remember futures - the ES is a 23 hour market see the attached chart here for an idea of the 'out of hours' action: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=226295&perpage=6&pagenumber=2 mostly US: http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/us-economic-calendar.aspx world: http://www.forexfactory.com/ 25 year charts: http://www.barchart.com/futures/