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Interactive Brokers offers trading in overnight hours for over 10,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs. Market data is provided for free, and existing US stock trading permission is sufficient to allow trading. Trades can be placed within Trader Workstation (TWS), Desktop, Client Portal and Mobile. Overnight trading hours are from 8:00pm ET to 3:50am ET with the first session beginning on Sunday at 8:00pm ET and the last session ending at 3:50am ET on Friday. Trades executed between 8:00pm and 12:00am will carry a trade date of the following<\/em> day. For a full listing of the available stocks and ETFs see the exchange listing page on the website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is important to note that orders intended for overnight trading are treated separately<\/em> from orders submitted during the day, or where submitted orders use the extended trading hours\u2019 time-in-force<\/em> designation.  In other words, investors should think of overnight orders as an independent venue. <\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Submitting an Order<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Within the Order Entry panel inside TWS, the investor inputs the symbol, sets the price, order type, note that only Limit and Adaptive order types are currently supported in Overnight Trading. The investor then clicks on the Time-in-Force dropdown and can select either Overnight or Overnight + Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the investor selects Overnight the order will only be active from 8pm ET to 3:50am ET then will cancel if not filled. If the investor selects Overnight + Day, the order will become immediately active and stay active until either filled or 4pm the next day and utilize IBKR\u2019s SmartRouting throughout the trading session. GTC orders are not supported so if the order is not filled by the end of the regular trading session it will be cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this example the investor enters an order; they first select the symbol, enter the quantity, selects Limit and price. They then choose Overnight and Day and click on buy in the lower left-hand side.  The same workflow can be done for a sell order. Using a limit order and IBKR\u2019s Best Pricing router guarantees if the order is filled it will not be at a worse price than the limit price and IBKR\u2019s SmartRouting potentially can get the investor a better execution than their limit price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the investor is ready, they click submit and review the order ticket, when ready they click \u201cTransmit\u201d. In the Activity panel the Destination column will show OVERNIGHT, and the Time-in-force column will show OVERNIGHT and DAY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IBKR\u2019s Overnight trading allows the investor to capture more market opportunities and trade over 10,000 US stocks and ETFs 8 pm ET to 3:50 am ET Sunday night through Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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