While I've not specifically considered stocks with or without activity during post and pre market, I'm coming around to resent that trading period which, at times, dramatically impacts a stock price. Examples are many, from AMZN's recent 300 drop in post market trading, BABA's significant climbs and drops at 4 am, etc.
I'm a big proponent of 24/7 trading, to give those in other time zones the opportunity to trade just the same. We'd see big shifts in trading activity, starting with East/West coasts but also from Asian time zones, from India to Japan, where most of the world resides and where gambling is a societal addiction.
However, today's trading hours are left to brokerages' discretion and there doesn't seem to be a rule as to which stocks are available to trade off market hours.
While I continue to trade some stocks off hours, I'm becoming more careful to pick volatile stocks that I can buy and sell during my broker's operating hours.
Any thoughts on that?
I'm a big proponent of 24/7 trading, to give those in other time zones the opportunity to trade just the same. We'd see big shifts in trading activity, starting with East/West coasts but also from Asian time zones, from India to Japan, where most of the world resides and where gambling is a societal addiction.
However, today's trading hours are left to brokerages' discretion and there doesn't seem to be a rule as to which stocks are available to trade off market hours.
While I continue to trade some stocks off hours, I'm becoming more careful to pick volatile stocks that I can buy and sell during my broker's operating hours.
Any thoughts on that?
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