Carryover to Regular trading
Extended hours trades do not necessarily carry over to the stock market. To find out whether it carries over to the opening bell extended hours traders should check with a brokerage firm to determine how it handles orders placed in the extended-hours markets according to the
Abbreviation
Extended-hours trading is abbreviated frequently on chat rooms as AH. That has led people to jokingly refer to extended-hours trading as "amateur hour", as the people who trade during the time that extended hours trading is active, are mostly small retail traders and not institutions or banks, and, barring material news, it frequently does not reflect how trading will be the next morning.
Trading in the morning
Trading may also occur before the traditional trading hours, but that is known as pre-market trading which is described below.
In the morning extended hours trading is called pre-market trading works like: security trading between banks and share dealers, not requiring and not using exchange control, before the opening of the traditional stock market session. In the morning extended hours trading is: trading certain NASDAQ and Listed securities through Electronic Communications Networks (ECNs) right before the traditional trading session.
Times
The times for extended hours trading in the morning is from 4:00am – 9:30am Eastern, Monday through Friday on days when the market is open. Trading through Fidelity, pre-market trading is from