Webull Adds Pre-Market Options, Capping a Week of Broker Rollouts

Webull will open single-stock and ETF options trading from 7:30 a.m. to 9:25 a.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday to Friday, extending a pattern that now spans most major U.S. retail brokers after Cboe and NYSE introduced the new sessions on 19 October.

The timetable matters for execution desks. The morning window adds 1 hour and 55 minutes of pre-market access before the 9:30 a.m. opening bell. The afternoon window adds 15 minutes after the 4:00 p.m. close. Traders gain room to enter or close positions in response to market-moving news released outside regular hours.

Fidelity, Interactive Brokers and Robinhood confirmed support for the new trading hours earlier this week, so Webull's announcement closes a near-complete sweep of the major retail platforms.

What instruments are covered?

At the initial rollout, extended hours apply to select single-stock options and ETF options:

• Single-stock names include Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), NVIDIA (NVDA) and Tesla (TSLA), among others.
• ETF options cover SPY, QQQ, IWM, GLD and XLF.
• The list totals 24 stock options and five ETFs.
• According to Cboe, those underlyings account for 53% of average daily U.S.-listed options volume in the first nine months of 2026.

NYSE American launched similar sessions in parallel, but Webull did not disclose which exchange platforms would execute orders placed outside regular hours — an open question for routing and latency teams tracking fill quality across venues.

What do the restrictions look like?

The expansion stops well short of round-the-clock options trading. Webull is not introducing 24-hour access, and the constraints are structural:

• Orders during extended sessions must be placed as limit orders, removing market orders from the workflow.
• The additional access covers 29 underlying stocks and ETFs in total.
• Webull supports single-leg and multi-leg strategies during these hours.
• Orders tied to simultaneous stock transactions are excluded.
• For options that already trade until 4:15 p.m., the practical addition is the pre-market session rather than a longer closing window.

That last point deserves attention. Regular-session options activity already runs to 4:15 p.m. on many products, so the afternoon window largely formalizes existing access for the eligible list. The genuine capacity change sits in the morning: nearly two hours of pre-open trading in the most liquid names.

Why now?

Anthony Denier, Webull's Group President and U.S. CEO, framed the move as a response to how information reaches investors. He said that investors need tools to react to news released outside traditional trading hours.

"Expanding options trading into pre- and post-market sessions is a natural progression in the evolution of our platform, giving traders greater flexibility to manage positions and respond to new information as it emerges," Denier said.

The demand signal is real: broker adoption of Cboe's sessions has clustered within a single week, which suggests retail order flow in extended hours is large enough for platforms to treat as a competitive requirement rather than an experiment.

What comes next?

Webull plans to add selected index options and extend the service to additional markets, but it has not provided a rollout timetable. The unnamed execution venues, the limit-order-only constraint and the 29-underlying cap all leave room for revision as volumes in the new sessions build.

For now, the takeaway is plain: extended-hours options access has moved from exchange proposal to multi-broker reality, with Webull among the last majors to join.