Monday, November 7, 2011

Stock Market - Trading Hours

Trading Hours

Regular market hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern Time. Extended hours trading is also available for NASDAQ National Market and Listed Securities on normal market days and half-day market holidays, but no trading, regular or extended hours, is available on market holidays.

Following are the regular and extended trading hours for U.S. markets:

Normal Market Day

7 to 9:28 a.m. ET Pre-Market Hours
9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET Regular Market Hours
4:02 to 8 p.m. ET After-Hours Trading

Half-Day Market Holiday

7 to 9:28 a.m. ET Pre-Market Hours
9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET Half-Day Market Hours
1:02 to 5 p.m. ET After-Hours Trading

Market Holiday

Pre-Market, Regular and After-Hours Trading are unavailable.

There are nine market holidays in a year. They are:

New Year's Day
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Presidents' Day
Good Friday
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day

Market half-day holidays may include July 3 or 5, the day after Thanksgiving and/or Christmas Eve, depending on how the calendar falls in a given year.

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