Is the Stock Market Open on Veterans Day 2026? Yes, and Here Is What the S&P 500 Did on Every Veterans Day Since 1993

Yes. The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq are open for a full regular session on Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern. The bond market is closed for the day on SIFMA's recommendation, banks and the Federal Reserve are closed, so no cash moves and nothing settles, and that split is what makes the day odd. Across the 33 Veterans Days since 1993 the S&P 500 has been a quiet, slightly negative session: up 16 times and down 17, a median move of minus 0.03%, volume below its 20-day average on 25 of the 33, and an intraday range about two thirds of a normal day's.

This page has the hours, what the closed bond market changes for a stock trader, the data on every Veterans Day since 1993, and what to check if software trades your account that day. Columbus Day, the other day with the same split, has its own page.

What is open and closed on Veterans Day 2026

• Stocks: NYSE and Nasdaq open, full session. Veterans Day is not on the NYSE holiday calendar at all.
• Options and equity futures: open with the stock market.
• Bonds: closed. SIFMA recommends a full close for the US bond market on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, so Treasuries, corporates and munis do not trade and there is no Treasury yield print for the day.
• Banks and the Federal Reserve: closed (federal holiday). Wire transfers and ACH do not move, so a deposit sent to a broker on the 11th lands on the 12th.
• Settlement: stock trades settle the next business day, and Veterans Day is not one, so trades from Tuesday the 10th settle on Thursday the 12th. Cash from a sale on the 10th is not withdrawable until the 12th.
• Crypto: trades as always; nothing about the day changes for a Kraken or Crypto.com account (why that matters).

The rest of the 2026 calendar after that: Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 26, closed; Friday, November 27, stocks close at 1 p.m. and bonds at 2 p.m.; Thursday, December 24, stocks close at 1 p.m. and bonds at 2 p.m.; Friday, December 25, closed.

What the S&P 500 did on every Veterans Day since 1993

Measured on SPY, the S&P 500 ETF, on the day the bond market observed the holiday: November 11, or the Friday before when the 11th fell on a Saturday and the Monday after when it fell on a Sunday. 33 sessions, 1993 to 2025.

• Direction: up 16, down 17. Average minus 0.16%, median minus 0.03%. Since 2010, up 10 of 16 with an average of +0.16%.
• Size: average move 0.64% in either direction, against 0.79% for an ordinary session over the same years (0.77% for an ordinary Wednesday). Only six Veterans Days moved more than 1.5%.
• Volume: below the trailing 20-day average on 25 of 33, with a median of 78% of normal. The bond desks are away and so is a share of the equity flow that keys off them.
• Intraday range: median 0.71% high to low, against 1.06% on an ordinary day; the range was below an ordinary day's median on 21 of 33.
• The next day: average minus 0.11%, up 14 of 33. Nothing is stored up by the quiet session.
• By weekday: the nine Monday observances averaged minus 0.57% and the ten Fridays +0.17%; the four Wednesdays, which is what 2026 is, averaged +0.05%.
• The six big ones: November 11, 2008 (minus 3.1%, financial crisis), November 10, 2000 (minus 2.4%, the election-recount week), November 12, 2018 (minus 1.9%, the Apple supplier selloff), November 11, 2011 (+1.9%, the euro-crisis relief rally), November 10, 2023 (+1.6%), November 11, 2002 (minus 1.6%). Every one of them was about something else; the holiday was background.

Compared with Columbus Day, the other bonds-closed session: Columbus Day's median move is +0.1% with volume at 67% of normal, and its average size (1.08%) is inflated by October 13, 2008, the +14.5% day. Both are thin; neither has a direction worth trading.

What a closed bond market changes for a stock trader

• No rate signal. Rate-sensitive groups (banks, homebuilders, utilities, REITs) trade without the Treasury market they usually key off, which is one reason sector moves on these days tend to be small and reverse the next morning.
• Thinner books. Lower volume means wider spreads on mid-caps and small-caps, and a market order moves the price more than usual. Large-cap spreads are barely affected.
• Economic data still lands. Agencies do not publish on federal holidays, so a release scheduled for the 11th moves; in 2026 the week's data cluster is around the 12th and 13th. Check the calendar rather than assuming a quiet week.
• Cash does not move. Deposits, withdrawals and settlement all skip the day. A position sold on the 10th to fund a buy on the 11th works inside the account's buying power, not from settled cash.

If software trades your account that day

JorgAI's auto-trader runs normally on Veterans Day: the market is open, the scans run, stops and targets are enforced. Three things worth knowing. First, the momentum and discovery scans require a stock's volume to clear a liquidity floor before it is analyzed, so a thin session produces fewer candidates; that is the gate working, not a fault. Second, the stop and target on an open position are unchanged, and a thin tape makes a stop more likely to fill a few cents past its level; position size is the protection on a thin day (how a stop behaves). Third, a deposit sent that morning will not be in the account until the 12th, so a daily spend limit set against expected cash will bind early.

Members set these rules once and the platform enforces them on every session, holiday or not; the start page walks through connecting a broker. For the wider calendar effects, the pre-holiday effect covers the day before each market holiday and the seasonality post covers the months; the time-of-day post covers the open and close on an ordinary session.

