Finance: Deutsche Börse introduces around-the-clock trading for DAX shares

So far, stock trading at Deutsche Börse ends late in the evening. Now Germany's largest stock exchange operator has launched a model that allows investors to trade at night.

Frankfurt/Main. As of today, investors at Deutsche Börse can trade the 40 shares of the DAX companies around the clock. Through its investment in 360X, Deutsche Börse has introduced a model that enables customers to do business with the most important German stock market stocks even outside of regular trading hours. “This is an important step towards a European market infrastructure that is available around the clock,” said Deutsche Börse in Frankfurt.

Specifically, the trading platform 360X, founded in 2021 and in which Commerzbank is involved alongside Deutsche Börse, handles the execution of orders at night and on weekends. Deutsche Börse's central trading platform Xetra continues to provide liquidity during core European trading hours. The new combined model is intended to give private investors who are usually no longer able to trade DAX shares late in the evening or at night this opportunity if they place orders through their house bank.

On Xetra, main trading for stocks and other securities has so far been from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; since December 2025, extended early and late trading for private investors has been in effect from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. However, trading on Xetra around the clock is not enough. “Deutsche Börse Group aims to be the first European financial market infrastructure that enables 24/7 offerings for classic blue-chip stocks,” said Deutsche Börse manager Eric Leupold.

With the new combined model with 360X, Xetra's core processes remain unaffected, as Deutsche Börse emphasized. Regular auction cycles would be maintained. “Closing prices on 360X outside trading hours have no influence on the opening prices or on the opening auctions on Xetra.”