Rakuten Securities Extends US Stock Trading to 16 Hours With After-Market Session
Rakuten Securities adds a U.S. after-market session, reaching up to 16 trading hours and advancing its roadmap tied to 24X National Exchange.
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Rakuten Securities will extend U.S. stock trading hours for its Japanese clients to as much as 16 hours a day starting June 22, adding an after-market session that runs after the U.S. close so customers can react to earnings and news released overnight.
The new after-market window runs from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. Japan time during U.S. daylight saving time, sitting on top of the overnight session that ends at 5 a.m. The broker added U.S. pre-market trading in January, taking its hours to 12, and the latest step pushes the maximum to 16. The post-close window accepts limit orders only and covers U.S. stocks, American depositary receipts and ETFs.
The expansion is the next step in a longer roadmap toward round-the-clock access. Rakuten Securities Holdings invested in 24X US Holdings in May 2025 and has said it wants to bring extended U.S. hours to Japanese clients as soon as it can. 24X National Exchange — the first SEC-approved venue of its kind — began trading in October 2025 from 4 a.m. to 8 p.m. New York time, and Rakuten has tied its U.S. roadmap to that longer access.
The move reflects a wider race to extend the U.S. trading day, driven largely by demand from Asia, where Wall Street trades in the dead of night. Nasdaq, the New York Stock Exchange, Cboe Global Markets and the London Stock Exchange Group have all outlined plans to lengthen trading hours — underscoring the growing momentum behind the extended-hours, 23/5 U.S. equities trading that 24X helped pioneer.