New York Stock Exchange tests views on round-the-clock trading
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The issue has become a hot topic in recent years, prompted in part by the 24/7 operation of cryptocurrency trading and the rise in retail investor activity first spurred by coronavirus pandemic lockdowns.
Stock exchanges have become something of a laggard in a world where other big markets, including US Treasuries, major currencies and leading stock index futures, can be traded around the clock from Monday to Friday.
Several retail brokers, including Robinhood and Interactive Brokers, now offer 24-hour weekday access to US stocks with trades either matched with their internal holdings, or conducted via a “dark pool” trading venue such as Blue Ocean, where shares are often traded with Asian retail investors in their daytime.
NYSE’s survey asked respondents whether they thought round-the-clock trading should take place at weekends as well as through a five-day week, how investors should be protected from price swings, and how respondents would staff any overnight session.
It also asked whether people agreed that “time spent thinking about overnight trading would be better spent on regular market hour trading”.
The survey comes as start-up 24 Exchange, backed by Steve Cohen’s Point72 hedge fund, is seeking SEC approval to launch the first round-the-clock exchange. The filing is the second attempt for 24X, which withdrew a proposal last year over operational and technical issues.
Institutional interest in overnight trading has been muted because of the relatively poor liquidity on offer and concerns around settlement risk, among other issues.
Current night owl offerings only allow retail traders to put in “limit” orders where they state the price at which they would buy or sell. If that is not met, the order expires, unfilled, the next morning.
“There’s demand for 24-hour trading, but it's not necessarily from the entire marketplace,” said one institutional broker, who warned that basic staffing could prove another thorny issue.
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