{"id":18626,"date":"2025-07-23T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/18626\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:50:09","slug":"why-24-7-trading-is-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/18626\/","title":{"rendered":"Why 24\/7 trading is a bad idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">Stock exchanges are the quaintest corners of modern finance. At other financial institutions, the typical trading floor features people in t-shirts sat at ergonomic keyboards, sipping herbal tea and reviewing computer code. Enter New York\u2019s bourse, meanwhile, and you might as well have been through a time warp. Tense-looking people bustle everywhere sporting headsets and relics known as neckties. Everyone looks as if they shout a lot. As in a cattle market, opening and closing bells are rung to mark either end of the day\u2019s trading session, at 9.30am and 4pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stock exchanges are the quaintest corners of modern finance. At other financial institutions, the typical trading floor features&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[84,11924,11923,11925,467,6884,3356,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-18626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-buttonwood","tag-columns","tag-finance-economics","tag-markets","tag-opinion","tag-stocks","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}