A Night Owl's Guide to After-Hours Trading: Update
Online investors don't have to wait any longer to get in on after-hours trading.
Although it looked like extended trading was going to get held up by bricks-and-mortar bureaucracy, in the past few weeks online brokerages -- and even one small regional stock exchange -- have gotten things moving. Wednesday, MarketXT, formerly Eclipse Trading, announced that it would be offering extended trading hours to clients of Dreyfus and Discover, bringing retail investors further into the after-hours hubbub. From 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. EDT, MarketXT will host trading for the top 100 S&P stocks and the top 100 Nasdaq stocks.| Online Trading's After-Hours Club | ||
| Brokerage | Platform | Details |
| Datek Online | Island ECN | 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., effective Sept. 15. Nasdaq stocks, limit orders only. |
| Dreyfus Brokerage, Discover Brokerage | MarketXT Trading | 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Monday to Thursday, effective Aug. 25. Top 100 S&P and Nasdaq issues, limit orders only. |
| E*Trade | Instinet | 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., planned for September. Nasdaq and NYSE stocks. Limit orders only. |
| TD Waterhouse | Island ECN | Not available; postponed to October. Nasdaq stocks, limit orders only. |
| Fidelity, DLJdirect, Charles Schwab | Revamped RediBook ECN | Still in development. |
| Wit Capital | Proprietary system | 6 or 7 p.m. to 10 p.m, planned for November. Nasdaq- and NYSE-listed stocks, limit orders. |
| CyberBroker | Island, Nextrade, MarketXT, others | 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., effective September. NYSE and Nasdaq stocks, limit orders only. |
| Onlinetradinginc.com | Nextrade ECN | 24 hours, effective April. Nasdaq stocks, limit orders only. Or from 5:15 p.m. to 9 a.m., NYSE-listed stocks, limit orders only. Also offers Instinet before and after market opens. |
| Stock Exchanges | |
| Chicago Stock Exchange | 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., effective Oct. 1. All S&P 100 and Nasdaq 100 issues, and 50-100 of the most active non-S&P 100 and non-Nasdaq 100 issues, limit orders only. |
| Nasdaq | Not committing to a timeline. |
| NYSE | Not until well into 2000. |
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