USDZAR price
How USDZAR moves through the day
Average USDZAR range in each session as a share of its price, measured on every trading day since 2014.
Average range by session
Busiest hours (UTC)
USDZAR moves most from 12:00 to 16:00 UTC. The quietest hour starts at 04:00 UTC.
Size a USDZAR trade
One standard lot of USDZAR is 100,000 units on most brokers. Check your broker's contract size before you trade.
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USDZAR questions
USDZAR is the price of one USD in ZAR. USD is the base currency and ZAR is the quote currency, so the price tells you how many ZAR 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.
USDZAR 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 USDZAR is 100,000 USD, so a one pip move (0.0001) is worth 10.00 ZAR a lot, and 0.01 lots moves 0.10 ZAR a pip. Check your broker's contract size before you trade.
Mostly what traders expect the Federal Reserve to do with interest rates, inflation and jobs data from both economies, and how much risk markets want to take.