YAL Academy
When the market moves
The trading day as a structural fact rather than a strategy. Three sessions, their overlaps, the GCC working week against London and New York, rollover, and the hours when liquidity is simply not there.
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The arc
IntermediateModule 6 of 10
8 lessons, about 60 min
- AssumesThe venue and your counterparty
- UnlocksReading the chart
The lessons
What this module covers
Defines the session first, then walks the three in the order they open so the reader builds a 24 hour picture, then layers the overlaps where liquidity concentrates. Only then does it introduce the regional reality that no competitor covers, GCC hours and the Sunday to Thursday mismatch, and closes on rollover, holidays and thin books, which is where the previous three modules on cost, margin and execution all come due at once.
Lesson 01
What a trading session is
Why a market that never closes during the working week still has a shape, and what actually opens and closes.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 6 min
Lesson 02
The Tokyo session
What trades while Asia is at the desk, which currencies and instruments the interest concentrates in, and how the band sits against a Gulf clock.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 6 min
Lesson 03
The London session
The deepest hours of the FX day and what that depth does to spreads and to movement.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 11 min
Lesson 04
The New York session
US data, US equity hours, and the afternoon that most economic releases land in.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 6 min
Lesson 05
Session overlaps and where liquidity concentrates
The hours when two regions are active at once, and what that does to cost and to movement.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 7 min
Lesson 06
GCC hours against London and New York
The trading day mapped onto Gulf Standard Time, the clock this curriculum uses. Gulf time never shifts, so the sessions move against it, twice a year and by different amounts.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 9 min
Lesson 07
The Sunday to Thursday working week
A regional working week laid over a market that keeps a Monday to Friday one, and the four gaps that mismatch creates.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 7 min
Lesson 08
Rollover, holidays and thin markets
The daily cut off, the days liquidity is absent, and why cost and execution both change in those windows.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Read time
- 8 min
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