Robinhood plans 24/7 stock trading - what are your thoughts 🕒

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What if stock trading didn’t stop for the weekend?

At its HOOD Summit, Robinhood announced plans to expand its existing 24/5 equities offering to 24/7, bringing weekend trading in select US stocks and ETFs. The expansion is subject to regulatory review, and a specific launch date hasn’t been announced.

The broader announcements also point towards a shift in how people could trade:

• Longer options trading hours for popular symbols such as Nvidia, Tesla, SPY and QQQ.
• Robinhood Agents, enabling users to work with AI models to analyse markets and automate strategies within dedicated accounts.
• More tools around earnings and social trading, bringing research, discussions and execution closer together.

For traders, round-the-clock access could mean more flexibility to react to global developments. But overnight trading can also come with lower liquidity, wider spreads and higher volatility.

If Indian equity markets moved towards 24/7 trading, would you welcome it?

Would it give you more control over when you trade, or create more pressure to stay connected?

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Main exchanges will be shut. Only few smaller exchanges will remain open with scarce volumes. Nothing to worry about. All it will be doing is giving flexibility to buy and sell on the market anytime even when the main exchanges are closed.

For example, Moderna’s stock opened up 70% in pre-market a couple of days back and then popped up by the time main markets opened even further.

Besides, US companies are worth it to give time and energy to and they also have tremendous balance sheet power unlike Indian businesses which are subject to over-regulations, frauds and barely scrapes in terms of balance sheet strength and shareholder friendliness.