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title: "Session overlap - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
description: "The hours when two trading sessions are open at once. The London-New York overlap, roughly 13:00 to 16:30 UK time, carries the highest volume and the…"
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Sessions and events

# Session overlap

The hours when two trading sessions are open at once. The London-New York overlap, roughly 13:00 to 16:30 UK time, carries the highest volume and the tightest spreads of the day.

GFN’s figure

Trading during the overlap cuts the spread component of a trade's cost, but commission is unchanged at $3.50 per side, $7 per lot round turn and the daily loss limit is the same figure at every hour.

In detail

## Session overlap, explained

Overlaps concentrate liquidity, which means tighter spreads, better fills and larger moves in the same window. For a cost-sensitive strategy it is the most efficient part of the day to trade.

It is also the window with the most scheduled data, so the volatility comes with the news-window rules attached.

[The rule in full →](https://getfundednow.com/rules/trading-hours) · [Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [Forex at GFN](https://getfundednow.com/instruments/forex) · [More sessions and events](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/sessions)

Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [London session](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/london-session) - The European trading window, roughly 08:00 to 16:30 UK time. It is the highest-volume session in forex, and the one where the euro and sterling pairs do most of their daily range.
- [New York session](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/new-york-session) - The US trading window, roughly 08:00 to 17:00 Eastern time. Most scheduled US data lands at its start, which makes the first ninety minutes the most volatile stretch of the trading day.
- [Liquidity](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/liquidity) - How much can be traded at a given price without moving it. Deep liquidity produces tight spreads and reliable fills; thin liquidity produces wide spreads, slippage and gaps.
- [Spread](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/spread) - The gap between the bid and the ask price. It is the cost paid on entry: a position opens slightly underwater by the width of the spread before the market has moved at all.
- [Economic calendar](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/economic-calendar) - A schedule of upcoming data releases with their expected impact, previous readings and forecasts. Checking it before a session is the cheapest risk control available to a trader.

Also governed by [/rules/trading-hours](https://getfundednow.com/rules/trading-hours)

[Market open](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/market-open) · [Bank holiday](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/bank-holiday)

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