Sydney opens the week

The week starts here, before the rest of the market wakes up

Australia is where the currency week begins. The first prices print in Sydney at roughly 07:00–09:00 local time on Monday, depending on which side of the world has moved its clocks — hours before Europe opens its screens. Everything that happened over the weekend shows up in that first hour, in the middle of an Australian working morning.

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Australia trades at the front of the currency week: the first prices print in Sydney at roughly 07:00–09:00 local time on Monday, so any gap left by the weekend is priced during Australian business hours rather than overnight. Those early hours are thinner than the rest of the day, the Sydney–Tokyo session is when Australian dollar pairs move most, and the London–New York overlap — the busiest stretch anywhere — arrives close to midnight here. FxPro states a $100 minimum first deposit by card or bank wire, with five platforms reading one account across 2,116 instruments. Availability and terms can change, so confirm the current offer before opening an account.

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What comes with trading at the front of the week

Sydney prints the first prices of the currency week, roughly 07:00–09:00 local time on Monday
A weekend gap is priced here first — in Australian business hours, not overnight
The Sydney–Tokyo session is when pairs carrying the Australian dollar are most active
The London–New York overlap lands near midnight locally, so pending orders and stops do the night shift
Perth runs two hours behind Sydney and keeps the same clock all year, so the open drifts for the west coast
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FxPro Australia — the short version

Being first has practical consequences. Any gap between Friday's close and Monday's open — news that landed over the weekend, a move in an adjacent market — is priced in Sydney while London is still asleep, so an Australian trader meets it during business hours rather than reading about it afterwards. The same position is why the early hours are thin: the first stretch of the week has fewer participants and wider quotes than the same instrument will show six hours later.

After that the day follows a familiar shape. The Sydney and Tokyo session is when pairs carrying the Australian dollar are at their most active; the loudest hours of all — London and New York trading at the same time — arrive close to midnight here, which makes server-side orders more useful than a screen. Perth sits two hours behind Sydney and does not move its clocks, so the open drifts through the year for the west coast. Costs are unchanged by any of it: Standard quotes from 1.2 pips with no commission, Raw+ from 0.0 pips plus $3.50 per lot per side, and our measured figures sit on the live spreads page. Terms can change, so confirm the current ones before depositing.

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Frequently asked questions

When does the trading week open in Australian time?

Sydney prints the first prices of the week at roughly 07:00 to 09:00 local time on Monday. The exact hour drifts through the year because Australia and the northern markets change their clocks on different dates, and Perth — two hours behind Sydney and with no seasonal change — sees it differently again.

Why does the first hour of the week look thin?

Because most of the market has not arrived yet. Sydney and then Tokyo are trading while Europe sleeps, so there are fewer participants and quotes are wider than the same instrument will show once London opens. It is the normal shape of the week's start, not a fault of the platform.

Where does the weekend gap show up?

Here, first. Anything that happened between Friday's close and Monday's open is priced at the Sydney open, which means an Australian trader meets it during working hours. A position left open over the weekend takes that opening price as it comes.

When are the busiest hours locally?

Late at night: the London and New York overlap, when both centres trade together, falls close to midnight in eastern Australia. Pending orders, stop losses and take profits sit on the broker's servers, so they keep working through those hours with the terminal closed.

Which pairs are most active in the local session?

Those carrying the Australian dollar, during the Sydney and Tokyo hours — that is when domestic data and regional flow reach the market. Our measured hourly figures show how the spread on each instrument behaves through the day rather than at a single moment.

What does a trade cost?

Standard accounts start from 1.2 pips with no commission. Raw+ starts from 0.0 pips and adds $3.50 per lot per side, so one standard lot opened and closed costs $7.00 in commission. Both are FxPro's published terms.