CBOT Trading Hours

[RobinHood 10]

A quick look at the CBOT official site shows CBOT mini-sized gold contracts trade from "6:16PM-4:00PM" (http://www.cbot.com/cbot/pub/page/0,3181,932,00.html#metals)

 

However, MB trading (my broker) shows metals as trading "12:30AM-5:00PM", and "6PM-11:55PM". (http://www.mbtrading.com/f/futuretradinghours.pdf).

 

 

Which one is it?:crap:

[Guest forsearch]

Go with the exchange first.

 

Brokers are notorious for misrepresenting the open/close times of contracts on their platform or documentation.

 

For example, Open E Cry still has the CBOT treasury complex (ZB, ZN, ZF, ZT, ZQ) showing an open time of 7:00 pm ET on their live OEC platform for months now, when in fact it's been starting at 6:30 pm ET since Jan 28th, 2008.

 

In your case, looking at the link you provided, MB Trading has the correct start time listed for the CBOT metals (7:16 pm ET). The 11:55pm ET stop time is when MB Trading has elected to restart their own servers for nightly maintenance, restarting it at 12:30am ET, with the correct close time of 5:00 pm ET shown.

 

Hope this helps.

 

-fs