If you hate waiting for Monday morning, Robinhood is working on a fix. The Menlo Park, California-based broker says customers will soon be able to place weekend trades in a limited set of equities and exchange-traded funds. That would extend its present hours, which begin in New York at 8 p.m. on Sunday and continue until 8 p.m. on Friday. Orders placed over the weekend will be routed to a venue operated by Bruce Markets.
"Breaking news doesn't wait for an opening bell," said Steve Quirk, Robinhood's chief brokerage officer.
Robinhood also spotlighted contracts tied to corporate results - a new flavor of options from Cboe Global Markets Inc. that lets traders speculate on whether a company beats a specific metric, like Tesla Inc.'s vehicle deliveries. The company said these contracts are expected to roll out in the next few weeks, subject to final approval by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
On the crypto side, Robinhood customers will be able to trade perpetual futures on select tokens, with leverage up to 10 times on some contracts. Those will run through Bitstamp, the exchange Robinhood bought last year. The broker added that it has broadened availability of its agentic AI trading tools to its users, and noted earlier this year that prediction markets are its fastest-growing line of business.
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Bruce Markets' chief executive officer, Jason Wallach, said, "Together with our partners, we are breaking down the limitations of traditional market structure and redefining how the world trades." To help stand up the weekend trading rollout, Bruce Markets is receiving new funding of an undisclosed amount from Robinhood and from Peak6 Investments, Bruce's majority owner.
U.S. stock trading has long centered on weekdays from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., but that's shifting. Nasdaq Inc., the New York Stock Exchange and 24x National Exchange are preparing to roll out trading windows that run up to 23 hours per day, five days each week in the coming months. Nasdaq, for instance, is adding a window that spans 9.00 p.m through 4.00 a.m. In a bit of back-to-the-future trivia, SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda recently noted that New York markets used to open on Saturdays for roughly 80 years, ending in 1952.
For everyday investors, more trading windows simply mean more moments when prices can move and you can act. If you hold names that end up on Robinhood's weekend list, or you are eyeing those earnings-linked options or crypto perpetuals, your calendar just got more crowded. Your move.
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