Fifteen holidays in 2023 & six long weekends.
Full-time trading is mentally draining, and taking occasional breaks to refresh is important.
Here’s the market holiday calendar for 2023 so that you can plan your holidays in advance 
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Let there be sun everyday, let there be market everyday 
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Hello friends, I am sharing the List of Trading Holidays for “NSE Stocks, Futures and Options” Segment, that I manually preprepared by using the information from NSE Website. The data range for this holidays list is from 1 Jan 2016 to 31 Dec 2023, covering a period of 8 years.
Here is the list -
26-Jan-2016
7-Mar-2016
24-Mar-2016
25-Mar-2016
14-Apr-2016
15-Apr-2016
19-Apr-2016
6-Jul-2016
15-Aug-2016
5-Sep-2016
13-Sep-2016
11-Oct-2016
12-Oct-2016
31-Oct-2016
14-Nov-2016
26-Jan-2017
24-Feb-2017
13-Mar-2017
4-Apr-2017
14-Apr-2017
1-May-2017
26-Jun-2017
15-Aug-2017
25-Aug-2017
2-Oct-2017
20-Oct-2017
25-Dec-2017
26-Jan-2018
13-Feb-2018
2-Mar-2018
29-Mar-2018
30-Mar-2018
1-May-2018
15-Aug-2018
22-Aug-2018
13-Sep-2018
20-Sep-2018
2-Oct-2018
18-Oct-2018
8-Nov-2018
23-Nov-2018
25-Dec-2018
4-Mar-2019
21-Mar-2019
17-Apr-2019
19-Apr-2019
29-Apr-2019
1-May-2019
5-Jun-2019
12-Aug-2019
15-Aug-2019
2-Sep-2019
10-Sep-2019
2-Oct-2019
8-Oct-2019
21-Oct-2019
28-Oct-2019
12-Nov-2019
25-Dec-2019
21-Feb-2020
10-Mar-2020
2-Apr-2020
6-Apr-2020
10-Apr-2020
14-Apr-2020
1-May-2020
25-May-2020
2-Oct-2020
16-Nov-2020
30-Nov-2020
25-Dec-2020
26-Jan-2021
11-Mar-2021
29-Mar-2021
2-Apr-2021
14-Apr-2021
21-Apr-2021
13-May-2021
21-Jul-2021
19-Aug-2021
10-Sep-2021
15-Oct-2021
5-Nov-2021
19-Nov-2021
26-Jan-2022
1-Mar-2022
18-Mar-2022
14-Apr-2022
15-Apr-2022
3-May-2022
9-Aug-2022
15-Aug-2022
31-Aug-2022
5-Oct-2022
26-Oct-2022
8-Nov-2022
26-Jan-2023
7-Mar-2023
30-Mar-2023
4-Apr-2023
7-Apr-2023
14-Apr-2023
1-May-2023
28-Jun-2023
15-Aug-2023
19-Sep-2023
2-Oct-2023
24-Oct-2023
14-Nov-2023
27-Nov-2023
25-Dec-2023
Please note that 1-Feb-2020 - was a SATURDAY, other then that, all above trading sessions were normal WEEKDAYS.
Another easy way of testing, if your database has got the data for all the trading sessions or not, is to count the number of unique days for which the data is present in your database. The number of trading session should match this list -
2016 - 247
2017 - 248
2018 - 246
2019 - 245
2020 - 252
2021 - 248
2022 - 248
2023 - 246
I have included the trading session that happens on “DIWALI - LAXMI PUJAN*” day in the above list.
If you want to exclude it from your database, because very less trading happens on that day and it is not necessary to include it into the Historical Backtesting, then please make use of the following list to exclude those trading sessions -
DIWALI - LAXMI PUJAN* Trading Session Dates -
30-Oct-2016
19-Oct-2017
7-Nov-2018
27-Oct-2019
14-Nov-2020
4-Nov-2021
24-Oct-2022
12-Nov-2023
If you find any errors in the above lists, then please kindly let me know, so that I can make the necessary corrections and share the updated list.
Please share these lists into any trading groups, where it could be useful for other friends.
Thanks and regards