Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Term of the Day: Witching Hour

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October 27, 2015
Witching Hour

The last hour of stock trading between 3pm (when the bond market closes) and 4pm EST. Witching hour is typically controlled by large professional traders, program traders and large institutional traders, and can be characterized by higher-than-average volatility

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