AUDUSD price
How AUDUSD moves through the day
Average AUDUSD range in each session as a share of its price, measured on every trading day since 2012.
Average range by session
Busiest hours (UTC)
AUDUSD moves most from 12:00 to 16:00 UTC. The quietest hour starts at 20:00 UTC.
Size a AUDUSD trade
One standard lot of AUDUSD is 100,000 units on most brokers. Check your broker's contract size before you trade.
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AUDUSD questions
AUDUSD is the price of one AUD in USD. AUD is the base currency and USD is the quote currency, so the price tells you how many US dollars one AUD costs.
Each broker quotes its own bid and ask from its own liquidity providers, so prices can differ a little from broker to broker. The prices here are indicative bid quotes. Spreads also widen around big news and when the market opens.
AUDUSD trades 24 hours a day, five days a week, from 17:00 New York time on Sunday to 17:00 New York time on Friday. It is busiest when London and New York are both open, roughly 12:00 to 16:00 UTC.
On most brokers one standard lot of AUDUSD is 100,000 AUD, so a one pip move (0.0001) is worth $10.00 a lot, and 0.01 lots moves $0.10 a pip. Check your broker's contract size before you trade.
Mostly what traders expect the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Federal Reserve to do with interest rates, inflation and jobs data from both economies, and how much risk markets want to take.