Trading Hours

Box Office Contracts trade on the Cantor Exchange 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Trading may be suspended for routine maintenance and any announced periods of non-routine maintenance.

Closing prices are set and daily price limits are reset every day at 5:00 PM. Every account is marked to market as of the same time.

Weekly Schedule

The exchange typically begins trading for new contracts on Tuesdays. For more information, see the Initial Contract Offerings (ICOs) page.

Contracts due to expire stop trading at 5:00 PM on the Tuesday after the fourth weekend that the film has been in wide release in theaters, and go through Final Settlement at 9:00 AM on Wednesday morning (the following day).

The exchange publishes a Weekly Report to members that highlights new contract listings, release date changes, etc. The new version of the report is made available on Wednesdays at 12 noon. Click here for the latest copy of the Weekly Report.

Holidays for Calculating Box Office on Extended Weekends

Trading in Box Office Contracts is active on the Cantor Exchange every day (7 days per week). Trading does not stop for weekends or holidays.

The calculation of box office receipts typically runs through the fourth weekend after the underlying film goes into wide release in theaters. That weekend is considered to end on Sunday night for most weekends, but if the following Monday is a holiday, then the weekend is considered to end on Monday night. In this case, the box office receipts for Monday are included in the film's total for the purpose of calculating the Final Settlement price.

The following Mondays are considered holidays for the purpose of calculating box office receipt totals:

	Monday holidays in 2010	Monday holidays in 2011
New Year’s Day	(does not fall on a Monday)	(does not fall on a Monday)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day	January 18	January 17
Presidents’ Day	February 15	February 21
Memorial Day	May 31	May 30
Independence Day	July 5	July 4
Labor Day	September 6	September 5
Christmas Day	(does not fall on a Monday)	December 26