Meta Beats Sales Forecast Estimates; Announces First Dividend
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So many tech stocks I follow will have good or bad news at the very end of the day, where the stock price is obviously going to impacted in a specific direction, but I can't act on it because the market is closed. The large price fluctuations happen in after hours trading and, by the time the market opens (to me) the next day, the price is already way up or way down.
How does that work? As a normal person without a ton of money, is there a way I can trade stocks after market close so I can capitalize on obvious situations like this one?
Edit: It's after market close they make the announcements [1].
> Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common Stock is expected* to report earnings on 02/01/2024 after market close.
1. https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/meta/earnings
Most brokerages (even Robinhood) allow you to trade after-hours. But the volume is lower so it can be more volatile.
You kind of hit the nail on the head as to why it's done after markets close. By doing it after it closes, no one party theoretically has the ability to make more money than another party.
Earnings are always released before or after market close.
That seems to be an unintended tautology. I assume you meant to say that they're typically released either shortly after closing or shortly before reopening, right?