About after hours trading

Why is after hrs trading on stocks only limited to a few hrs?..If I wanted to buy/sell shares at 3:30 am, why is this not possible?

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cause there's no one to check the servers at that time, in case something fucked-up like yesterday happens

 

Apparently that's not a problem on the Nymex

 

It was supposed to be funny, don't you see the big grin

 

Sorry, I forgot my grin, I was being sarcastic towards the other markets

 

possible. arca opens at 4am

http://www.nyse.com/productservices/nysearcaequities/1157018931781.html

 

I'm usually up at 3:30, what do you want to trade? I've got some bottle caps, some leftover sushi, a couple of cases of Newcastle, and a broken Ipod that I'm dying to unload.

 

8000 plus stocks and how many futures????

 

After the farce of trading over the last two days it's obvious that the stock exchanges can't afford decent computers. May as well have been using a yahoo 15 minute delayed quote to trade, it's sad when they have to extend the close to catch up on all the trades. Really inspires confidence in the market's ability to respond to the next terrorist attack on the financials.