One euro was worth 0.9366 Swiss francs at the close of the Tuesday, 6 October 2026 session (EUR/CHF), up 0.44% on the session; the other way round, one franc was worth 1.0677 euro. Over one year the rate is up 0.62%, between a low of 0.8981 on 9 March 2026 and a high of 0.9486 on 30 September 2026, a spread of 505 pips.
Last session: 6 October 2026, bid price, source Dukascopy. This page shows a dated close and statistics computed over one year of sessions, not a real-time quote.
To tie these numbers to your own trading: the lesson on the ATR, where to place a stop loss and how to calculate a position size.
Daily close (line), range between each session's high and low (band), high and low of the year (dots), last close (dashed). Bid rates, in Swiss francs per euro, from 6 October 2025 to 6 October 2026.
Out of the 262 sessions of the year, 52.3% closed above their open.
A session's range is the distance between its high and its low. Over the last 20 sessions, EUR/CHF covered on average 0.0048 franc, or 48 pips, that is 0.51% of its opening rate; 36 pips (0.38%) over 90 sessions and 35 pips (0.38%) over one year. It is the same idea as the ATR, computed here on the daily candle without smoothing opening gaps.
A pip is, on this pair, the fourth decimal place, or 0.0001 franc. On a standard lot of 100,000 euros, as defined in the instrument sheet at RoboMarkets, it is worth 0.0001 × 100,000 = CHF 10. What it changes for a stop, as a worked example and not a recommendation: a stop placed at half the average range of the last 90 sessions is worth 18 pips, that is CHF 180 of risk on a standard lot and CHF 1.80 on the minimum size of 0.01 lot (1,000 euros). To risk only CHF 100 with that stop, the position cannot exceed 55,556 euros, or 0.556 lot.
For someone paid in francs who spends in euros, the same figure reads differently: CHF 5,000 were worth €5,338 at the closing rate. A move of one average session range (36 pips) shifts that sum by about €20; between the year's low (0.8981, when they were worth €5,567) and its high (0.9486, €5,271), the gap reaches €296. It measures what moved over one year, not when to exchange.
The full reasoning, with the percentage of capital and the reward-to-risk ratio, is in calculating position size and where to place your stop loss.
The three most active hours are highlighted, the three quietest greyed out. Tallest bar: 0.133%.
Average range of each UTC hour, as a percentage of the hour's opening price, over 1,582 hourly candles from 7 July 2026 to 7 October 2026. The three most active hours are 7:00, 14:00 and 21:00 UTC, that is 8:00, 15:00 and 22:00 in London and 3:00, 10:00 and 17:00 in New York. The three quietest: 3:00, 4:00 and 23:00 UTC, that is 4:00, 5:00 and 0:00 in London and 23:00, 0:00 and 19:00 in New York.
Reading by session: Asia (0:00 to 7:00 UTC) gives an average hourly range of 0.053%, London (7:00 to 12:00 UTC) 0.095%, and New York (12:00 to 21:00 UTC), which overlaps the end of London and the release of US data, 0.081%.
Two monetary policy appointments fall within the European day: the Swiss National Bank publishes its quarterly assessment at 9:30 Swiss time (SNB calendar), and the European Central Bank comments on its decisions at a press conference starting at 14:45 CET (ECB, decisions of 10 September 2026). The most active hours found above, that is 8:00, 15:00 and 22:00 in London and 3:00, 10:00 and 17:00 in New York, are to be read with those two times in mind, and with the caveat made below on the 21:00 UTC candle.
| Day | Average range | Up sessions | Sessions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 0.37% | 56.6% | 53 |
| Tuesday | 0.37% | 54.7% | 53 |
| Wednesday | 0.37% | 48.1% | 52 |
| Thursday | 0.40% | 48.1% | 52 |
| Friday | 0.37% | 53.8% | 52 |
Over the 262 sessions of the year, average range and share of up sessions, day by day. Thursday was the widest day, Monday the one that most often closed higher. This is an observation on one year of data, not a rule: next year can reverse the order.
Change from the open of the first day to the close of the last day of each month. Best month: March 2026 (+2.03%). Worst month: January 2026 (-1.43%).
Several forces recur in the reference documents, none of them sufficient on its own. Nothing here is a forecast or advice.
