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Pre-market, after hours and overnight

Outside regular hours, Edge names the session a US stock is trading in: pre-market, after hours or overnight. See it in the Order Ticket, on the chart and in Market Hours.

A five-minute NVDA chart. A light tint sits behind the candles traded outside regular hours, and the regular session stays clear.

What it is

US stocks trade outside the regular session too: before the open, after the close, and through the night on their 24/5 line. Edge now names the session a US stock is in, wherever you look at it: Pre-market, After hours or Overnight.

A price quoted at night is not the regular session's close. Knowing which session a price comes from tells you what you are looking at.

During regular hours nothing is added. No label means the regular session.

How to use it

  1. Open Market Hours from the market pill at the bottom right of Edge and choose the US row. It shows whether the market is open, the regular session's opening and closing times, and when Pre-market, After hours and Overnight run.

  2. In the Order Ticket, look under the Bid and Ask prices. Outside regular hours the session is named there, with the regular session's At close price beside the live one.

  3. For a stock that trades around the clock, the Trading Session row of the ticket switches between Market hours and 24/5.

  4. On a chart with an interval of one hour or less, a light tint sits behind the candles traded outside regular hours, a little stronger for the night. Overlays, in the chart's toolbar, has Extended hours to turn it off.

  5. In a watchlist or in Portfolio Positions, open the widget's menu, choose Columns… and add Session to see the session on every row. During regular hours the column says that the market is open, or closed.

Good to know

  • Regular hours normally run from 09:30 to 16:00 New York time. Pre-market runs from 04:00 to 09:30, after hours normally from 16:00 to 20:00, and overnight from 20:00 to 04:00.

  • These sessions run on a stock's 24/5 line. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 stocks have one, from Sunday evening to Friday's close in New York: Market Hours gives the exact times.

  • For a US trading account, the night shows as Closed.

  • Market Hours also lists the other markets with their opening hours, in your own time zone.

Screens are from a Demo account. The instruments and prices in them are illustrative.

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