In the investment market, besides being familiar with stocks and funds, everyone is also very familiar with futures. Because there are many people speculating in futures around, which aroused their interest. They only know that futures are standardized tradable contracts based on some popular products such as cotton, soybeans and oil and financial assets such as stocks and bonds. So how are futures traded? When are the opening and closing times?

Do futures open on Saturday and Sunday?

Futures are closed on Saturday and Sunday. Futures open at 9: 00 a.m. from Monday to Friday, and close at10: 15-10: 30, and are closed for15 minutes,10: 30. Open at 13: 30 pm and close at 15: 00 pm. It opens at 2 1: 00 pm and closes at 23: 00 pm. Among them, crude oil futures, silver and gold closed at 2: 30 am, and nickel and lead closed at 1: 00.

Daily trading hours:

Commodity futures options: Shanghai Futures Exchange, Shanghai International Energy Exchange Center, Dalian Commodity Exchange and Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange.

Trading time: 9:00- 1 1:30 in the first quarter (where10:15-10: 30 is the rest time) and13: 30-in the second quarter.

Call auction (there is no variety in the night market): the ordering time is 8:55-8:59, and the matching time in call auction is 8:59-9:00.

Trading hours of night plate varieties:

Call auction (night dish variety): the time for filing orders is 20:55-20:59, and the time for matching in call auction is 20:59-2 1:00.

Note: The night trading hours of gold, copper, aluminum, zinc, rubber, crude oil, soybean meal, corn, iron ore, liquefied petroleum gas, polystyrene, plastics, palm oil, PTA, methanol, rapeseed meal, thermal coal, sugar and cotton options are the same as the corresponding futures targets.

Futures and stocks are still very different. Stocks only have daily trading hours, while futures trading hours are divided into night trading and day trading, and the night trading on legal holidays and the day before legal holidays is also closed.