Prior to starting trading actively on Forex, the trader should consider many factors which affect the market behavior, including holidays in different countries. When trader knows the dates of major holidays, it helps him to understand the market peculiarities at different periods of time.

To begin with, Forex working schedule is very convenient: it operates 5 days a week, from Monday to Friday. The weekends are set for Saturday and Sunday, but even during these days the trading does not stop, just shrinks significantly and can be carried out mainly on major currency pairs. Apart from the weekends, Forex activity can be interrupted during public holidays which widely affect the work of the market. As far as Forex is subdivided into 4 sessions: the European, the American, the Asian, and the Pacific, and due to public holidays in different countries, the market activity is changing constantly. When there is a holiday in a country or a group of countries, the trade can be performed with a delay and at the end of the weekends the situation may turn against the trader. That is why it is necessary to pay the outmost attention to such deals.

Undoubtedly, not all public holidays are of great importance and can trigger slowdown in activity of several countries. Basically, there are just New Year, Catholic Christmas, and Labor Day. But the work does not stop completely on currency exchange and in the economic world even during such occasions: information and finance flow provide trader with a great volume of information for Forex analysis. Despite that the price of some currency pairs moves much slower, after the break is over, traders expect new changes as Forex, undoubtedly, will react to new events.