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Robinhood Pre Market and After Hours Trading (2025)
Robinhood extended hours (EH, AH) trading: market hours time period, Robinhood Gold account
fees, and broker surcharge. How to enter Robinhood pre-market, after-hours orders.
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Robinhood Pre-Market and After-Hours Trading
Besides $0 commissions, Robinhood also offers extended-hours trading and
24/7 trading in some assets. Read on for the details.
Robinhood Extended Hours Trading
Robinhood offers both pre-market and after-hours trading in all securities in the United States that
are eligible for extended hours. The Robinhood’s pre-market period is from 7:00 am, Eastern Standard Time, until the opening bell, which is at 9:30 am. Robinhood’s after-hours trading session lasts from the closing bell, which is at 4:00 pm, until 8:00 pm. In total, that’s 13 hours of trading time.
Extended-hours trading at Robinhood comes with all sorts of caveats that are important to be aware of. First of all, orders that are placed on either trading platform (the website or mobile app) will be queued for the beginning of the next day’s action if they are submitted outside of extended hours.
Second of all, an asset’s price at Robinhood during extended hours will be the last trade price on one of three Nasdaq security exchanges:
Nasdaq Stock Market
NASDAQ OMX BX
NASDAQ OMX PHLX
Third, not all equities can be traded in fractional shares during extended hours. If an asset isn’t eligible for fractional-share trading during these periods, you’ll see two choices:
(1) Place the order for whole shares
(2) Queue an order for fractional shares to be executed during the regular day session
Fourth, market orders are not accepted during extended hours. If a market order is placed outside of the regular market session, it will be queued for execution during the next day's regular session.
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Robinhood 24/7 Trading in Securities
Robinhood customers who find that 13 hours of trading just aren’t enough now have another option:
overnight trading.
Robinhood recently launched trading 24 hours a day, 5 days a week in a small list of securities. While this isn’t quite 24/7, it does nevertheless open up many more hours than traditional extended-hours trading.
Robinhood’s 24-hour market begins at 8:00 pm, EST, on Sunday and runs until 8:00 pm on Friday. These full five days will be interrupted by market holidays.
The 24-hour market is much smaller than the extended-hours market. Currently, there are
1051 securities on Robinhood’s list. It includes:
- Apple (AAPL)
- Amazon (AMZN)
- iShares Core US Aggregate Bond ETF (AGG)
- SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)
- SPDR Gold Trust (GLD)
- Invesco QQQ (QQQ)
- Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI)
Finding these securities is very simple on Robinhood’s website.
Simply head to the dashboard by clicking on Robinhood’s logo that appears in the upper-left corner of the site. Scroll down to the Trending Lists section and click on the icon for the 24-hour market.
As with extended-hours trading, the 24-hour market only accepts limit orders of whole shares.
Charts and Stats for 24-Hour Securities
Stocks and ETFs that trade 24 hours a day will have charts that reflect such trading activity. Graphs show price action around the clock. During our investigation, we did not find any volume for such securities during this time, although there was price action.
The day’s high and low prices displayed for these securities on Robinhood’s platform are calculated from midnight to midnight.
How to Make Extended-Hours or Overnight Trade
The process to place an extended-hours or overnight trade on Robinhood follows the same path that is required for a regular trade. On the order form that appears on the website and mobile app, there is a drop-down menu for trading hours. There are three choices: day, extended, and 24 hour. Simply select the one you want. It’s not possible to specify only extended hours or late-night trading. The day session will be included in these order periods.
A duration choice must also be selected. There are two options: GTC (good-til-canceled) and day. If a day order is selected for a 24-hour or extended-hours trade, it will expire at 8:00 pm, EST.
A limit price and number of whole shares to be purchased must be specified, too. When everything has been filled in, review the order and submit the trade.
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Day Trades
For purposes of day trading, the next trading day begins at 8:00 pm, EST. Thus, if you buy security XYZ at 10:25 pm in overnight trading and sell it at 9:50 am the next morning, the regulators will consider the round trip to be a day trade even though it occurred across two calendar days.
Robinhood 24/7 Trading in Cryptocurrencies
Robinhood has a long list of cryptocurrencies that can be traded 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
There are occasional breaks for software maintenance, but otherwise, they can be traded around the
clock.
Unlike the securities mentioned thus far in this article, cryptos are not subject to pattern day-trading rules, so there are no restrictions on the number of trades that can be entered per day.
Robinhood Extended Hours Fees and Minimums
Robinhood does not impose any surcharges on trades during extended hours or the overnight period. Thus, they are commission-free. The whole-share requirement increases the minimum trade amount to one full share. There are no increased account minimums, though.
Updated on 5/22/2025.
Chad Morris is a financial writer with more than 20 years experience
as both an English teacher and an avid trader. When he isn’t writing
expert content for Brokerage-Review.com, Chad can usually be found
managing his portfolio or building a new home computer.
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