Overnight session (24-hour stock trading)

The overnight session is US stock trading through the American night, which is the Indian working day, on a handful of venues approved from 2024. Volume is thin and the main exchanges are shut, so index futures on the CME are the market price in this window. It is the same window a contract that trades all day lives in.

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