40 DAX shares can now be traded around the clock

Extension of times DAX shares can now be traded around the clock As of: October 27, 2026 • 3:12 p.m

Anyone who wants to buy or sell shares in Siemens, SAP and Co. late in the evening or on the weekend can do so now. Deutsche Börse enables trading around the clock. What does that mean?

Buying or selling shares in BMW, Deutsche Telekom or BASF was previously only possible within certain trading hours. As Deutsche Börse has now announced, this is set to change immediately. From now on, trading in the 40 DAX shares will be possible around the clock. “This is an important step towards a European market infrastructure that is available around the clock,” said Deutsche Börse.

So far, trading has been significantly more restricted: regular stock market trading on Xetra - Deutsche Börse's electronic trading platform - runs on weekdays from nine in the morning to half past five in the evening. For private investors there have been extended trading hours there for a long time - since December last year from eight in the morning to ten in the evening. What is new is trading at night and on weekends. The prerequisite is that your own bank offers access.

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What is important, however, is that at night and on weekends trading takes place on a platform other than Xetra - namely the 360X trading platform, which was founded in 2021 and in which Commerzbank is involved, as well as Deutsche Börse. Processing takes place via existing Clearstream accounts. Clearstream is a service provider for Deutsche Börse that, among other things, takes care of the settlement and custody of securities.

Xetra's official opening auctions remain unaffected by the new trading on the platform. Prices that occur at night or on weekends on 360X do not determine the official opening price on the next trading day.

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Longer trading hours are not a fundamentally new phenomenon on the stock market. The time windows have been repeatedly expanded in the past. Especially in phases of good stock market sentiment, the desire to be able to trade outside of usual times increases. “Deutsche Börse Group aims to be the first European financial market infrastructure that enables 24/7 offerings for classic blue-chip stocks,” says Eric Leupold, Head of Cash Market at Deutsche Börse Group.

For investors, the new offer means more flexibility, for example if important news only becomes known in the evening or at the weekend. "By making DAX 40 stocks tradable on 360X, we securely combine deep, regulated liquidity pools with the flexibility of 24/7 availability. This allows our customers to manage risk whenever global markets move," says Carlo Kölzer, Head of Digital and FX at Deutsche Börse Group and Co-CEO of 360X.

However, trading outside of peak hours may be less liquid. Then the buy and sell prices may be further apart than during regular trading. Investors should therefore not only pay attention to the ability to trade at any time, but also to the respective conditions and prices.

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