To buy or sell stocks after-hours on Robinhood (4:00 PM–8:00 PM ET), use Limit Orders for whole shares. Select the stock, choose "Trade," set your order type to "Limit," and select "Extended Hours" in the order summary to buy/sell at your specified price. For 24-hour, select the "24 Hour Market" option.
Market hours
But with extended-hours trading and the Robinhood 24 Hour Market, you can execute trades from 8 PM ET Sunday until 8 PM ET Friday, with some restrictions. Orders placed outside these hours will be queued to process when the market opens on the next trading day.
The following are a few reasons why you may not be able to buy or sell certain stocks in your Robinhood account: It's a foreign stock, which we don't support. For details on eligible stocks, check out Investments you can make on Robinhood. It's an over-the-counter (OTC) stock that Robinhood doesn't support.
Limit orders are the only permitted order type during pre-market and after-hours trading sessions — Robinhood's extended hours trading sessions are 9:00 a.m. EST to 9:30 a.m. EST for pre-market and 4:00 p.m. EST to 6:00 p.m. EST for after-market. So if you've placed an extended hours order, you've used a limit order.
Our venues don't support market orders during extended or overnight trading. Market orders placed during regular market hours expire at the end of regular market hours.
If you are marked as a PDT, the rule's primary consequence is an immediate and strict $25,000 minimum equity requirement. If your account value drops even a dollar below this threshold, you will be restricted from opening any new positions for 90 days, effectively locking you out of your main trading strategy.
The cash value from a referral stock needs to remain in your investing or retirement account for at least 30 calendar days. If you sell your free stock before the 30 days, you won't be able to access those funds in your withdrawable cash. After the 30-day window, there are no restrictions on the proceeds.
The 7% sell rule is a stock trading guideline to cut losses quickly, advising you to sell a stock if it drops 7-8% below your purchase price to protect capital, remove emotion, and prevent small losses from becoming catastrophic, a strategy popularized by William O'Neil's CAN SLIM method for growth investing. It assumes that truly strong stocks typically don't fall much below their buy point, so a dip signals something is wrong, requiring you to exit the trade to preserve funds for better opportunities.
Keep in mind, limit orders aren't guaranteed to execute. There has to be a buyer and seller on both sides of the trade. If there aren't enough shares in the market at your limit price, it may take multiple trades to fill the entire order, or the order may not be filled at all.
When you make a trade during overnight hours (between 8 PM-12 AM ET), the trade date will actually be the next trading day. For example, if you buy 2 shares of ABC on Monday at 9 PM ET, and then sell 2 shares of ABC on Tuesday at 10 AM ET, it counts as a day trade.
You'll pay capital gains taxes when you sell an asset and the sale results in a profit for you. Capital gains taxes apply to other things beyond physical assets–the same thing happens when selling stock: if you sell it for more than its purchase price, you'll owe capital gains tax.
Regular Shares: You can sell shares immediately after purchasing them. This will be considered an intraday trade.
Robinhood withdrawal fees depend on the method: standard ACH bank transfers are free, but instant withdrawals (to debit card or bank via RTP) cost 1.75% (min $1, max $150), while transferring stocks to another broker costs a flat $100 fee. Crypto withdrawals have no fee from Robinhood but require network (gas) fees paid to the blockchain.
You can access your Robinhood account from almost anywhere. However, certain laws and regulations (specifically those administered by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)) prohibit account access for some countries. Robinhood has also made a risk-based decision to restrict access for some other countries.
Many traders aim to earn about 1% to 2% per day, which would be $250 to $500 daily on a $25,000 account. However, real-life results vary and often depend on your trading style, experience, and the overall market conditions.
The average Robinhood user has around $5,000 per account vs the average Charles Schwab user, which has around $100,000 per account. The Median amount in a Robinhood account is even lower at $240.