Extended hours trading is stock trading that occurs outside the traditional trading hours of the major exchanges, such as the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market. Extended hours trading is happening for almost the length as traditional hours trading. It can be very volatile when there is news released on the company extended-hours. Since 1985 the traditional trading hours have been from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

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  • Extended hours trading is stock trading that occurs outside the traditional trading hours of the major exchanges, such as the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market. Extended hours trading is happening for almost the length as traditional hours trading. It can be very volatile when there is news released on the company extended-hours. Since 1985 the traditional trading hours have been from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Trading outside these regular hours is not a phenomenon that started in the past 5 years, but it has generally been limited to high net-worth investors and institutions, such as mutual funds. The emergence of private trading systems, known as electronic communication networks, or ECNs, that facilitate extended hours trading has allowed individual investors to participate in extended-hours trading. Extended hours trading on a day with a session that is not interfered with is from 4 a.m. - 9:30 and 3:59 - 8 p.m. EST. Extended hours trades do not necessarily carry over to the stock market. To find out whether it carries over to the opening bell extended hours traders should check with a brokerage firm to determine how it handles orders placed in the extended-hours markets according to the Investing Online Resource Center. In some cases, an extended hours trader's extended-hours order may only be a current order during that specific extended-hours trading session; in others, depending on extended hours traders brokerage firm's protocol, an order could be live in the traditional trading and extended -hours trading sessions. Extended-hours trading is abbreviated frequently on chat rooms as AH. That has led people to jokingly refer to extended-hours trading as "amateur hour", as the people who trade during the time that extended hours trading is active, are mostly small retail traders and not institutions or banks, and, barring material news, it frequently does not reflect how trading will be the next morning. Trading may also occur before the traditional trading hours, but that is known as pre-market trading. Pre-market trading is security trading between banks and share dealers, not requiring and not using exchange control, before the opening of the traditional stock market session. Pre-Market trading is trading certain NASDAQ and Listed securities through Electronic Communications Networks (ECNs) right before the traditional trading session. Pre-Market trading is from 4:00am - 9:30am Eastern, Monday through Friday on days when the market is open. Trading through Fidelity, pre-market trading is from 7:00am - 9:15am EST, Monday through Friday.
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  • Extended hours trading is stock trading that occurs outside the traditional trading hours of the major exchanges, such as the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market. Extended hours trading is happening for almost the length as traditional hours trading. It can be very volatile when there is news released on the company extended-hours. Since 1985 the traditional trading hours have been from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
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  • Extended hours trading
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