The 24/7 trading push is about to flip the script on Wall Street's power structure. With major exchanges like NYSE, Nasdaq, and CME moving toward round-the-clock trading, the biggest winners are traders—especially retail. No more waiting for Monday to react to news, no more broker-controlled opening prices.

Here's the play: brokers have long used thin after-hours liquidity to manipulate prices, triggering stop losses and profiting off retail traders. Greenspan calls it outright manipulation—brokers "hunting stops" during market closures. Now, 24/7 trading removes that weekend vacuum entirely.

The numbers back it up. Hyperliquid's 24/7 platform saw $50B in weekly derivatives volume and $1.6M in daily revenue—outpacing Bitcoin's entire blockchain. Traditional exchanges see the same opportunity: more trading hours = more fees.

For traders, this means reacting in real time without being at the mercy of middlemen. For brokers who rely on after-hours price-setting power? Time to adapt or get left behind.

, ,