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CME Group has spent most of its life as the financial plumbing moving the gears behind wheat hedges, rate bets, equity futures, the quiet machinery that keeps risk moving. Now it is taking a very public step into crypto’s always-on world. On May 29, CME says it will launch 24/7 trading for its cryptocurrency futures and options on the CME Globex platform, starting at 4:00 p.m. CT, pending regulatory review. That sounds like an operational update, the kind that usually lands with a shrug. In Bitcoin land, it touches one of the longest running storylines in chart watching culture, the so-called CME gap. Bitcoin trades every hour of every day, it never sleeps. CME’s Bitcoin futures, by design, have had set trading hours, historically running from Sunday evening through Friday afternoon, with closures that leave a clean break between the last print and the next session’s open. The weekend is where the biggest discontinuity can show up on the futures chart. When Bitcoin moves during the weekend, the futures market is frozen in time. When the futures market reopens, it “catches up” in a single leap, leaving a blank space on the chart between Friday’s last trade and Sunday’s first trade. That blank space, “The CME Gap,” becomes a target, a magnet, a meme, a reason to stay up late refreshing a chart, a reason to take a small trade and feel like you are part of an inside joke. Though, in reality, most CME gaps do eventually fill. As of press time, there is still one open around $60,000… as well as one above around $85,000. CME going 24/7 changes the shape of that story. The chart gap has always been tied to the simple reality of a market closing while the underlying keeps moving. With continuous trading, that…

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