:00	0.0001	1,380
23:00	0.0001	1,380

The spread across the day

The busiest hour is 10:00, averaging 0.0002 per bar. The quietest is 19:00 at 0.0000. That is a 5.0× 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 1 minute bar of U.S. Dollar / Canadian 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.