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pnutyesterday at 10:51 AM2 repliesview on HN

Why do we encourage microsecond scale HFT and tout its virtues, yet shut the market down for the majority of every day?

Why not go all the way and have markets running 24/7/365?


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scrlkyesterday at 11:58 AM

The NYSE and NASDAQ are planning to move to longer trading hours, 22/5 and 24/5 respectively.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-07/nasdaq-jo... (https://archive.ph/JySaV)

Ekarosyesterday at 10:57 AM

And while at that. Remove all circuit breakers. Let the markets be free. Whatever they do. Rocket up or down.

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