Stocks Trade for 390 Minutes a Day. Increasingly, Only 10 Matter
- A third of all S&P 500 trades now occur just before the close
- European research points to price distortion, liquidity issues
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The regular market for US equities runs for 390 minutes on a standard trading day. But at the rate things are going, eventually the last 10 might be the only ones that matter.
About a third of all S&P 500 stock trades are now executed in the final 10 minutes of the session, according to data compiled by BestEx Research, a developer of trading algorithms. That’s up from 27% in 2021.