Cotton price
How Cotton moves through the day
Average Cotton range in each session as a share of its price, measured on every trading day since 2016.
Average range by session
Busiest hours (UTC)
Cotton moves most from 13:00 to 16:00 UTC. The quietest hour starts at 00:00 UTC.
See your own Cotton trades on this chart
Connect your broker once. Every Cotton entry and exit lands on the chart, your journal and rules sit beside it, and Edge learns from your trades to show you the one thing to fix next. Then practice it on Cotton in the backtester before you trade it live.
Cotton questions
Cotton is the price of cotton in US dollars, quoted as a cash CFD that follows the futures market.
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.
Cotton trades only during its futures exchange's session, for part of the day on weekdays, so its price can open with a gap from where it closed.
Contract sizes for Cotton differ from broker to broker. Your broker's contract specification shows how much one lot is and what a $1.00 move is worth per lot, so check it before you size a trade.
Weather and crop or mine supply, official supply and demand reports, demand from the biggest buyers and the US dollar.