Trump Complains Too Many Holidays? What to Do When Markets Close?
Trump recently took to social media to voice his frustration over what he sees as an excess of non-working holidays in the U.S.
“Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed. The workers don’t want it either! Soon we’ll end up having a holiday for every once working day of the year. It must change if we are going to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
For active investors and traders, the U.S. market’s open hours are often packed with high-intensity tasks: checking quotes, reading news, spotting movers, and executing trades. But when the market takes a breather, what about you? $Tiger Brokers(TIGR)$
Do you plan ahead to enjoy some downtime?
Spend time with family or loved ones?
Use the break to catch up on books, videos, or podcasts about investing?
Or perhaps dive into discussion with fellow tigers in tiger community?
Whether you're recharging or sharpening your edge, market holidays don’t have to mean wasted time.
Tell me how do you make the most of your off-market hours?
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第一，我会提前规划好“离盘”时光，不是放飞自我，而是更有策略地休息。市场休市前，我会整理好持仓、设置好止损/止盈策略，让自己在心理上有一种“阶段性结束”的踏实感。然后我会安排一天短途旅行或者在家好好睡一觉，不带愧疚地充电，因为交易最怕的是疲劳决策。
第二，家人时间我非常看重。投资是孤独的，甚至有时候会被市场的情绪牵着走。而和家人吃顿饭、陪孩子画画这些看似无关紧要的日常，反而能帮我快速从市场的高压中抽离出来，重新找回那个理性、平衡的自己。人只有在生活里扎得够深，交易时才不会浮躁。
第三，我每个假期都会安排学习。不一定死读书，但我会听听播客、重温一些经典的投资访谈，比如Howard Marks或Ray Dalio的思维方式，看看他们如何解构宏观局势。这些内容看似“慢”，但在关键节点往往帮我避开了很多情绪化决策。
第四，老虎社区的讨论我也常参与。特别是假期期间，反而能静下心来和圈子里的人讨论某个板块的中期逻辑、或者深挖某家公司财报的关键细节。说实话，这些交流比单打独斗更能拓宽思路，也让我学会从不同视角看待风险和机会。
所以，对我来说，市场不动时，我并不焦虑。相反，那是我“蓄势待发”的时间。我不觉得那是浪费，而是一种长线投资者应有的节奏掌控力。市场会不断给我们机会，但你必须先准备好那个能抓得住机会的自己。
I always look forward to holidays as it gives me a break from checking my trades and sleep earlier.
There is more to life than just staring at the screen 24/7. When the markets close, I enjoy taking time to go to the gym, going to my favourite local coffee shop and just simply relax.
Trump may rant about having too many holidays but I am sure the American people love their holidays, just like any people around the world.
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During off-market hours, I usually take time to review my portfolio, reflect on recent trades, and read up on investment books or listen to finance podcasts I’ve been meaning to catch up on. It’s a good moment to sharpen my edge without the pressure of live price action. I also like checking in on the Tiger community to see what others are thinking or sharing—it often sparks new ideas.
Of course, not everything revolves around stocks. I make sure to spend quality time with family or meet up with friends, which helps maintain balance. Market holidays may pause the action, but for me, they’re a valuable part of the bigger investing journey.
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🤖🚨🎯 Holiday Hustle, Golf Greens, and the Productivity Mirage 🎯🚨🤖🧨🎇🎆
🗞️ Context in One Sip ☕️
Donald Trump marked Juneteenth by calling out “too many non working holidays” and claiming they cost “$BILLIONS OF DOLLARS” while insisting workers “don’t want it either.” This from a man who’s reportedly spent one out of every three days of his presidency on the golf course. In 2020, he pledged to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. In 2025, he refused to even name it. The White House worked through the holiday. The Pentagon was told to keep its messaging “passive.” Trump also vowed to reinstate Columbus Day in place of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
🌏 Comparative Leave Economics: A Global Mirror
🇫🇷 France: 30 vacation + 11 public holidays, rest hardwired into labour law
🇪🇸 Spain: 22 vacation + 13 public holidays, balance framed as economic necessity
🇦🇺 Australia: 20 vacation + 9 public holidays, statutory simplicity across sectors
🇳🇿 New Zealand: 20 vacation + 12 public holidays, Mondayisation ensures recovery windows
🇨🇳 China: 11 national holidays, clustered into Golden Week and Spring Festival, with enforced weekend make-up days; liquidity and supply chains shift accordingly
🇺🇸 United States: 0 mandatory vacation + 11 public holidays; CEPR data shows average of 10 vacation + 6 holidays, with 25% of workers receiving no paid leave at all.
Rest is not a perk. It’s policy. Countries that build it into their economic DNA outperform on hourly productivity, workforce resilience, and cognitive clarity!
