# Define Trading Hours

**Trading hours** define the days and time of day that an **Instrument** is traded. For most instruments the trading hours may be assigned automatically by MotiveWave™. When you create your workspace, MotiveWave™ will create a default set of **Trading Hours**. Trading hours can be created/modified via ***Configure > Settings > General > Trading Hours.***

You can edit the built-in trading hours by double-clicking on them. To revert to the default hours, select the modified hours in the list and press the **Delete** key.

You can also create your own trading hours and override the instrument settings.

The **Trading Hours** dialog will appear when you click the add button (‘+’ icon) above.

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#### General Tab <a href="#general-tab" id="general-tab"></a>

If an exchange is chosen, then the hours defined in this dialog will be used as the default trading hours for instruments on that exchange. You can assign trading hours to multiple exchanges.

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#### Hours Tab <a href="#hours-tab" id="hours-tab"></a>

The **Hours** tab specifies trading hours which provide the same daily hours across multiple days (e.g. Monday – Friday, Sunday – Saturday etc.).

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To assign specific days and times for your trading hours, select **Custom** under the **Days** section.

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#### Intraday Bars <a href="#intraday-bars" id="intraday-bars"></a>

You can also specify a bar build method for intraday bars (overriding the global default) via the **Intraday Bars** tab. This bar build method will be applied to all the instruments on that exchange.

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The **Trading Hours** for an instrument can be assigned from the **Advanced** tab of the **Instrument** dialog. This dialog can be accessed from the **Manage Instruments** dialog (*Configure > Instruments* from the Console menu bar) or from the context menu of a chart (right click on a chart and choose *Edit Instrument*).

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