CME’s 24/7 Bitcoin Futures Launch Collides With $6.25B Options Expiry
May 29, 2026
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by Anush Jafer
for CryptoPolitan

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After over eight years of weekend gaps, CME Group is switching its regulated crypto futures and options to continuous trading, going live at 4 P.M. Central Time, removing the traditional Monday morning blank on TradingView. The change should boost liquidity and 24/7 price discovery across crypto derivatives, narrow the gap between CEX and DEX trading hours, and encourage institutional adoption and deeper derivatives markets.
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For over eight years, Bitcoin traders have opened TradingView on Monday morning in search of the same signal: a blank space left behind over the weekend. Today, this changes. CME Group, the world’s largest derivatives exchange, is flipping its regulated crypto futures and options to continuous trading which goes live at 4 P.M. Central Time...


