Chicago Time Zone

As all other places in the World, Chicago is placed in a Time Zone. This is called the Chicago Time Zone.

All of Illinois is in the Central Time Zone and therefore Chicago is too. This means that the Chicago Time Zone equals the Universal Time Zone -6 hours.

Daylight Saving Time

What often confuses traders looking for markets to open, close or data to come out is the Daylight Saving Time (DST). DST are being implemented in USA at the 2. Sunday of March and the 1. Sunday of November every year at 2:00 AM.

In spring of each year the Chicago Time Zone (CTZ) is because of DST then UTC -5 hours and when CTZ moves back to Central Standard Time (CST) in November the time in Chicago is UTC -6 hours.

Coordinated Universal Time

You can view the current UTC time here

United States in the Central Time Zone

The following states in USA are placed entirely in the Central Time Zone:

Alabama
Arkansas
Illinois
Iowa
Louisiana
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Oklahoma
Wisconsin

Chicago and NYSE Chicago

NYSE Chicago is the name of the stock exchange in Chicago since 2019. The ticker code for NYSE Chicago is CHX. The Stock Exchange has a volume of around 200,000,000 according to Wikipedia.

Chicago as a city is well know around the World and it houses as of 2021 around 2,7 million inhabitants. According to Uphomes.com some of the characteristics of Chicago are that it is expensive to live there, you’ll need a car there, the weather is capricious and there’s always something to do there. In other words it make sense to become a good forex trader before perhaps moving to Chicago as housing is expensive, you need to buy a car and you can work from home when the weather is bad.

Check our Macro Forex Calendar out to see if anything big happens at the NYSE Chicago the next couple of weeks.