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MARKET HOURS
OVERLAP SESSION
CASH OPEN
MAINTENANCE BREAK
DIFFERENT PRODUCT

Market Hours

The sessions when a venue is open and when liquidity typically concentrates.

Hours define which playbook you are actually running. Overlap sessions, cash opens, and maintenance breaks change spreads and the mix of participants. A method sampled at one hour can fail at another without the rules being ‘wrong’ — they were applied to a different product.

On the desk

A breakout that is routine after a cash equity open may be a lonely drift in the overnight futures book. The session box belongs on the page.

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