Deutsche Börse Xetra – longer trading hours at better prices

From 1 December 2025, your Xetra trading will become significantly more flexible. The current main trading hours of 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. will be extended to include early and late trading, giving you continuous access to Europe's largest liquid trading venue from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., provided your bank or broker participates. You can see who is participating in the box on the right.

The advantages for you as a private investor:

• Longer trading hours for all securities listed on Xetra (stocks, ETFs, ETCs, ETNs)
• Fair spreads thanks to competing market makers
• Full market transparency – including through the open order book
• Executions between private investors ↔ market makers and private investors ↔ private investors
• Attractive pricing model with lower transaction fees
• Familiar security thanks to exchange monitoring and established mechanisms

Always the best Xetra price

With Xetra price improvement, you automatically secure the best available price when trading stocks, ETFs, and ETPs. Tighter spreads reduce your costs and ultimately increase your returns. In addition, transaction fees for banks and brokers are reduced—an advantage that is often passed on to you.

All you have to do is select Xetra as your trading venue when placing your order. This means that as a private investor, you will always receive at least the current Xetra price – and often even an improved price.

• Last month, private investors saved just under €1.2 million thanks to better prices (as of November 2025).
• On average, that was €7.27 per order with a better price.

It's simple: when placing your order, select Xetra as your trading venue and you will automatically receive the best price. It's easy:

1. Select Xetra in your order form.
2. You will receive at least the current Xetra price or an improved price.
3. Benefit from lower costs and higher returns.

Market makers provide private investors with buy and sell offers that may fall within the usual spreads. This means that your orders will be executed at least at the current Xetra price or better.

In addition, the transaction fees for these executions have been reduced – provided that your bank or broker participates in the service and passes on the benefit to you.

The offer applies to all approximately 1,000 stocks and 3,000 ETFs or ETPs traded on Xetra.