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The world’s great options marketplace and the home of the VIX, the market’s fear gauge.
The Cboe Global Markets in Chicago, United States, is open 08:30–15:00 local time, Monday to Friday. It trades straight through with no lunch break. Today that is to in UTC.
When Chicago opens, liquidity in USD rises; when it closes, it thins out. The hours when two big centres overlap — London with New York, Tokyo with Sydney — are when spreads are tightest and the large moves usually start. Book I of the ForeXistenZ trilogy teaches how to plan your day around these session hand-offs.
The regular session of CBOE runs 08:30–15:00 local time (America/Chicago), Monday to Friday. It is closed on United States public holidays. Opening and closing auctions are not included.
The live box on this page works it out from CBOE’s regular hours in Chicago time, so it is always current; it shows OPEN, LUNCH BREAK or CLOSED and when the next change comes. Public holidays are not shown.
The benchmark followed here is the VIX volatility index. Its delayed public quote appears on this page.
Shares on CBOE are priced in USD. A foreign investor buying them must first buy USD, so heavy equity flows into United States show up in the USD exchange rate.
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