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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
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Re:Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy by ucha on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @11:16PM (#15867585)
Your three statements are false.
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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.
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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 :)

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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
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