Digital currency enthusiasts are anxiously awaiting a regulatory decision on crypto exchange-traded funds in the U.S.—but there’s a drawback American asset managers will face, regardless: market hours.
ETFs, by definition, trade on exchanges, which are subject to workweek-hour trading restrictions. Cryptocurrencies, on the other hand, can be bought and sold at all hours of the day, any day of the year.
Should the price of Bitcoin abruptly plummet on a Saturday, investors in a Bitcoin ETF would theoretically be trapped in that fund until the market opens on Monday. Should it spike, they’d have to wait to trade for a profit.
Source: Bitcoin, other crypto ETFs face another hurdle in the U.S. with the ‘Sunday effect’ | Fortune
