Daylight Savings Time Notice

On this upcoming Sunday, October 31st, Europe will be moving back its clocks by 1 hour as summer time hours come to an end. The United States and Canada will be moving clocks back exactly 1 week later on November 7th. Our trading server is tied to European time so the time zone of our server will be moving to GMT+2 for the next six months as usual. Note the following ways in which this affects your trading accounts next week.

  1. For those living in the US and Canada, you are used to markets opening at 5PM East Coast time on Sunday evenings. Due to daylight savings, they will open at 6PM East Coast time because your clocks will have not yet moved back. It then follows that Metals and Oil will not open up until 7PM ET. All times will read correctly on our servers however, with the market open at 00:00 and Metals/Oil at 01:00.
  2. Rollover will be at 6PM ET for US and Canadian clients during next week, not 5PM ET for the same reasons as above.
  3. On Friday, November 5th the server will shut off at 23:00 server time as usual. However this will correspond with 5PM ET on Friday while US/Canadian clients are used to our server closing 1 hour earlier than this on Fridays (4PM ET).

Should you have any questions feel free to ask us.

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