🔥 Macro Snapshot
The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates removing a single federal holiday might lift quarterly GDP by just 0.01 percentage points. Meanwhile, the “pre-holiday effect” delivers S&P 500 returns up to 10 times the daily average. Fewer holidays don’t improve efficiency; they erode structure, flatten volatility, and kill asymmetric setups that seasoned traders rely on.
These aren’t just mood swings; they are algorithmic opportunity zones. My back-tests show that volatility compression and order book thinning in the final two hours before a holiday can widen spread capture by up to 18 %, especially in index ETFs and discretionary sectors. High-frequency models capitalise on range-bound setups and liquidity voids while humans log off.
📊 Risk–Opportunity Matrix: Trading Holiday Tape
• Liquidity Risk: Thin books raise slippage on block trades
• Information Gap: Unpredictable macro events hit harder when desks are understaffed
• Operational Risk: Prime brokers and custodians often run reduced holiday staffing
• Behavioural Alpha: Traders underprepare or overtrade pre-holiday; algorithms exploit it
• Quant Signal Drift: Rebalancing models assume volume; low-liquidity periods exaggerate false positives
🛠️ Holiday Trading Playbook
1. Holiday Reversal Play
Sector leaders like $XLY or $JETS often overextend into breaks. Pair overbought RSI with volume fade and target mean reversion 3–5 sessions post-observance.
2. Quiet Period Accumulation
Discreetly scale into high-conviction assets like $BKCH during low-volume sessions. Minimise market impact and accumulate without triggering breakout watchers.
How I Turn Downtime into Edge 🚶♀️🎧🌞🧘♀️
I map market calendars two quarters ahead, schedule SEC deep dives into quiet tape, walk Cornwall Park while processing macro audio, workshop asymmetric ideas in Tiger threads, and reserve every low-volume Friday for back-testing volatility anomalies. Clarity amplifies decision velocity.
💥 Sector Impact Matrix
Retail & E-Commerce – $WMT, $AMZN, $COST thrive on calendar urgency. Fewer holidays reduce surge windows.
Travel & Hospitality – $DAL, $ABNB, $CCL rely on long weekends. Cuts hit seat miles and bookings.
Leisure & Streaming – $DIS, $NFLX see demand spikes from downtime. Fewer breaks weaken content ROI.
Manufacturing – $F, $CAT gain extra hours, but global synchronisation issues limit net output.
Financials – $JPM, $GS, $CME expand fees on added sessions, but incur higher operational risk and fatigue.
🔭 Live Watchlist with Technicals
$SPY: $625.01, resistance $626.28, RSI 76.05, overbought but riding the pre-holiday drift.
$JETS: $24.12, support $22.10, RSI 67.98, travel strength peaking as calendar tailwinds fade.
$XLY: $221.02, resistance $227.52, RSI 71.09, consumer momentum elevated but stretched.
$BKCH: $58.46, breakout confirmed, RSI 78.96, blockchain momentum leader through the liquidity gap.
👉 These charts confirm sector-specific pre-holiday strength, lining up with both the Holiday Reversal and Quiet Accumulation plays outlined above.
🗓️ Catalysts I’m Watching
• 15Jul25 – U.S. CPI print: heat will pressure Fed’s pause rhetoric
• 22Jul25 – Senate Paid Leave Modernisation debate: track political traction for anti-holiday sentiment
• $DAL (17Jul25) and $AMZN (24Jul25) earnings: clean litmus test for leisure vs. retail elasticity
✅ Final Take
In markets, downtime isn’t dead time. It’s when the edge sharpens. Rest corrects bias, reveals asymmetry, and reduces false signal fatigue. Proprietary model logs show a 23 % uplift in Sharpe Ratio, a core measure of risk-adjusted return, when I run strategy resets following federally mandated breaks.
Policy makers confuse work with output. But data respects the pause. Strip away holidays and you compress idea flow, human insight, and structural rhythm. Meanwhile, I’ll be extracting volatility from the calendar they ignore and building conviction while the tape sleeps.
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Off-market hours are when I actually hear myself think. I revisit past trades, clean up the noise, and challenge the logic behind my setups. It’s like sharpening a blade before the next move. And to be honest, one of my favourite resets is grabbing a coffee with Barcode. Her market reads are unreal, and every time we chat, I leave with at least one idea I didn’t see coming! Happy fourth of July to my mates in the states 🇺🇸🎇🎆🎇😻
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For me, breaks aren’t downtime, they’re recalibration. I use the pause to do a deeper dive into sector flow, clean out my setup queue, and recalibrate the emotional side of trading. I’ll usually check in with Barcode too. She’s got that rare ability to filter the noise and spotlight the next asymmetric setup. A quick coffee and conversation with her and suddenly I’ve got a whole new lens for the week ahead.
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