The markets can be overwhelming. Fortunately, there are tools for investors to help navigate the often chaotic and ever-changing trading hours.
Here are a few tools available to clients that can help people reach their financial goals.

News Visualization: This tool provides a fast way to find news stories for the positions in your account using an easy-to-read visual format. You can click any tile to see a chart and the new stories for that symbol.

Watch List Heat Map: This feature is a heat map view of watch lists, which can help you quickly identify gainers and losers for trading and research opportunities. Securities with negative performance will show up in red (the worse the performance, the darker the red). Clicking on a square tile will give you detailed quote information for that symbol. You can customize the time range of the performance as well as how often the grid auto-refreshes.

Predefined Screens: High-level screening criteria (e.g. share price, dividend yield, PEG ratio) is available to help get you more comfortable using the screening tool.

Market Movers: This tool, found under Market Data in ScottradeELITE and Scottrader Streaming Quotes, displays securities that have reached a high or low for the current as well as new 52-week highs or lows. The list can be filtered by price range, net change and percentage change.

In conclusion, these are the main tools, but there are many other tools that help a lot in trading hours in rest

After-hours trading alludes to the purchasing and offering of securities finished outside of customary trading hours. Exchanging outside of the standard trading hours of 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time utilizes electronic correspondence systems (ECNs) to coordinate potential purchasers and merchants without utilizing a stock trade.

ECNs broaden the exchanging by giving restricted exchanging prior and then afterward the consistent exchanging hours. The exchanging hours for prospects and alternatives trades shift by item and trade that is implying that an ECN is an interface that enables singular financial specialists to assisted electronically, as well as gives expansive institutional speculators a chance to connect namelessly, in this way concealing their activities.