I've had some help with confirming the actual trading hours for the Future Indexes before, but a few different scenarios have come up, with each conflicting one another Here's what has me confused .... 1. I trade on the TorS platform , and at 3:00 p.m. cst. The Bell goes off and rings ( signifying that it is the end of the trading day ) Well , I thought that Futures trading didn't end till 4:15 p.m. cst. and then started back trading at 5:00 p.m. cst. ? So from 3 p.m. cst till 4:15 p.m. ...... is this RTH or ETH ? 2. Looking into both TopStep Trader and NADEX , Both of these close down for the trading day around similar times ...... TopStep's trading hours for the ES is from 5 p.m. cst. till 3:10 p.m. cst. , and NADEX's trading hrs. for the ES is from 5 p.m. cst till 3:15 p.m. ( for their Daily BullCall spreads ) ( so both TopStep and NADEX have close to the same trading Hours ) Any confirmation on the distinction between RTH and ETH would be much appreciated Thanks for the help
i'm not sure what you're smoking, but take a look at the exchange contract specs: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/equity-index/us-index/e-mini-sandp500_contract_specifications.html TorS likely indicates the closing bell is for the equity indexes at 3p.m. Trading halt at 3.15p.m. TST is a vendor, not an exchange. You play by their rules for some reason, maybe they need 5 minutes to consolidate every customer's positions? Or they don't want to get caught by EOD spikes.
For CME, 1700CT is the start of the next trading session (near the beginning of the Asian session) and would be "ETH." For ICE, it's usually 1900CT-1700CT, RTH vs ETH isn't really a thing there. For the CME specific 1530CT-1615CT range, I've never really considered it RTH, but just a final trading window you probably shouldn't be trading other than closing or opening if needed.