TradingView Automation Holiday Trading Schedule Guide

Protect your futures strategy from market closures. Master TradingView automation for holiday schedules to filter alerts and prevent failed orders on the CME.

TradingView automation adjusts to holiday trading schedules by monitoring exchange hours and halting execution during market closures. Most major futures exchanges follow modified schedules during U.S. federal holidays, with some markets closing entirely while others operate with shortened sessions. Automation platforms like ClearEdge Trading typically respect exchange-specific holiday calendars to prevent failed orders during closed periods.

Key Takeaways

U.S. futures markets close or operate reduced hours on nine major holidays annually, requiring automation rule adjustments
CME Group markets typically close at 1:00 PM ET the day before major holidays and reopen Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM ET
TradingView alerts fire regardless of market status—your automation platform must handle holiday filtering
Electronic futures markets like ES and NQ follow different holiday schedules than stock markets, remaining open when equity markets close

What Is the Holiday Trading Schedule for Futures?

U.S. futures exchanges observe nine federal holidays with modified trading hours or complete closures. CME Group, which operates ES, NQ, GC, and CL futures, typically closes at 1:00 PM ET the business day before the holiday and reopens Sunday evening at the standard 6:00 PM ET time. These closures differ from stock market schedules, where exchanges may close entirely on days when futures markets operate partial sessions.

The specific holidays affecting futures trading include New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Each holiday follows a specific pattern based on whether it falls on a weekday or weekend. When a holiday falls on Saturday, markets typically observe the closure on Friday. When it falls on Sunday, markets close on Monday.

Exchange Holiday Schedule: The official calendar of full closures and modified trading hours published by each futures exchange. CME Group releases this calendar annually, typically in Q4 for the following year, allowing traders to plan automation around known market closures.HolidayTypical Closure PatternImpact on ES/NQNew Year's DayFull closure Jan 1No trading until Sunday 6 PM ETGood FridayEarly close 1:00 PM ETNo evening sessionMemorial DayFull closure last Monday MayClosed all day MondayIndependence DayFull closure July 4 or observedClosed all day, reopens SundayThanksgivingEarly close 1:00 PM ETNo Thursday evening sessionChristmasFull closure Dec 25 or observedClosed all day, reopens Sunday

The 2025 CME Group holiday calendar shows regular trading hours for most of the year, with the nine standard U.S. holidays representing the primary disruptions. Traders using automation must verify their platform's holiday handling well before these dates to avoid order rejections or unexpected behavior.

How Does TradingView Automation Handle Holiday Schedules?

TradingView itself does not automatically suppress alerts during exchange closures—your Pine Script indicators continue to evaluate and fire alerts regardless of market status. This means your automation platform must include holiday filtering logic to prevent attempting trades when markets are closed. Without this filtering, alerts trigger but orders fail at the broker level, creating potential confusion in your trade logs.

Most professional automation platforms maintain an internal calendar matching CME Group and other exchange schedules. When an alert arrives during a closed period, the platform either queues it for the next session or discards it based on your configuration. The specific behavior depends on your strategy design—some approaches require immediate execution and should skip holiday periods entirely, while others may accept delayed fills.

Alert Filtering: The process of evaluating TradingView webhook alerts against current market status before sending orders to your broker. Effective filtering checks exchange hours, holiday schedules, and sometimes economic calendar events to prevent execution during inappropriate periods.

Platforms like ClearEdge Trading include built-in holiday calendars that update automatically. You can typically configure whether to queue orders during closures or skip them entirely. For most intraday strategies, skipping is appropriate since market context changes during extended closures. For swing strategies operating on daily timeframes, queuing until the next open may preserve your strategy logic.

Your webhook payload from TradingView does not contain exchange status information. The automation platform determines market status by checking the current timestamp against its holiday calendar and regular trading hours schedule. This check happens in milliseconds before order transmission, ensuring you don't waste broker API calls on guaranteed rejections.

Major Holiday Impacts on Futures Automation

Thanksgiving and Christmas create the most significant disruptions for automated futures trading. Thanksgiving closes markets at 1:00 PM ET on Thursday with no evening session, then Black Friday typically operates on a modified schedule. Christmas closures depend on which day of the week December 25 falls, sometimes creating three-day weekends with extended market closures from Friday through Monday morning.

Fourth of July closures present unique challenges when the holiday falls midweek. Markets close entirely on July 4, then reopen with potentially reduced liquidity as many institutional traders extend the holiday. Automation strategies relying on normal volume patterns may underperform in the sessions immediately following this holiday due to thinner order books.

Good Friday affects only U.S. futures markets—international markets may operate normally, creating cross-market arbitrage opportunities that automation must account for. If your strategy trades both U.S. and international futures, you need separate holiday calendars for each exchange. CME Group observes Good Friday, but Eurex and other European exchanges may not.

