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finance a la shmoop what is after-hours trading well, Wall Street really never [Group of people dealing stocks and shares]

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does sleep the normal American stock market runs from 9:30 until 4:00 p.m.

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New York time on weekdays so trades happening during that period of time are

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just normal not after hours but like I don't know

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just on hours....anyway after hours is [New York City becomes dark after hours]

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different the city gets dark seemy characters roam the streets

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trading stocks from building corners and alleyways yes or maybe not but at 4:01

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p.m. after-hours trading begins it's not like a minute earlier there was demand

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for a million shares a second to trade on the various primary stock exchanges

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and then a minute later demand was zero demand continues always and shares do

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trade after market hours more or less all the time the NYC and Nasdaq [People waving at NASDAQ[

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exchanges are closed but there are lots of private exchanges or EC ends

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electronic communication networks which trade 24/7 365 days a year

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well trading is usually much smaller in volume after hours but that volumes [Trading decreases in size]

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grown a ton in the last decade and the after-hours number is often useful to

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gauge how well or poorly accompanies announced after 4:00 p.m. New York Time [Man reading newspaper]

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quarter was received well the after-hours markets indicate almost

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immediately and while not always right they give a sense for the direction that

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the stock will open the following day on the main exchanges it's also a good time

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to build a position secretly without lots of people inspecting on you

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screaming out to the New York Stock Exchange I want 18 million shares of [Man screams for shares at New York Stock Exchange]

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whatever.com...got it? so if you want to trade on those markets well, you fill

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out some forms pay a small entry fee as you buy three large diet cokes and a [3 diet coke cans and a popcorn bucket]

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bucket of popcorn and you think about the irony of having ordered your coke as

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diet and then you can trade anytime you like yeah in your underwear too it's

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kind of fun [Man standing in his underpants]

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