This year, the London Stock Exchange Group is considering launching 24-hour trading. Now Hong Kong stocks are also thinking about aligning with international standards to extend to 24-hour trading. This is to compete for global hot money with the US stock market and the cryptocurrency market.

Currently, the global stock market trading hours are 8.5 hours for European markets, 6.5 hours for US markets, around 6 hours for Asian markets, 5.5 hours for Hong Kong stocks, and only 4 hours for A-shares! Personally, I understand but strongly oppose it. If Hong Kong stocks follow suit, then A-shares will have an excuse to follow the trend, aligning with mature markets.

So the question arises, opening night trading to attract foreigners. Do you think there will be foreign investors coming in? A-shares often display a facade while offering inferior products; the introduced systems will all be localized to fit Chinese characteristics. What is called value investing is actually just speculative gambling; quantitative trading hopes for 28-hour trading every day, wanting to rotate through hundreds of themes daily, thus achieving higher harvesting efficiency. Otherwise, with a frequency of 299 times per second, isn't that a waste?

Within the constraints of this T+1 trading rule, extending trading hours is it truly injecting more vitality into the market, or is it providing a broader operational area for the harvesting machine of quantitative trading? This is indeed a proposition worth pondering. Do you think there is a need for A-shares to extend trading hours? Come on, the casino never sleeps! #美联储FOMC会议