2025-12-22 14:32:01

Traders need to mark their calendars for the holiday trading windows ahead. The Christmas and New Year period brings significant changes to market hours across global exchanges.

On Christmas Eve, US equity markets will wrap up early at 1:00 p.m. ET, while bond markets close at 2:00 p.m. ET. Come Christmas Day itself, all markets shut down entirely, with normal trading resuming the following day on Friday.

As we approach New Year's Eve, similar adjustments take effect. Understanding these trading schedule shifts is crucial for managing positions and avoiding execution surprises during the holiday season. Crypto markets, by contrast, operate 24/7 without these traditional closures—a key distinction for portfolio managers juggling both traditional and digital assets.

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POAPlectionist

· 2025-12-25 09:03

Speaking of which, traditional markets taking holidays is really annoying; crypto is the perpetual motion machine... Christmas and the days of watching the market are coming soon.

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ZKSherlock

· 2025-12-23 21:50

actually... the fact that trad markets literally just *stop* while crypto keeps humming is kinda wild when you think about the trust assumptions baked in there, y'know? like, who's even verifying those price feeds when everyone's on holiday lmaooo

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