XTB said yesterday (Wednesday) it had started rolling out 24-hour weekday trading in selected US shares, which several rivals have offered for two years or more. The Warsaw-listed broker also opened a tax-advantaged long-term investment account in Hungary.
Both products are aimed at the clients XTB now signs up first. Shares, ETFs and Investment Plans accounted for 82.9% of first transactions by new EU clients in the first half of 2026, although CFDs still generated about 96% of the broker’s gross trading result.
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Extended hours were on the 2026 product list XTB published with its annual results, which put US markets first and European exchanges later in the year.
A Session Rivals Opened Years Earlier
The US names join close to 1,000 European stocks and ETFs that XTB moved to longer hours earlier this year. It also lengthened trading in selected French and Spanish shares to 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. CET, in line with German stocks.
Clients get access in stages and are notified in the app, where the service can be switched on or off, XTB said. Its updated terms list 582 US stocks, fractional shares included, according to a summary published by Czech personal finance site Finhacker.
Outside regular hours, a market order is executed as a limit order at the best opposing price and any unfilled part is cancelled, the terms state. XTB warned that liquidity, volatility and order execution can differ from the regular session.
Trading 212 began phasing in an overnight session on NYSE and Nasdaq stocks in March 2024 and now advertises more than 5,600 US names around the clock on weekdays, almost 10 times XTB’s list, according to its website.
Interactive Brokers has run an overnight session for about 10,000 US stocks and ETFs since 2023 through its own trading venue.
eToro, which started with 100 names in July 2025, opened every S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 stock to 24/5 trading in November.
CFD providers followed this year, with CMC Markets widening its 24/5 range to more than 5,000 shares and ETFs in July.
A Tax Wrapper for Hungarian Savers
The Hungarian product is the TBSZ, a five-year investment account. Gains become tax-free after five years and are taxed at a reduced rate in years four and five, according to XTB’s website.
Closing the account earlier means the standard 15% personal income tax plus a 13% social contribution. XTB’s version opens from HUF 25,000, has no account fee and charges no commission on shares and ETFs up to EUR 100,000 of monthly volume.
The format is growing. TBSZ accounts rose by more than a third to over 519,000 at the end of 2025, from about 386,000 a year earlier, according to data from Hungary’s central bank, the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB), cited by XTB, with assets approaching HUF 7.9 trillion.
“I am convinced that we currently have the best offer on the market there,” XTB Chief Executive Omar Arnaout said in the statement.
Estonian investment app Lightyear has offered a TBSZ it describes as free since February 2024, and Interactive Brokers also provides the account. XTB‘s own comparison table, dated July 2026, shows local banks charging maintenance and withdrawal fees.
In Poland, where the broker added IKE retirement accounts in October 2024, XTB said preparing for OKI, a new tax-advantaged account due from the start of 2027, remains one of its main priorities.
Its UK clients have had a zero-fee stocks and shares ISA since December 2024, with interest paid on uninvested cash.
This article was written by Damian Chmiel at www.financemagnates.com.BrokersRead More
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