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US Futures Trading Hours

US Futures Market — CME

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Trading sessions

All times below are in America/Chicago local time. Each session's conversion to your time appears in the live status bar above.

SessionStartEnd
Regular17:0016:00(next day)

Time zone:America/Chicago · Currency:USD · Trading days:Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

Holiday closures

US futures trade on the CME Globex electronic platform in a nearly 23-hour continuous model — closing at 16:00 CT and reopening at 17:00 CT each day after a one-hour maintenance break. Holidays follow the US equity calendar: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and others, as full or half days. Globex closures differ slightly from the cash market; exact dates follow the official CME calendar.

FAQ

When does the US futures market trade?⌄
The CME Globex platform trades nearly 23 hours continuously: it opens Sunday at 17:00 CT and closes Friday at 16:00 CT, with a one-hour maintenance break (16:00–17:00 CT) each day. In UTC that is roughly 22:00 Sunday through 21:00 Friday (one hour later under standard time).
Do E-mini S&P 500, crude oil and gold futures share the same hours?⌄
Almost — they all run on CME Globex’s 23-hour electronic session. A few products (such as some agricultural contracts) still have a pit session, but the electronic session is dominant.
Does the US futures market close for Thanksgiving?⌄
Thanksgiving Day is a full close, and the next day (Black Friday) is a half-day closing early at 12:15 CT. Christmas is similar: a half-day on Christmas Eve plus a full close on December 25.
Can US equity futures predict the cash open?⌄
Because E-mini S&P 500 futures trade nearly 23 hours, they are widely used as an indication ahead of the US cash open. But “futures up” does not guarantee the cash market opens up — it is only an approximation of sentiment.
Do daylight saving changes affect downloaded timestamps?⌄
They can. CME session times are fixed in Chicago time, and the offset to other regions shifts in March and November. Quant Data Fetch uses the IANA time-zone database to handle this automatically — no manual settings needed.

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