The long standing CME gap phenomenon in Bitcoin trading may soon become a thing of the past as CME Group officially moves to round the clock crypto futures trading.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced that Bitcoin futures and options on its Globex platform will begin trading 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The new schedule takes effect this Friday, allowing continuous access to Bitcoin derivatives markets with only a brief weekly interruption. Trading will pause for a single 60 minute maintenance window every Sunday between 18:00 and 19:00 UTC+8.
The shift effectively eliminates the traditional weekend market closure that created the well known “CME gap” in Bitcoin price charts.
CME gaps became one of the most closely watched patterns among crypto traders after Bitcoin futures gained traction on the exchange several years ago. Since CME markets closed over weekends while spot Bitcoin trading continued nonstop, price differences frequently appeared between Friday’s closing price and Monday’s opening price.
Over time, many traders began treating these gaps as important technical signals, believing Bitcoin prices would eventually return to those levels in order to “fill” or “close” the gap.
With CME now offering near continuous trading for Bitcoin futures and options, those weekend price gaps are expected to disappear entirely, marking the end of one of crypto trading’s most widely followed market patterns.#crypto#cryptonews https://coinsignals.net https://t.me/coinsignalpublic
