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Electronic Trading Hours

AKA: ETH The U.S. after-hours markets during the evenings. Futures contracts trading during ETH do so on electronic trade matching platforms such as Chicago Board of Trade’s A/C/E, Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s GLOBEX, and New York Mercantile Exchange’s ACCESS.