USDCHF price
How USDCHF moves through the day
Average USDCHF range in each session as a share of its price, measured on every trading day since 2012.
Average range by session
Busiest hours (UTC)
USDCHF moves most from 12:00 to 16:00 UTC. The quietest hour starts at 04:00 UTC.
Size a USDCHF trade
One standard lot of USDCHF is 100,000 units on most brokers. Check your broker's contract size before you trade.
See your own USDCHF trades on this chart
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USDCHF questions
USDCHF is the price of one USD in CHF. USD is the base currency and CHF is the quote currency, so the price tells you how many Swiss francs one USD 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.
USDCHF 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 USDCHF is 100,000 USD, so a one pip move (0.0001) is worth CHF 10.00 a lot, and 0.01 lots moves CHF 0.10 a pip. Check your broker's contract size before you trade.
Mostly what traders expect the Federal Reserve and the Swiss National Bank to do with interest rates, inflation and jobs data from both economies, and how much risk markets want to take.