GIO4X Labs · Experiment

Session globe

Which of the four FX sessions are open at this minute, on a globe you can turn, with the line between day and night. Worked out from the clock, and from nothing else.

A filled lamp with a ring is a session inside its window; a hollow ring is one outside it. The champagne line is where day meets night, and the small ring is where the sun is overhead. The land is schematic.

The four sessions, now

Reading your clock…

The reading appears once your clock has been read.

SydneyNot read yet
Window 08:00–17:00 Sydney time, Monday to Friday
33.9°S 151.2°E
TokyoNot read yet
Window 09:00–18:00 Tokyo time, Monday to Friday
35.7°N 139.7°E
LondonNot read yet
Window 08:00–17:00 London time, Monday to Friday
51.5°N 0.1°W
New YorkNot read yet
Window 08:00–17:00 New York time, Monday to Friday
40.7°N 74.0°W

ScheduleSource: Your device clockComputed from the clock and the conventional session windows. Not a data feed: public holidays are not reflected, and a session being open says nothing about prices or activity.

How it is worked out

A clock, four windows and the sun.

The globe is a picture of the list beside it. For the whole day as a film, see One day of markets; for nine exchanges and their own hours, the World Market Clock.

Open or closed: Each session has a conventional window in its own city’s time, Monday to Friday. The clock is converted to that city’s time, daylight saving included, and compared with the window. That is all “open” means here.
Overlap: When two sessions are inside their windows at once, a line joins them on the globe and the list says so. It shows that both are open, and nothing about what passes between them.
Day and night: The sun’s position is worked out from the date and the UTC time. The champagne line is where it is on the horizon; the small ring is where it is overhead.
The land: A coarse field of points, the same one the other globes on this site use. It is there to tell the continents apart, not to navigate by.

What the globe does not know

Prices, volumes or any measure of how busy a session is.
Public holidays and early closes.
The hours GIO4X offers on any particular instrument.
Anything fetched from a server: the reading is made in your browser from your own clock.

The 3D view needs WebGL. Where it is not available, a flat map stands in its place and the list is unchanged. With reduced motion the globe does not turn by itself. Data methodology

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