The Swiss National Bank steers the franc through its policy rate and, when needed, through purchases or sales of foreign currency. At its monetary policy assessment of 24 September 2026, it left the policy rate at 0% and said it was willing to be active in the foreign exchange market as necessary; its Annual Report 2025 puts its net foreign currency purchases at CHF 5.2 billion over 2025, after CHF 1.2 billion in 2024, and states that it does not focus on individual currency pairs but on the overall currency situation.
On the euro side, the European Central Bank sets three key interest rates: on 10 September 2026 it raised them by 25 basis points, taking the deposit facility rate to 2.50% with effect from 16 September 2026 (ECB, key interest rates). The gap between the two currencies' rates shows up in the swap on a position held overnight, which each broker sets from that differential (Dukascopy rollover policy).
The franc is a safe-haven currency in the measured sense of the term. An SNB working paper (Ranaldo and Söderlind, 2007) shows, on data from 1993 to 2006, that the franc appreciates against the dollar and against the other major currencies when US equities fall and when currency markets become more volatile; a second paper (Fink, Frei and Gloede, 2020) decomposes daily EUR/CHF moves from 2006 to 2018 and finds that the global risk factor is the one that weighs the most, especially when the risk environment worsens, whereas it mattered little for this pair before the euro area debt crisis.
The SNB has already put a floor under this pair. On 6 September 2011, judging that the massive overvaluation of the franc posed an acute threat to the Swiss economy and carried a risk of deflation, it set a minimum exchange rate of CHF 1.20 per euro, which it said it would enforce with the utmost determination, prepared to buy foreign currency in unlimited quantities. On 15 January 2015, it discontinued that minimum rate and lowered the sight deposit rate to -0.75%, judging that the overvaluation had decreased and that the monetary policies of the major currency areas were diverging more and more, while announcing that it would remain active in the foreign exchange market if necessary.
Inflation is not the same on both sides of the border. The SNB, which equates price stability with a rise in the Swiss consumer price index of less than 2% per year (monetary policy strategy), recorded inflation of 0.8% in August 2026, up from 0.6% in May (assessment of 24 September 2026); in the euro area, annual inflation was 3.2% in August 2026, against 2.0% a year earlier (Eurostat, 17 September 2026).
Tradoshi's backtesting module, in beta, replays a market candle by candle without showing what comes next, spread, slippage and commissions included, and it is included from the Pro plan. It is the most direct way to check whether a stop rule based on range holds over the past year. To understand the method first: what is backtesting and backtesting stocks, forex and futures.
The journal does the other half of the work: it measures your own trades on EUR/CHF, their real R against the stop you placed and the hours when you win or lose, on your executed orders rather than on averages. Every statistic is defined in the glossary.
0.9366 Swiss francs per euro at the close of the 6 October 2026 session, Dukascopy bid rate, up 0.44% versus the previous close. This page does not show a real-time quote: it shows the last dated close and statistics computed over one year.
The inverse of the rate: at 0.9366 francs per euro, one franc was worth 1.0677 euro at the close of 6 October 2026. It is a calculation on the market bid rate, not the rate a bank or an exchange bureau applies.
On average 36 pips (0.0036 franc) between a session's high and low over the last 90 sessions, or 0.38% of the opening rate; 35 pips (0.38%) over one year. On CHF 5,000 converted into euros, such a move represents about €20.
On the hourly candles from 7 July 2026 to 7 October 2026, the widest UTC hours were 7:00, 14:00 and 21:00, that is 8:00, 15:00 and 22:00 in London and 3:00, 10:00 and 17:00 in New York. The quietest: 3:00, 4:00 and 23:00 UTC.
A pip is the fourth decimal place, or 0.0001 franc. At RoboMarkets, a standard lot of EUR/CHF is 100,000 euros and the minimum size is 0.01 lot, or 1,000 euros; a pip is therefore worth CHF 10 per standard lot, and a 18-pip stop commits CHF 180 of risk on one lot. Your platform may define other sizes.
From Dukascopy historical candles, bid price, UTC sessions Monday to Friday. The calculation dates from 7 October 2026 and the last session taken into account is 6 October 2026; the figures are recomputed at each rebuild of the site.