# Cotton Price Today: Live Chart and Daily Range | DT Terminal > Live Cotton price and Cotton chart. See today's range, how Cotton moves in each session since 2016, and size your next Cotton trade. Commodities · Cotton # Cotton price USD -0.646 (-0.79%) today Bid 80.984 Ask 81.134 Spread 0.150 Updated 18:14:59 UTC Market closed Opens Mon 02:00 UTC [Open full chart](https://www.thedtterminal.com/login?signup=true) Loading the chart… Day range 80.924 to 82.069 $1.14 so far today Previous close 81.630 The last session's close 52 week range 62.527 to 94.518 High set 31 Aug 2026 Average day range $1.76 Last 90 trading days ## 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 Asia 00:00 to 07:00 0.77% · about $0.621 today London 07:00 to 12:00 0.79% · about $0.638 today London and New York 12:00 to 16:00 1.41% · about $1.14 today New York afternoon 16:00 to 21:00 0.91% · about $0.740 today ### Busiest hours (UTC) 00 to 11 top row 12 to 23 bottom row Cotton moves most from 13:00 to 16:00 UTC. The quietest hour starts at 00:00 UTC. Your Cotton trades ## 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. [Start free](https://www.thedtterminal.com/login?signup=true) [Practice Cotton in the backtester](https://www.thedtterminal.com/login?signup=true) Example: an entry and its exit marked on a Cotton chart Example: your entry (green) and exit (red) drawn where they happened. Edge Example: "Most of your Cotton losses come in the first 15 minutes after New York opens. Try waiting for the first 15 minute candle to close." ## Cotton questions ### What is Cotton? Cotton is the price of cotton in US dollars, quoted as a cash CFD that follows the futures market. ### Why is my broker's Cotton price different? 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. ### When does Cotton trade? 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. ### How much is one lot of Cotton? 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. ### What moves the Cotton price? Weather and crop or mine supply, official supply and demand reports, demand from the biggest buyers and the US dollar. ## Markets traders watch with Cotton [Aluminium Aluminium +0.26%](https://www.thedtterminal.com/markets/aluminium) [Cattle Live cattle -2.27%](https://www.thedtterminal.com/markets/cattle) [Cocoa Cocoa -0.10%](https://www.thedtterminal.com/markets/cocoa) [Coffee Coffee +0.01%](https://www.thedtterminal.com/markets/coffee) --- Risk disclosure: Futures, forex and options trading contains substantial risk and is not for every investor. An investor could potentially lose all or more than the initial investment. Risk capital is money that can be lost without jeopardizing one's financial security or lifestyle. Only risk capital should be used for trading and only those with sufficient risk capital should consider trading. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. [Read the full risk disclosure](https://www.thedtterminal.com/legal/risk-disclosure). This is the Markdown version of https://www.thedtterminal.com/markets/cotton. [Home](https://www.thedtterminal.com/) · [Verification](https://www.thedtterminal.com/verification) · [Pricing](https://www.thedtterminal.com/pricing) · [Supported brokers](https://www.thedtterminal.com/supported-brokers) · [Rankings](https://www.thedtterminal.com/rankings) · [About](https://www.thedtterminal.com/about) · [llms.txt](https://www.thedtterminal.com/llms.txt)