For the NYSE and the NASDAQ, normal market hours are 9:30am-4:00pm, with premarket and after hours trading "extending" those hours from 4:00am-8:00pm.
I get that the way orders are processed is a little different in off-hours trading, but for high-liquidity stocks, why does this matter? What's the point of abiding by the 9:30am-4:00pm hours when trading is nearly just as possible outside of those hours?
As far as I've experienced, it's not very difficult to get to the point that you can trade in the off hours. So why is volume/liquidity so much drastically lower if almost everyone has access to it?
Submitted September 13, 2017 at 09:34AM by jaylow6188 http://ift.tt/2xy0W88
