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In business, the trading day or regular trading hours (RTH) is the time span that a stock exchange is open, as opposed to electronic or extended trading hours (ETH). For example, the New York Stock Exchange is, as of 2020, open from 9:30 AM Eastern Time to 4:00 PM Eastern Time. Trading days are usually Monday through Friday.
Since the 1980s, the open outcry systems have been steadily replaced by electronic trading systems (such as CATS and Globex).. Floor trading is the meeting of traders or stockbrokers at a specific venue referred to as a trading floor or pit to buy and sell financial instruments using open outcry method to communicate with each other.
While similar in appearance to a bar chart, each candlestick represents four important pieces of information for that day: open and close in the thick body, and high and low in the "candle wick". Being densely packed with information, it tends to represent trading patterns over short periods of time, often a few days or a few trading sessions.
Traders looking to trade at any hour of the day now have the ability to swap stocks 24 hours a day during the week. A handful of brokers offer all-day trading, also known as overnight trading, so ...
The foreign currency market (“forex”) has a lot in common with the stock market. Both are speculative ways of investing, meaning that they offer higher risks and higher rewards than many other ...
Extended-hours trading (or electronic trading hours, ETH) is stock trading that happens either before or after the trading day regular trading hours (RTH) of a stock exchange, i.e., pre-market trading or after-hours trading. [1] After-hours trading is the name for buying and selling of securities when the major markets are closed. [2]
An open-high-low-close chart (OHLC) is a type of chart typically used in technical analysis to illustrate movements in the price of a financial instrument over time. Each vertical line on the chart shows the price range (the highest and lowest prices) over one unit of time, e.g., one day or one hour.
After-hours trading refers to the buying and selling of stocks outside of the standard trading hours of 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern Time (ET). This form of trading occurs on electronic ...