From CryptoBriefing, September 17:
Starting December 6, 2026, US equity markets will operate 23 hours a day, five days a week. The one-hour break each evening, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET, is reserved for maintenance. Every other hour belongs to the traders.
The Securities and Exchange Commission approved the infrastructure changes needed to make this happen, and the agency has gone a step further: it’s openly exploring whether full 24/7 trading should come next.
How the new schedule works....
....MUCH MORE
Our first post on stroke symptoms was in October 2008 during the Great Unpleasantness:
How to Recognize the Symptoms of a Stroke (and what to do)
It came with a three minute video.
"Earnings Jolt Stocks Like Never Before as ETFs, Algos Get Blame" (NVDA; FSLR)
Yes, I am thinking about NVIDIA'a upcoming numbers* and I still get butterflies riding an extended stock that is priced with zero-tolerance for disappointment.
We went through the same thing with First Solar, out in public here on the blog, every three months, pretty much from the $20 IPO in November 2006 to the $317 top-tick in less than 18 months and then down to $11.43 over the next four years.
On some report days the options would move through five or six strike prices.
It got so rollery-coastery we'd do stroke symptom identification drills using the American Stroke Association's F.A.S.T. protocol:
Face drooping: -no, that's just a hang-dog expressionHmmm....this intro seems to be going to a dark place.
Arm weakness: -no, she just threw a monitor across the room
Slurred speech: -no, that's the director of customer relations/client retention just returned from a three grand lunch.
Time to call an ambulance: no, time for some rapid-pulse chair aerobics as the algos move faster than even seems possible.
On a lighter note, here's the headline story from Bloomberg....
And our newest go-to diagnostic test:
Honestly one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen https://t.co/aqA1vpVt8Y
— Aelfred The Great (@aelfred_D) September 20, 2026
