Infosys (INFY) Trading Hours & Best Sessions 2024

INFY trades on the NASDAQ, which structures its day into three distinct windows. Pre-Market runs from 10:00 to 14:30 UTC — available to many retail participants since 2010 rule changes expanded electronic access, but volume here is thin and price gaps are common. The Regular session opens at 14:30 UTC and closes at 21:00 UTC; this is the primary window where institutional desks, algorithmic systems, and retail flow all converge. After-Hours extends from 21:00 to 01:00 UTC, catching reactions to earnings releases or macro news that drops post-close. Each session carries a distinct risk profile. Pre-market moves can look decisive but reverse sharply once the regular session opens and real liquidity floods in.

The highest-quality trading window for INFY sits between 14:30 and 16:30 UTC — that's 10:30–12:30 EST and 20:00–22:00 IST. The first two hours after the regular open consistently produce the day's tightest spreads and deepest order books, driven by the overlap of U.S. equity participants and any residual momentum from Indian market closes earlier in the day. A secondary window emerges around 19:30–21:00 UTC (15:30–17:00 EST), as the final hour before close sees a surge in institutional rebalancing and retail exits. Avoid initiating new positions between 17:00 and 19:00 UTC — the mid-session lull — where volume drops and price can drift without conviction. For traders in India tracking Infosys as both a domestic and U.S.-listed asset, the 20:00–22:00 IST window aligns neatly with the opening surge.

Spread behavior is the clearest signal of session quality. During the regular session core hours (14:30–16:30 UTC), INFY spreads on major brokers typically run from 0.01 to 0.03 USD per share — tight enough to make short-term strategies viable. Step into pre-market territory and those spreads can balloon to 0.10–0.25 USD, sometimes wider around earnings. After-hours spreads are similarly elevated, with liquidity providers pulling back and market makers widening their quotes to compensate for overnight risk. A 0.20 USD spread on a $18 stock is over 1% of price — a cost that silently kills setups with modest profit targets. Pulsar Terminal displays real-time spread data directly on your MetaTrader 5 panel, making it straightforward to spot when INFY spreads widen beyond acceptable thresholds before you commit to a trade.