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In 1999, the individual investors’ plea for equal after hours stock market trading access was finally granted. Investors can now do their trading at any time, as long as they are a customer of a brokerage firm with an ECN of its own, or access to one or more of the current nine ECNs: Instinet, Island, Bloomberg Tradebook, Archipelago, REDIBook, Strike, Attain, NexTrade, Market XT, and GFI Securities.
Selecting an after hours stock broker: Check to see whether your broker’s system will permit access to quotes on other ECNs and if it will route your order for execution to other ECNs. If you are limited to stock trading quotes within only one system, you may be unable to complete a trade with a willing investor on a different ECN. Listed below are a few good brokers. * Harris Direct (Redibook) * Charles Schwab(Redibook) * Ameritrade (Island) * ETrade (Archipelago) After selecting your broker, there are two after hours essentials to brush up on and/or learn: Limit orders in allow you to set the high/low boundaries for your stock trading, which can protect you from higher priced buys or lower priced sells. Be aware, however, that due to sparse trading occurring in the after hours stock market, there’s a high probability that your buy or sell orders won’t be picked up before the session’s close. The after hours trading order book is a record of all orders currently pending on a given stock. It pairs buyers with sellers when their bid and ask prices match up. Use the book to judge the depth of the market in a particular stock before you place your stock market order and then use the book to track its status.
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