Aktien: Wie in den USA: Deutsche Börse startet Handel mit Dax-Aktien rund um die Uhr

Deutsche Börse launches 24/7 trading of DAX stocks nationwide. The German financial services company announced on Tuesday that it is the first European market infrastructure to offer a 24/7 trading solution for classic blue-chip stocks. Outside of regular trading hours and on weekends, DAX stocks can now be traded through Deutsche Börse subsidiary 360X.

Customers can request a price from market makers (Market Maker) who are active at the company in nighttime and weekend hours when they want to trade a DAX stock. Unlike the electronic trading system Xetra, where trading takes place continuously, the German benchmark index DAX is still only calculated between the core trading hours of 9:00 and 17:30.

Private investors can already trade stocks around the clock with many banks and brokers. Outside of trading hours, banks often take such transactions on their own account. Alternatively, they can execute trades on other platforms such as OTC Markets, which is now also possible through Deutsche Börse. The company aims to increase liquidity in trading outside of core trading hours, which could lead to better buying and selling prices for customers.

By making DAX-40 titles tradable on 360X, Deutsche Börse connects deep, regulated liquidity pools with the flexibility of round-the-clock availability. This allows customers to manage risks whenever global markets move, according to Deutsche Börse manager Carlo Kölzer. Other expectations from crypto investors The Deutsche Börse is reacting to a trend in the United States, where investors have been trading securities outside of official trading hours for some time.

Many see this as a trend that will eventually spread to Europe, given that many crypto investors accustomed to round-the-clock trading of digital assets have increasingly invested in traditional securities. The rise of Neobanks like Trade Republic or Revolut has also led to more customers investing in securities outside of core trading hours.

For this reason, Deutsche Börse introduced extended trading hours for private investors on Xetra as early as December 2025. Since then, customers can trade from 8:00 to 22:00. Now, the trading hours have been expanded to a maximum. "This is an important step towards a fully available European market infrastructure," Deutsche Börse stated.

Within the group, many see this new offer as a first step. If demand is large enough, Deutsche Börse could expand the offer and offer the trading of popular exchange-traded index funds (ETFs) around the clock through 360X. In the medium to long term, extending Xetra trading hours is also conceivable, but this would require a huge technical effort and is currently not planned by company insiders.