Stocks Trade for 390 Minutes a Day. Increasingly, Only 10 Matter

Analysis April 29, 2024 at 04:23 PM
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What You Need To Know

  • About a third of S&P 500 stock trades occur in the last minutes of a session, up from 27% in 2021.
  • Still, the growing role of retail investors has prompted a number of brokerages like Robinhood to offer 24-hour trading of some securities.
  • Yet for institutional pros, it's increasingly all about those last few minutes.
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