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Most foreign exchange and derivatives exchanges are on 23.5 hours a day, except weekends.
by malloryerik 9y ago
Most foreign exchange and derivatives exchanges are on 23.5 hours a day, except weekends.
- ganeshkrishnan 9y agoOnly derivatives and forex. Stock is still office hours and out of regular hours (+-1 hour I think) is reserved for the big boys.
- quickthrower2 9y agoBitcoin is more akin to a Forex or Gold than Stock,
- aaavl2821 9y agoStock futures are 24 hours. I believe the vast majority of equity volume is in stock futures rather than stocks themselves. Institutional investors drive this volume
- ucha 9y agoYour three statements are false.
- zeusk 9y agoOn notional value bases, he is probably right but we all know how the derivative guys like to lever up and hide it all under layers of synthetic securities.
- aaavl2821 9y agowas recalling info for stock indices rather than individual stocks. stock index futures are 23 hours: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading-hours.html#equityIndex http://www.cmegroup.com/trading-hours.html#equityIndex stock volume is larger than futures (347B global avg daily volume vs 280 in jan 2016, not sure about now), but futures larger than ETFs (280 vs 88) youll have to convince me that institutional investors dont drive futures volume, cant find data offhand but wont give you benefit of the doubt on that one :)
- ganeshkrishnan 9y agoNot sure of other countries or brokers but I cannot trade stock futures out of trading hours either on Nasdaq or NYSE
- branchless 9y agoNope. Investment banks are the main OTC for forex and they are shut weekends, as are major ECNs. Something might be open that will change your money but there is no real liquidity on the weekend. edit: do tell us hacker news instead of the downvotes...
- workthrowaway27 9y agoYou're getting downvoted because the comment you're disagreeing with literally says "except weekends".
- branchless 9y agoIt was changed. Also fx is down for less than 30 minutes.