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Re:Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy by malloryerik on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @09:31PM (#15867149)
Most foreign exchange and derivatives exchanges are on 23.5 hours a day, except weekends.
Re:Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy by ganeshkrishnan on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @09:39PM (#15867182)
Only derivatives and forex. Stock is still office hours and out of regular hours (+-1 hour I think) is reserved for the big boys.
Re:Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy by quickthrower2 on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:10PM (#15867322)
Bitcoin is more akin to a Forex or Gold than Stock,
Re:Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy by aaavl2821 on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:24PM (#15867388)
Stock futures are 24 hours. I believe the vast majority of equity volume is in stock futures rather than stocks themselves. Institutional investors drive this volume
Re:Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy by ucha on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @11:16PM (#15867585)
Your three statements are false.
Re:Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy by zeusk on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @11:28PM (#15867626)
On notional value bases, he is probably right but we all know how the derivative guys like to lever up and hide it all under layers of synthetic securities.
Re:Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy by aaavl2821 on Thursday December 07, 2017 @01:01AM (#15867960)
was recalling info for stock indices rather than individual stocks.

stock index futures are 23 hours: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading-hours.html#equityIndex

stock volume is larger than futures (347B global avg daily volume vs 280 in jan 2016, not sure about now), but futures larger than ETFs (280 vs 88)

youll have to convince me that institutional investors dont drive futures volume, cant find data offhand but wont give you benefit of the doubt on that one :)

Re:Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy by ganeshkrishnan on Thursday December 07, 2017 @01:05AM (#15867976)
Not sure of other countries or brokers but I cannot trade stock futures out of trading hours either on Nasdaq or NYSE
Re:Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy by branchless on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:03PM (#15867289)
Nope. Investment banks are the main OTC for forex and they are shut weekends, as are major ECNs.

Something might be open that will change your money but there is no real liquidity on the weekend.

edit: do tell us hacker news instead of the downvotes...

Re:Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy by workthrowaway27 on Thursday December 07, 2017 @11:11AM (#15871267)
You're getting downvoted because the comment you're disagreeing with literally says "except weekends".
Re:Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy by branchless on Friday December 08, 2017 @07:14PM (#15883287)
It was changed. Also fx is down for less than 30 minutes.