after-hours trading Definition

after-hours trading

Definition

The practice of buying and selling securities during a period of time when the major markets are officially closed. Once reserved for institutional investors, individual investors may now participate. Stocks are traded after hours on ECNs, which match buyers and seller with a computer system in order to execute trades.

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after-hours trading is ...
... part of the Trading subject.

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