Which of the 23 futures hours moves more than it usually does?

Four futures — the S&P 500 (ES), the Nasdaq 100 (NQ), gold (GC) and crude oil (CL) — cut into 10-minute blocks of the New York clock, across the whole live CME session: it opens 18:00 ET and runs to 17:00 ET the next day, with the 17:00–18:00 halt excluded because nothing trades in it. All four share that clock, which is the only reason they can share this grid. Four bands are shaded on every chart: Asia 18:00–03:00 · Europe 03:00–09:30 · US cash 09:30–16:00 · Post-close 16:00–17:00. Every contiguous stretch of blocks is scored against that contract's own average block of the same length, so what stands out is deviation, not drift, and both tails count. Define as many date windows as you like; every one scores the same grid. One click switches the chart between the four; whichever you are not charting, the S&P rides behind it on its own scale (the Nasdaq does, when the S&P is the chart). Each contract states its own depth — they are not equally deep and are never averaged together.

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The two plays — when to be long, when to be short

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Session phases

Stacked 10-minute futures tape

Blocks all Row colour
Session phases
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Which part of the day moves? — the four bands, end to end

Every stretch of the clock, ranked

What this store actually holds

Measured from the files on disk, per block size. Nothing is rounded up.
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What every word on this page means

Machine-readable print-out (ASCII) — every number on this page as plain text
Fixed-width columns, units and n stated. This is the read path for a language model: it restates every chart and table on this page without reading a single pixel.
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