Every Veterans Day session since 1993

Session date is the bond-market observed day; change is SPY close to close; volume is that day's share volume against its trailing 20-day average; range is high to low.

• Nov 11, 2025 (Tue): +0.23%, volume 75% of normal, range 0.71%, next day +0.06%.
• Nov 11, 2024 (Mon): +0.10%, volume 88% of normal, range 0.53%, next day -0.31%.
• Nov 10, 2023 (Fri): +1.56%, volume 99% of normal, range 1.64%, next day -0.10%.
• Nov 11, 2022 (Fri): +0.97%, volume 97% of normal, range 1.46%, next day -0.85%.
• Nov 11, 2021 (Thu): +0.03%, volume 61% of normal, range 0.33%, next day +0.75%.
• Nov 11, 2020 (Wed): +0.74%, volume 69% of normal, range 0.70%, next day -0.97%.
• Nov 11, 2019 (Mon): -0.19%, volume 70% of normal, range 0.41%, next day +0.21%.
• Nov 12, 2018 (Mon): -1.87%, volume 80% of normal, range 2.01%, next day -0.19%.
• Nov 10, 2017 (Fri): -0.03%, volume 100% of normal, range 0.36%, next day +0.09%.
• Nov 11, 2016 (Fri): -0.23%, volume 104% of normal, range 0.64%, next day +0.08%.
• Nov 11, 2015 (Wed): -0.39%, volume 64% of normal, range 0.62%, next day -1.40%.
• Nov 11, 2014 (Tue): +0.10%, volume 35% of normal, range 0.32%, next day -0.11%.
• Nov 11, 2013 (Mon): +0.02%, volume 54% of normal, range 0.35%, next day -0.20%.
• Nov 12, 2012 (Mon): +0.08%, volume 71% of normal, range 0.62%, next day -0.35%.
• Nov 11, 2011 (Fri): +1.88%, volume 72% of normal, range 0.95%, next day -0.95%.
• Nov 11, 2010 (Thu): -0.38%, volume 85% of normal, range 0.94%, next day -1.18%.
• Nov 11, 2009 (Wed): +0.51%, volume 79% of normal, range 1.09%, next day -1.02%.
• Nov 11, 2008 (Tue): -3.09%, volume 91% of normal, range 3.94%, next day -4.40%.
• Nov 12, 2007 (Mon): -0.99%, volume 108% of normal, range 2.03%, next day +3.05%.
• Nov 10, 2006 (Fri): +0.04%, volume 73% of normal, range 0.45%, next day +0.25%.
• Nov 11, 2005 (Fri): +0.34%, volume 45% of normal, range 1.15%, next day -0.06%.
• Nov 11, 2004 (Thu): +0.76%, volume 70% of normal, range 0.87%, next day +0.79%.
• Nov 11, 2003 (Tue): -0.03%, volume 78% of normal, range 0.51%, next day +1.12%.
• Nov 11, 2002 (Mon): -1.55%, volume 63% of normal, range 2.00%, next day +0.79%.
• Nov 12, 2001 (Mon): -0.61%, volume 120% of normal, range 2.41%, next day +2.25%.
• Nov 10, 2000 (Fri): -2.43%, volume 107% of normal, range 2.15%, next day -0.78%.
• Nov 11, 1999 (Thu): +0.57%, volume 56% of normal, range 0.75%, next day +0.90%.
• Nov 11, 1998 (Wed): -0.66%, volume 122% of normal, range 1.89%, next day -0.11%.
• Nov 11, 1997 (Tue): +0.03%, volume 47% of normal, range 1.12%, next day -2.06%.
• Nov 11, 1996 (Mon): -0.11%, volume 81% of normal, range 0.41%, next day -0.30%.
• Nov 10, 1995 (Fri): -0.05%, volume 184% of normal, range 0.66%, next day -0.11%.
• Nov 11, 1994 (Fri): -0.37%, volume 122% of normal, range 0.61%, next day +0.94%.
• Nov 11, 1993 (Thu): -0.27%, volume 27% of normal, range 0.61%, next day +0.47%.

Quick answers

Is the stock market open on Veterans Day 2026? Yes. NYSE and Nasdaq hold a full session on Wednesday, November 11, 2026. The bond market, banks and the Federal Reserve are closed.

Is the bond market closed on Veterans Day? Yes. SIFMA recommends a full close of the US bond market on November 11, 2026. Treasuries do not trade and there is no yield print.

Does the stock market usually go up on Veterans Day? No pattern: up 16 and down 17 of the 33 sessions since 1993, median minus 0.03%, with volume below normal on 25 of them and a smaller intraday range than an ordinary day.

Do stock trades settle on Veterans Day? No. It is a bank holiday, so settlement skips the day: trades from November 10 settle November 12.

Data: SPY daily adjusted close, volume, high and low from Yahoo Finance, 1993 to 2025, on the bond-market observed Veterans Day; NYSE 2026 hours and holidays from nyse.com and the US bond-market recommendations from sifma.org, both read October 27, 2026. Past sessions are not predictions. Education, not financial advice.