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Stock Market Holidays

The typical stock market holidays don’t change very much.  The list of holidays stays pretty static from year to year.  But as employers shift their holiday schedules around, it is important to understand what the market is doing too.  After all, you don’t want to schedule an important trade on the day a stock exchange is closed.

Stock Exchange Schedules

First off, we want to make it perfectly clear that we understand that we live in a global economy and that other countries do not celebrate all of these holidays.  None the less, the largest stock markets in the world are located in the United States and they do follow an American holiday schedule.

If you want to see all of the stock market holidays throughout the world, we suggest you take a look at our article on stock exchanges.   That particular article points to articles on international stock exchanges and their individual holiday schedules.

Fortunately all of the major American exchanges – the NYSE Euronext, NASDAQ and American Stock Exchange – follow these same holiday rules.  That being said, listed below are the official stock market holidays for the calendar years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010:

Stock Market Holiday Schedule 2010

Special Holiday Rules

Here are some of the special rules that apply to holidays:

• The Day after Thanksgiving is not an official holiday; however, the market has a tradition of closing at 1:00 p.m. on this day.
• When any holiday that is observed by the stock market or stock exchange falls on a Saturday, then the market will not be open for business on the proceeding Friday.
• When any holiday that is observed by the stock market or stock exchange falls on a Sunday, then the market will not be open for business on the following Monday.

Some of these holidays move around, depending on the calendar year.  Here are a couple of rules for those holidays:

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated on the third Monday in January
• President’s Day is celebrated on the third Monday in February 
• Memorial Day is celebrated on the last Monday in May

Stock Market Hours of Operation

As long as we’ve mentioned the rules for stock market holidays, we thought that we would throw in the stock market hours of operation too.  The regular hours trading hours of the stock market are 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern time.  The after-hour sessions run from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. eastern time for the NASDAQ and 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on the NYSE Euronext.

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