24 hour stock trading

Are you interested in 24 hour stock trading? Sure, you can do that if you can handle sleeping for three hours or less.

There are a lot of equity exchanges in the world. If you want, you can do trades almost 24 hour a day. You can start with Australia and Tokyo in Asia, then move to Singapore, later trade in London or Frankfurt in Europe and finish on the U.S. markets.

I personally prefer to trade US markets as they are most liquid in the world. They also offer possibility to trade International stocks that are normally traded on local exchanges described below.

I also have little problem with time zones as time difference with Asian exchanges is quite big for me. But you can find it better to trade there, so you can check their opening hours below.

Here is list of the most important markets in the world. To learn how to convert local trading hours to your local time, you can use Time_and_Date.com server. These market hours are based on a Monday – Friday schedule.

Asia & Pacific stock market hours and exchanges

The Asian markets or currencies are markets that gain a popularity between traders and investors.

• Hong Kong Exchange (HKSE),
  trading hours from 09:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
• Tokyo Exchange (TSE),
  trading hours 9:00 am – 11:00 a.m., 12:30 – 3:00 p.m. JST
• Singapore Exchange (SGX),
  market hours 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. SST
• Australian Exchange (ASX),
  market hours 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. , Sydney Time
• National Stock Exchange of India (NSE),
  market is open : 9.15 a.m. – 3.30 p.m.
• Shanghai Exchange (SSE),
  market is open: equities 09:30-11:30 a.m., 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m. -3:30 p.m.

Europe, Middle East & Africa stock market trading hours

European Exchanges

• London Exchange (LSE),trading hours 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. GMT
• Frankfurt Exchange (FSE),trading hours 9.00 a.m. to .8.00 p.m. CET
• Italian Exchange (BIT),trading hours 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. CET
• OMX Exchanges (OMX),Northern Europe,market hours vary, but typically 09:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. local time
• Moscow Stock Exchange (MICEX),market hours 10.15 a.m. – 7.05 p.m. local time

Middle Eastern Exchanges

• Dubai Stock Exchange (DIFX),
  market hours 11.45 a.m. – 5 p.m. (7.45 a.m. – 1 p.m. GMT)

African Exchanges

• Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE),
  market hours 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

American stock market hours

American Exchanges

• American Exchange (AMEX),
  trading hours 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST
• New York Stock Exchange (NYSE),
  trading hours 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST
• NASDAQ ,
  trading hours 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST
• Toronto (TSX),
  trading hours 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST
• A bolsa de Brasil .. Bovespa (Sao Paulo),
  trading hours 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., BRT

So I think that there is always some stock exchange opened and it is possible to do 24 hour stock trading.