AFTER HOURS STOCK QUOTES

Traditionally, trading hours for all leading stock exchanges such as NYSE, NASDAQ, and Amex has been between 9.00 AM to 4 PM on EST. Few years ago NASDAQ introduced After hours trading breaking this tradition and other stock markets followed the suit. NASDAQ started offering after hours stock quotes after 6 pm. After hours stock trading begins at 6.30 pm after the markets are closed in the afternoons and ends at 7.30 am before the morning starting hours. Initially, after hours stock quotes was not reciprocated well by large number of trading community and investors due to various issues. It is only confined to high net worth individuals and financial institutions such as mutual funds. After hours stock trade constituted only 1% of total trading volume.

After hours stock trading can be useful for investors who do not have time during the day to follow the stock market. Such people can use after hours stock trading sitting in their drawing room at their convenient hours. There are many websites like midnightTrader.com provides after hour stock quotes and helps the investors to trade on stocks during odd hours.

Experts opine that the risk associated with after hours stocks trading can be much higher than the normal hours trading. The primary reason sited by them is the volatile prices. As there are few buyers and sellers participating during after hours stock sales the prices can be volatile. This is because the main brokers and investors shun away from after hours trading and is mainly dominated by institutional investors such as FII, mutual funds and insurance companies.

Most of the corporations issue press releases after the normal trading hours to save their current stock prices. However, during after the hours trading negative impacts will be reflected on the stock price making them more volatile. Experts also point out that there is a lack of liquidity in after hours trading. This is because only a part of investors participate in odd trading hours, as a result not all the tradable scrip are traded such hours. In spite of all these disadvantages after hours stock quotes attract many investors. There are number of websites that facilitates such odd hour stock transactions by proving various inputs and assistance.