Getting market hours

Unfortunately, the E-Trade API does not provide an endpoint for looking up market hours, so we created an API with this information. We also created a handful of useful tools for localizing to EST and referencing the market schedule. Since markethours.info doesn’t require an E-Trade account, you don’t need an APIClient to use MarketHours.

See below for examples for using MarketHours:

Example usage

from wetrade.market_hours import MarketHours


def main():
  todays_hours = MarketHours()

  # Check if the market has opened
  print(todays_hours.market_has_opened())

  # Check if the market has closed
  print(todays_hours.market_has_closed())

  # Wait for the market to open
  todays_hours.wait_for_market_open()

  # See the number of seconds until open
  print(todays_hours.seconds_till_open())

  # Do something if there's less than a minute before
  # close. Something like this could be used in a loop
  if todays_hours.seconds_till_close() < 60:
    print('Hurry up!')

  # Show open, close, and current time in EST
  print(todays_hours.open)
  print(todays_hours.close)
  print(todays_hours.now_est())


if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()

Detailed usage

class wetrade.market_hours.MarketHours(date_str='')

Parameters:

date_str (str) – (optional) manually set date (format: ‘%Y-%m-%d’)

change_date(new_date_str)

check_market_hours()

market_has_closed() → bool

market_has_opened() → bool

now_est()

seconds_till_close()

seconds_till_open()

wait_for_market_open()