Pre-Holiday Automation Checklist

☐ Verify your platform's holiday calendar matches CME Group's official schedule
☐ Configure alert filtering to skip or queue based on strategy timeframe
☐ Review open positions and consider manual closure before extended holidays
☐ Test your automation's behavior during the prior year's equivalent holiday
☐ Set position size limits lower for the session before early closures

Early closure days like Thanksgiving at 1:00 PM ET compress normal trading patterns into fewer hours. Opening Range strategies must adjust their timeframes—a typical 30-minute OR setup starting at 9:30 AM has less context when the session ends at 1:00 PM rather than 4:00 PM. Your automation should either skip these days or use modified parameters.

Setting Up Holiday Filters in Your Automation

Implementing holiday filters requires both calendar data and execution logic. Most platforms provide a settings panel where you enable holiday observance and select which exchanges' calendars to follow. For multi-instrument strategies trading ES, GC, and CL simultaneously, you need composite calendar logic that respects closures across all three contracts.

Your TradingView Pine Script code cannot directly check exchange holiday status. Instead, structure your automation workflow to handle filtering at the platform level. The webhook alert fires, reaches your automation platform, passes through the holiday filter, and either proceeds to your broker or gets rejected. This architecture keeps your Pine Script simpler and centralizes calendar maintenance.

When configuring holiday behavior, consider your strategy's holding period. Intraday strategies closing all positions by end of day should skip holiday sessions entirely—there's no benefit to attempting execution when your normal market patterns don't exist. Swing strategies holding multi-day positions might queue orders to execute at the next open, maintaining your entry/exit logic across the closure.

Queue vs. Skip Logic: Queue stores the alert and attempts execution at the next market open, preserving trade intent. Skip discards the alert entirely, treating the holiday period as a trading blackout. Most intraday automation uses skip logic while longer-timeframe strategies may prefer queue.

For traders using TradingView automation platforms, the holiday filter sits between webhook receipt and broker API transmission. You can typically view filtered alerts in your platform's activity log, confirming that your calendar settings are working correctly. Test this by manually firing a TradingView alert during a known closed period and verifying it appears in your filtered/skipped log rather than as a live order.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Do TradingView alerts stop firing during market holidays?

No, TradingView alerts continue evaluating and firing based on your Pine Script conditions regardless of exchange status. Your automation platform must filter these alerts based on the holiday calendar to prevent order attempts during closed markets. This separation keeps your indicator code simpler while centralizing market status logic.

2. What happens if my automation tries to place an order during a holiday closure?

Your broker's API will reject the order with an error code indicating the market is closed. The order never reaches the exchange and won't fill. Most automation platforms log these rejections so you can review what would have traded, but properly configured holiday filtering prevents these attempts entirely.

3. How far in advance should I update holiday settings for the new year?

Update your automation platform's holiday calendar in December for the following year when CME Group releases the official schedule. Most platforms auto-update if you're using their built-in calendars, but manual verification is best practice. Check again in early January to catch any last-minute adjustments.

4. Can I override holiday filters for specific strategies?

Yes, most platforms allow per-strategy holiday settings. If you run both intraday ES strategies that should skip holidays and weekly swing strategies that should queue orders, you can configure different filtering behavior for each. Review your platform's strategy settings panel for these options.

5. Do international futures exchanges follow U.S. holiday schedules?

No, each exchange follows its own country's holiday calendar. Eurex observes German holidays, SGX follows Singapore holidays, and CME Group follows U.S. holidays. If trading multiple exchanges, your automation needs separate calendar logic for each to avoid attempting trades when specific markets are closed.

Conclusion

Holiday trading schedules require deliberate automation configuration to prevent order failures during market closures. TradingView alerts fire continuously regardless of exchange status, making platform-level holiday filtering essential for reliable execution. By implementing proper calendar checks and understanding the nine annual U.S. market holidays, you avoid unnecessary order rejections and maintain clean trade logs.

Review your automation platform's holiday settings before each major closure, verify the calendar matches CME Group's official schedule, and test filtering behavior during known closed periods. For detailed guidance on connecting TradingView alerts to brokers with proper market hour handling, see our complete TradingView automation guide.

Want to automate with built-in holiday calendars? Explore ClearEdge Trading's no-code futures automation with automatic exchange schedule handling.

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Disclaimer: This article is for educational and informational purposes only. It does not constitute trading advice, investment advice, or any recommendation to buy or sell futures contracts. ClearEdge Trading is a software platform that executes trades based on your predefined rules—it does not provide trading signals, strategies, or personalized recommendations.

Risk Warning: Futures trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. You could lose more than your initial investment. Past performance of any trading system, methodology, or strategy is not indicative of future results. Before trading futures, you should carefully consider your financial situation and risk tolerance. Only trade with capital you can afford to lose.

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