Cboe Options Exchange Extends Hours for Select Stock and ETF Options

Cboe Global Markets (C67.DE ) on October 19, 2026, launched extended pre-market and post-market trading sessions for select multi-listed single-stock and exchange-traded fund options on its Cboe Options Exchange (C1), with trading in options on 24 single stocks and five ETFs beginning the same day. Cboe Global Markets announced the pre-market session runs from 7:30 a.m. to 9:25 a.m. ET and the post-market session runs from 4:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. ET, Monday to Friday.

The launch covers the following underlying symbols: AAPL, AMD, AMZN, AVGO, BABA, BAC, F, GLD, GOOG, GOOGL, HOOD, INTC, IWM, META, MRVL, MSFT, MU, NFLX, NOK, NVDA, ORCL, PFE, PLTR, QQQ, SNDK, SPY, TSLA, TSM and XLF. Cboe describes the list as covering some of the most actively traded and liquid symbols, including the Magnificent 10 stocks and other widely followed U.S.-listed names plus major ETFs. According to the company, options on these names accounted for approximately 53% of average daily U.S.-listed options volume in 2026 through September. Cboe also states that C1 is currently the only U.S. options exchange offering pre- and post-market index options sessions.

Session Mechanics and Eligibility

Cboe received approval to amend C1 rules to add a morning Global Trading Hours session and an afternoon Curb session for designated multi-listed equity options, according to the exchange’s Equity Options Extended Trading Hours FAQ. Order acceptance for the new sessions begins at 7:15 a.m. ET, ahead of the 7:30 a.m. session start.

Under Cboe’s criteria, an equity option is eligible for the new sessions if the option class has average daily volume of 150,000 contracts or higher, the underlying equity has a market capitalization of $50 billion or higher, and the underlying equity has average daily traded volume of 10 million shares or higher. The rule change permits Cboe to select up to 100 equity option classes meeting these criteria for trading during the new morning and afternoon sessions.

Cboe said in May that the eligibility thresholds are measured over the preceding six months and that it expects to update the multi-listed equity options class list semi-annually, once based on data from July 1 through December 31 and once on data from January 1 through June 30.

Cboe will not open a class of options if the underlying security has not opened and will generally halt an options class if its associated underlying security halts.

Cboe said several brokers globally are offering or plan to offer access to the sessions. Josh Krugman, SVP of brokerage at Fidelity Investments, said Cboe’s extended trading hours give investors greater flexibility and choice in how and when they engage with options strategies. Interactive Brokers (IBKR ) CEO Milan Galik said trading hours for U.S. equity options have remained limited even as markets move around the clock, and described the initiative as narrowing that gap. Moomoo US CEO Neil McDonald said the firm is offering customers access to the extended hours for select equity options from day one. Robinhood VP of Product Management Abhishek Fatehpuria said many of the platform’s customers want to trade on their own schedule, both before and after the bell.

Ian Leong, CEO of Tiger Brokers Singapore, said: “For investors in Singapore, the U.S. pre-market falls in our evening, when much of the news that moves U.S. stocks is released.” Leong said the firm’s clients have long sought greater flexibility to manage their positions around such events.

TradeStation Group President and CEO John Bartleman said TradeStation Securities is making extended-hours options trading available to its clients at launch. Peter Laptewicz, CPO at Tradier, said Tradier is supporting Cboe’s GTH equities options session for its clients.

Existing Extended-Hours Operations and Path to Launch

Rob Hocking, Cboe’s Global Head of Derivatives, said Cboe led the initiative with extensive input from retail and institutional participants, including U.S. and non-U.S. broker partners. “The shift to 24×5 trading across asset classes is only accelerating,” Hocking said, pointing to demand for Cboe’s index options during non-traditional hours, particularly leading up to the U.S. market open, when economic data and corporate announcements are commonly released.

Cboe currently offers near 24×5 trading of several of its proprietary index options in its Global Trading Hours session, which runs from 8:15 p.m. ET to 9:25 a.m. ET, and its Curb Trading Hours session, which runs from 4:15 p.m. ET to 5:00 p.m. ET. Cboe states that GTH trading achieved record monthly and quarterly average daily volume in September and the third quarter of 2026.

Cboe’s U.S. equities business currently operates trading from 4 a.m. ET to 8 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, on two of its exchanges. Cboe plans to launch trading 23 hours a day, five days a week on its Cboe BZX Exchange on December 6, subject to industry readiness.

The launch follows Cboe’s May 28, 2026 announcement that the Securities and Exchange Commission had approved its filing to begin offering extended trading hours for select multi-listed equity options. At that time, C1 planned to begin offering the sessions on July 13, 2026, subject to SEC approval of a related rule filing, and Cboe anticipated approximately 20 names would be available at launch, including all the Magnificent 7 stocks such as Nvidia, Tesla and Apple, as well as other single-stock names like Palantir, Broadcom and AMD.

Meaghan Dugan, Head of U.S. Derivatives at Cboe, said in May that launching first with a select group of single-name options was a deliberately measured approach intended to help ensure market safeguards and investor protections remain in place. Cboe also stated in May that the post-market session provides investors with a 15-minute post-close window to manage positions in response to after-market events, potentially helping to reduce contra-exercise risk.